Richmond Ballet

By Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 10 May 2017

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“In the contemporary pieces that fuse modern and classical dance the company fared much better”

Reviewed at Joyce Theater, New York City on 9 May 2017

Lift the Fallen (Ma Cong)

Polaris (Katarzyna Skarpetowska)

Pas Glazunov (Malcolm Burn)

Swipe (Val Caniparoli)

Richmond Ballet

Atlanta Ballet shines in a mixed contemporary program

Rebecca Ehrhardt, 3rd April

Atlanta Ballet's Golden Hour program featured two world premieres and the Atlanta premiere of Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour.

*****

North American premiere of Caniparoli's Jekyll & Hyde is gripping

Hilary Stroh, 13th October

Enthralling, intense and terrifying, yet compellingly watchable. It may send chills down the spine but it is quite brilliantly portrayed.

*****

Charm and wit abound in San Francisco Ballet's Don Quixote

Terez Rose, 26th February

Helgi Tomasson and Yuri Possokhov's restaging of the 1869 Petipa classic brings a sunny smile to faces in San Francisco.

****1

Visions of Classical (Re)Vision in San Francisco

Jaime Robles, 11th February

“Your love affair with ballet, your time with ballet, is short,” explains Welsh about his ballet Bespoke, “Eventually you lay down, and dance keeps moving. It’s a bittersweet thing.”

****1

Distinctly SF

Terez Rose, 15th February

San Francisco Ballet delivers the distinct and the relevant in a mixed-bill program of choreographic works that includes Ghosts in the Machine.

****1

Ballet West, The Joyce

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 13th October

Once again, kudos to Adam Sklute and Ballet West for putting on a program of mostly new or recent works created for the company.

***11

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Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn

Andrew is currently a professional chef in New York City but he began life as a ballet dancer with the Hartford and Ohio Ballet companies. His writing also appears on the Huffington Post Blog and BroadwayWorld.com. His latest work, nominated for a James Beard Award, is “Return to the Rivers”, a Himalayan cookbook.

Richmond Ballet disappoints at the Joyce