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Blistering good form: John Neumeier's Nijinsky Gala XLVIII

John Neumeier walks among his dancers in Gustav Mahler's Third Symphony
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Qui Yunting and Li Wentao in Fei Bo's One Thought for a Lifetime
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Anna Laudere and Edvin Revazov in Neumeier's Orphée et Eurydice
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Ida Praetorius, Alessandro Frola and Jacopo Bellussi in Neumeier's Pizzicato-Polka
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Ensemble des Taras Shevchenko National Opera and Ballet Theater of Ukraine in Spring and Fall
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Hamburg Ballett in Neumeier's Shall We Dance
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“It was a moment of theatrical brilliance as the curtain lowered”
Reviewed at Hamburgische Staatsoper: Main Hall, Hamburg on 9 July 2023
Hamburg Ballet
John Neumeier, Lighting Designer
Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg
Francesco Gabriele Frola, Dancer
Alessandro Frola, Dancer
Ida Praetorius, Dancer
Jacopo Bellussi, Dancer
Alina Cojocaru, Dancer
Akimi Denda, Dancer
Dan Tsukamoto, Dancer
Qui Yunting, Dancer
Li Wentao, Dancer
Dorothée Gilbert, Dancer
Hugo Marchand, Dancer
Aleix Martinez, Dancer
Edvin Revazov, Dancer
Anna Laudere, Dancer
Atte Kilpinen, Dancer
Madoka Sugai, Dancer
Alexandr Trusch, Dancer
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****1
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****1
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*****
Northern Ballet’s Gentleman Jack: brave but bland at Sadler’s Wells
***11
Tap City at the Joyce Theater: an exercise in nostalgia
****1
BalletBoyz: Still Pointless at 25 and still making it work!
****1
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