Ballet dances on in Rome with two new Baroque-inspired creations

By Jenifer Sarver, 17 January 2021

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“a feeling that imminent flight away into a more comforting world might be possible”

Reviewed at Rome Convention Center La Nuvola, Rome on 16 January 2021

Vivaldi Suite (Michele Merola)

Baroque Suite (Benjamin Pech, Eleonora Abbagnato)

Ballo del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Andrea Miglio, Set Designer

Anna Biagiotti, Costume Designer

Fabrizio Marinelli, Lighting Designer

Claudio Cocino, Dancer

Annalisa Cianci, Dancer

Rebecca Bianchi, Dancer

Giovanni Bella, Dancer

Ballet Icons 20th anniversary gala offered a roster of star dancers

Amanda Jennings, 15th February

Many world class performances to enjoy in this 20th edition of the annual Ballet Icons Gala.

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Un programme d'exception à Garnier

Laurine Mortha, 25th October

La musique de Stravinsky aurait pu être la ligne directrice de cette soirée, qui débutait avec Agon et se terminait par le Sacre du Printemps (version Pina Bausch). Mais Grand Miroir, la nouvelle création de Saburo Teshigawara, suspend le fil musical de Stravinsky par une parenthèse plus méditative : le Violin Concerto composé et dirigé par Esa-Pekka Salonen.

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Soirée William Forsythe à Garnier

Laurine Mortha, 4th July

Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris clôture la saison 2015/2016 par une soirée consacrée au chorégraphe néoclassique américain William Forsythe, avec l’entrée au répertoire d’Of Any If And (1995), suivi d’Approximate Sonata (1996) et d’une création, Blake Works I, sur la musique de l’artiste électro-soul James Blake.

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Reaching for the light: Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson's Adam's Passion

Alissa Balocco, 31st March

For the first time in Italy the opera that brings together the spiritual music of the Estonian composer and the minimalist direction of Robert Wilson.

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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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Jenifer Sarver

Jenifer Sarver was the first American to be hired as soloist with the ballet of the Teatr Wielki in Lodz, Poland, and has also been a soloist with Ireland’s Cork City Ballet, a member of the Slovene National Ballet (Maribor, Slovenia), the Opera na Zamku (Szczecin, Poland), the San Diego Ballet and the California Ballet. Ms. Sarver has also been a guest principal dancer and performed the complete classical repertoire. She has enjoyed two full-time assistant professorships, served as an artistic director for a regional ballet company and taught, choreographed and set repertoire all over the world.