Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: Bayadère – The Ninth Life

By Graham Watts, 18 October 2017

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“continued to occupy my thoughts, long after the curtain call”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 16 October 2017

Bayadère - The Ninth Life (Shobana Jeyasingh)

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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.