Polish National Ballet: Anna Hop's Pinokio is a great achievement

Polish National Ballet in Anna Hop's Pinokio

By Graham Watts, 23 April 2024

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“excellent repetitive choreographic motifs illustrate these theatrical scenes”

Reviewed at Teatr Wielki, Warsaw on 21 April 2024

Pinocchio (World Premiere) (Anna Hop)

Polish National Ballet

Marta Kluczyńska, Conductor

Krzysztof Pastor, Director

Małgorzata Szabłowska, Set Designer, Lighting Designer

Katarzyna Rott, Costume Designer

Orchestra of the Teatr Wielki

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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.