Joffrey's NY gala disappoints

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 01 April 2017

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“I can’t help feeling that an opportunity was missed”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 30 March 2017

Body of your Dreams (Myles Thatcher)

Fool's Paradise (Christopher Wheeldon)

Bells (Yuri Possokhov)

Joffrey Ballet

A Manon premiere opens San Francisco Ballet’s 2025 season

Terez Rose, 24th January

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Manon is an unforgettable, stunning production – a classic well worth seeing.

****1

Broken Wings soars in SF Ballet’s Dos Mujeres

Terez Rose, 6th April

Annabel Lopez Ochoa's Broken Wings is a ballet you’ll want to see again and again, one that illuminates, empowers and soars.

****1

Charm and wit abound in San Francisco Ballet's Don Quixote

Terez Rose, 26th February

Helgi Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov's restaging of the 1869 Petipa classic brings a sunny smile to faces in San Francisco.

****1

An evening with Scottish Ballet at the Edinburgh Festival

Graham Watts, 8th August

A worthwhile addition to the locker of lockdown digital dance.

***11

Unbound Festival continues with superb dancing

Jaime Robles, 24th April

Benjamin Freemantle danced the opening solo, gorgeously, in the role of the grandfather as a dreamy young Adonis.

****1

SFB's Unbound festival delivers

Terez Rose, 21st April

Unbound by restrictions, they’ve been given free rein to create, implement and demonstrate to the world what contemporary ballet looks like. Hint: it looks great.

****1

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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.

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