TanzLuzern's Swan – a Different Story: without a bird in sight

TanzLuzern in Yabin Wang's Swan - A Different Story

By Graham Watts, 10 May 2023

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“the poignancy of his expressiveness, encapsulating the alienation and loneliness of the creature”

Reviewed at Luzerner Theater, Lucerne on 5 May 2023

Swan, a Different Story (Yabin Wang)

TanzLuzern

Jesse Wong, Conductor

Sascha Thomsen, Costume Designer

Clemens Gorzella, Lighting Designer

Lucerne Symphony Orchestra

Yabin Wang, Dancer

Tanaka Roki, Dancer

Flavio Quisisana, Dancer

Valeria Marangelli, Dancer

Phoebe Jewitt, Dancer

She Said: Female Choreographers find voice

Rym Kechacha, 13th April

The enduring power of the female voice in dance at ENB

****1

Genesis: Light from Darkness

Shelley Pinto-Duschinsky, 28th September

Life renews itself and DNA may take us beyond the human experiment and into the unknown.

****1

TanzLuzern in HOPE: outstanding double bill of new works

Graham Watts, 8th November

Two complementary new works for TanzLuzern, Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer and Phoebe Jewitt's White Rabbit, are striking and memorable additions to the repertoire.

*****

Beat Furrers Musiktheater Begehren am Lucerne Festival

Thomas Schacher, 1st September

Der Mythos von Orpheus und Eurydike wird in Beat Furrers Musiktheaterstück auf eine allgemeine Ebene gehoben. Der Mann und die Frau finden keine gemeinsame Sprache, keinen Ort der Begegnung.

****1

The Australian Ballet does Romeo and Juliet: precision over passion

Katie Lawrence, 24th April

This revival of Romeo and Juliet combines vivid staging and technical leads, but the lover's careful partnership lacks the volatility that makes young love convincing and tragedy believable.

***11

Acosta's Don Quixote for BRB: polished but not quite enough panache

Jonathan Gray, 23rd April

Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote for Birmingham Royal Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells with polished but low-key interpretations across the board.

***11

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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.