Pure dance with joyful power

By Graham Watts, 09 June 2019

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“Few choreographers have the courage to let their dance say it all”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 7 June 2019

Your Flesh shall be a Great Poem (Trey McIntyre)

Bound To (Christopher Wheeldon)

Anima Animus (David Dawson)

San Francisco Ballet

Yuan Yuan Tan, Dancer

Carlo Di Lanno, Dancer

Lonnie Weeks, Dancer

Benjamin Freemantle, Dancer

Royal Ballet Sinfonia

Philosophy amid movement in San Francisco Ballet’s Dance Innovations

Terez Rose, 13th February

The ballet culminates with fouettés, bravura leaps from the oversized ensemble and a rousing finish with all 44 dancers onstage. It was an exuberant end to an intelligent, satisfying production, both of thought and movement.

****1

The solace of love in San Francisco Ballet’s Program 5: Lyric Voices

Jaime Robles, 27th March

There is a kind of purity to Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem, and a very human sense of longing and loss.

****1

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

Harlem, Funk and a bit of Schubert

Hilary Stroh, 7th March

It’s not about being on the biggest stage that matters, but what you do on any stage at all – dance like there is no-one watching. But, happily in this case, we are.

****1

Bowie and Queen at the ballet

Hilary Stroh, 5th May

Dazzling pop-ballet 'Bowie and Queen' marks Company Director's grand finale

*****

Angel Corella’s Pennsylvania Ballet at the Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 29th March

Pennsylvania Ballet looked very good in this opening show, their first in New York since Angel Corella took over as Artistic Director

***11

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

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