No slim pickings at Dutch National Ballet's “New Moves”

By Lambrecht Wessels, 05 July 2019

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Reviewed at Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam on 1 July 2019

Lights on (Bastiaan Stoop)

Word er maar moe van (Bastiaan Stoop)

La Vida (Yvonne Slingerland, Michele Esposito)

Hom(m)e (Olivia Lecomte)

Affinity (Peter Leung)

Double Violin (Cristiano Principato)

Flower Duet (Cristiano Principato)

Dutch National Ballet

Giovanni Princic, Dancer

Michele Esposito, Dancer

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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.