Daniel Proietto's RASA premieres at Ballet Vlaanderen

By Graham Watts, 10 February 2020

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“dance theatre on an epic, operatic scale”

Reviewed at Opera Vlaanderen, Ghent, Ghent on 7 February 2020

Rasa (after La Bayadère) (Daniel Proietto)

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Benjamin Haemhouts, Conductor

Nicolás Boni, Set Designer

Tamae Hirokawa, Costume Designer

Martin Flack, Lighting Designer, Video

Casco Phil

Morgan Lugo, Dancer

Matt Foley, Dancer

Guido Belcanto, Vocals

Mikio Kato, Dancer

Nicha Rodboon, Dancer

Zoë Ashe-Browne, Dancer

Dominic Harrison, Dancer

Anaïs De Caster, Dancer

Nicola Wills, Dancer

Morgana Cappellari, Dancer

Ruka Nakagawa, Dancer

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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.

RASA, Daniel Proietto’s deconstruction of La Bayadère, premieres at Ballet Vlaanderen