Ballet Black Triple Bill, London

By Cristina de Lucas, 28 February 2014

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Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 27 February 2014

Egal (Robert Binet)

Dopamine (you make my levels go silly) (Ludovic Ondiviela)

The One Played Twice (Javier De Frutos)

War Letters (Christopher Marney)

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Corps shines in National Ballet of Canada’s Swan Lake

Gianmarco Segato, 8th March

In the first revival of National Ballet of Canada's 2022 Swan Lake, a strong corps de ballet and star turn by Genevieve Penn Nabity almost overcome a muddled visual concept.

***11

San Francisco Ballet's 85th Season Gala

Carla Escoda, 18th January

San Francisco Ballet gives a rousing account of Justin Peck's ground-breaking Rodeo, newcomers Ana Sophia Scheller and Ulrik Birkkjær make waves, and Carlo DiLanno wins my vote for MVP at this season's gala.

***11

The Royal Ballet: Meta/Void and Fire

Graham Watts, 10th November

Two fast-emerging dance makers presented strong new work that has benefitted from Wayne McGregor's mentoring role as The Royal Ballet's resident choreographer.

***11

NYCB's contemporary makers

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 16th October

NYC Ballet's fashion-forward program of five new works helps to keep things interesting.

***11

Dutch National Ballet, Junior Company

Isabella Zijp, 6th February

The young talents from Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company showed themselves to the public in an exciting mixed programme of well-performed classics and interesting new works.

****1

New lines on the dancefloor: New work with Wayne McGregor | Random Dance at Kings Place

Jaime Robles, 20th September

I was fortunate to see Wayne McGregor’s choreography set on the San Francisco Ballet several years back, so I was eager to see Random Works, which was performed this past weekend in Kings Place’s Hall One. Random Works wasn’t McGregor’s choreography, but rather the work of ten young choreographers. McGregor is listed as the programme’s curator.

****1

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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.

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