Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo dazzle in a new triple bill

Alexandre Joaquim and Michele Esposito in Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in Christopher Wheeldon's Within the Golden Hour

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in Sharon Eyal's Autodance

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in Jean-Christophe Maillot's Vers un pays sage

Juliette Klein and Jaeyong An in Jean-Christophe Maillot's Vers un pays sage

By Deborah Weiss, 25 April 2024

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“the element of not being pretty, but being bold. Extraordinary!”

Reviewed at Grimaldi Forum: Salle des Princes, Monaco on 24 April 2024

Within the Golden Hour (Christopher Wheeldon)

Autodance (Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar)

Vers un Pays Sage (Jean-Christophe Maillot)

Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Jean-Christophe Maillot, Director

Jasper Conran, Costume Designer

Peter Mumford, Lighting Designer

Musiciens de l'Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

Rebecca Hytting, Costume Designer

Alon Cohen, Lighting Designer

Dominique Drillot, Lighting Designer

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.

*****

NYCB: Ratmansky’s The Naked King is not satire, but good fun

Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

****1

The Royal Ballet’s Like Water for Chocolate is sumptuous but complex

Amanda Jennings, 1st October

The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

****1

Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Kathy Elgin, 4th July

Ballet Nights is more than an evening of party pieces: it showcases emerging talent alongside older favourites and, in the case of this first Scottish outing, has an eye to local tradition.

****1

ABT in Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale: CliffsNotes Shakespeare

Ivy Lin, 2nd July

Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale is a sumptuous looking production but on this occasion, it didn’t come to life emotionally.

***11

Wheeldon’s Alice: The Royal Ballet shines in a vehicle of excellence

Amanda Jennings, 13th June

Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland shows off The Royal Ballet's roster of supreme dance actors in every version of technical wizardry and comic incarnation.

****1

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Deborah Weiss

Deb joined Bachtrack in 2022 and commissions reviews and writing on ballet and dance. She was Royal Ballet School-trained and is a former principal dancer for companies including London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet) and Bayerisches Staatsballett. She has been writing for more than 30 years – publications have included Dancing Times, DanceTabs, Dance for You and Dance Europe. She also interviews for Voices of British Ballet, an oral archive of people who have worked in the industry in the UK. In addition to her writing, since 2016 she has been facilitating programmes that support victims of domestic abuse. Deb is passionate about her rescue dog, Bruce, and daughters (not in that order), swims a mile at least five days a week and is an avid reader.

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