Scapino Ballet's The Great Bean

By Lambrecht Wessels, 16 February 2014

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Reviewed at Theater Rotterdam Schouwburg, Rotterdam on 13 February 2014

The Great Bean (Ed Wubbe, Fang-Yu Shen, Felix Landerer)

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Lambrecht Wessels

Lambrecht Wessels is a conflict analyst, publicist and avid dance fan living in Amsterdam. He writes about modern and classical dance, and follows Dutch National Ballet and the Netherlands Dance Theater especially. But he also visits dance performances in Belgium, the UK and Scandinavia.

Scapino Ballet's 1920s spectacle The Great Bean