Project Polunin

By Graham Watts, 09 December 2017

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Reviewed at The London Coliseum, London on 6 December 2017

Scriabiniana (Kasyan Goleizovsky)

Satori (Sergei Polunin)

Sergei Polunin, Dancer

Natalia Osipova, Dancer

Elisa Badenes, Dancer

Jason Reilly, Dancer

Alexei Lyubimov, Dancer

Evgenia Savarskaya, Dancer

Polunin is Rasputin: a titanic, totemic performance at the Palladium

Graham Watts, 1st June

Sergei Polunin returns to London with a mesmeric performance as Rasputin

****1

Love it. Hate it. Just don't forget it

Tatiana Rathelot, 2nd July

Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin's present a contemporary programme of works exploring the complexities of a couple's initimacy at Sadler's Wells

**111

Sergei Polunin is the best thing about the Stanislavsky Ballet's Coppelia in London

Hanna Weibye, 11th July

Coppelia is based on a story by a German (E.T.A. Hoffman’s The Sandman), was first turned into a ballet by Frenchmen (the music is by Delibes) and staged in Paris with an Italian ballerina, and was then revived and made popular by Russians. This production has choreography by another Frenchman, Roland Petit, and has been brought to London by Moscow’s Stanislavsky Ballet.

***11

Royal Ballet Triple Bill

Margaret Willis, 28th May

There was no thought of letting the Royal Ballet dancers ease out gently in their last programme of the season. The Triple Bill now on offer demands from each of its exponents a mathematical brain, the precision of a Swiss watchmaker and the stamina of a fell runner.

ENO’s Mahagonny: biting, bleak, brilliantly executed satire

David Karlin, 16th February

Never has Brecht and Weill’s satire on the inhumanity of man to man been render with such utter darkness; Simon O’Neill heads up a superb cast.

*****

Ballet Icons 20th anniversary gala offered a roster of star dancers

Amanda Jennings, 15th February

Many world class performances to enjoy in this 20th edition of the annual Ballet Icons Gala.

****1

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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.

Project Polunin: A Welcome Step Forward