A showcase for Ukrainian ballet at Sadler's Wells

By Graham Watts, 08 September 2021

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“de Froberville returned to partner Francesco Gabriele Frola in a fizzing Diana and Actaeon showpiece”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 7 September 2021

System A/I (World premiere) (Ludovic Ondiviela)

Grand Pas Classique (Victor Gsovsky)

Suite en Blanc (Serge Lifar)

Le Corsaire (excerpt) (Marius Petipa)

Lisova Pisnya (The Forest Song) (Adagio) (Vakhtang Vronsky)

The Dying Swan (Mikhail Fokine)

La Bayadère (excerpt) (Marius Petipa)

Five Tangos (Hans van Manen)

Diana and Actaeon (excerpt) (Agrippina Vaganova)

Taras Bulba (Gopak) (Rostislav Zakharov)

Don Quixote (suite) (Marius Petipa)

National Ballet of Ukraine

Alexander Ingram, Conductor

Matthew Ball, Dancer

Mayara Magri, Dancer

Denys Cherevychko, Dancer

Natalia de Froberville, Dancer

Olesia Shaytanova, Dancer

Christine Shevchenko, Dancer

Isaac Hernández, Dancer

Cesar Corrales, Dancer

Leo Dixon, Dancer

Yuliia Moskalenko, Dancer

Volodymyr Kutuzov, Dancer

Daniil Silkin, Dancer

Anna Muromtseva, Dancer

Fernando Montaño, Dancer

Francesco Gabriele Frola, Dancer

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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.