Stuttgart Ballet's Wayfarers

By Naomi Mori, 08 June 2014

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Reviewed at Staatsoper Stuttgart, Stuttgart on 3 June 2014

New Work (World premiere) (Edward Clug, Demis Volpi)

Song of a Wayfarer (Maurice Béjart)

New Work (World premiere) (Edward Clug, Demis Volpi)

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****1

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Henrick Ibsen’s tragic figure is given a stunning interpretation by Romanian choreographer Edward Clug, who underscores the power of love.

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A slippery end for Sacre in Zurich double bill

Sarah Batschelet, 29th October

In Zurich, two sensational ballets by choreographers Johann Inger and Edward Clug pull out all the stops... including those on the water hoses.

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Zurich Ballet returns for Chamber Minds and Walking Mad

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An audience limited to 50 people watched Zurich Ballet perform Edward Clug’s electrifying Chamber Minds and Johan Inger's Vaudevillian *Walking Mad*.

****1

Freshly hatched: Gauthier Dance's Dying Swans Project

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A very mixed set of filmed solos themed around The Dying Swan, although this link was often tenuous.

***11

Musicians and dancers unite for Ravenna’s reimagined dance event

Sarah Kirkup, 18th July

Beatrice Rana and Mario Brunello provide live music for seven internationally renowned dancers, including Paris Opéra Ballet’s Hugo Marchand and Spanish flamenco whizz Sergio Bernal, at the 15th-century Rocca Brancaleone.

****1

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Naomi Mori

Naomi is a blogger living in Tokyo and travels frequently to see ballet. She is a law graduate of Waseda University and a former film publicist, film critic and IT business researcher/strategist. She blogs at La Dolce Vita in Japanese. She tweets about ballet as @naomip_86. and takes ballet class regularly