Freshly hatched: Gauthier Dance's Dying Swans Project

By Graham Watts, 20 April 2021

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“a superb summary of the psychological frustrations of a solitary pandemic lockdown”

Reviewed at Theaterhaus, Stuttgart on 16 April 2021

la Cigna (World premiere) (Mauro Bigonzetti)

Flatternd (World premiere) (Bridget Breiner)

Off White (World premiere) (Virginie Brunelle)

Silent Swan (World premiere) (Kinsun Chan)

drops (World premiere) (Edward Clug)

Fallen Wings (World premiere) (Dominique Dumais)

AELLΩ (World premiere) (Andonis Foniadakis)

Emovere (World premiere) (Itzik Galili)

Covid Cage (World premiere) (Eric Gauthier)

Kamma (World premiere) (Smadar Goshen)

Taleb’s Theory (World premiere) (Anita Hanke)

Swanny Side of Life (World premiere) (Guillaume Hulot)

Oblong Blur (World premiere) (Nicki Liszta)

all tomorrow's parties (World premiere) (Constanza Macras)

We Were Many (World premiere) (Kevin O'Day)

Oloris Oram (World premiere) (Elisabeth Schilling)

Gauthier Dance

Garazi Perez Oloriz, Dancer

Nora Brown, Dancer

Barbara Melo Freire, Dancer

Bruna Andrade, Dancer

Alessio Marchini, Dancer

Shori Yamamoto, Dancer

Anneleen Dedroog, Dancer

Izabela Szylinska, Dancer

Andrew Cummings, Dancer

Theophilus Veselý, Dancer

Shawn Wu, Dancer

Jonathan dos Santos, Dancer

Louiza Avraam, Dancer

Sidney Elizabeth Turtschi, Dancer

Luca Pannacci, Dancer

Mark Sampson, Dancer

Czech National Ballet's Scheherazade: a fresh take on an old tale

Graham Watts, 28th November

A modern twist on an ancient tale, Mauro Bigonzetti's new Scheherazade brings challenging and innovative choreography to make this a highly enjoyable production.

****1

Petipa Awards Gala: thrilling theatrics and star turns!

Margaret Willis, 23rd September

A shimmering smorgasbord of some of today’s most exciting international dancers, who performed pristine works by Petipa.

****1

Ratmansky's Russian Seasons the crown jewel in NYCB's mixed bill

Ivy Lin, 25th September

NYCB has always had a mission to present new works and Saturday's program included Amaria, a creation by Mauro Bigonzetti for retiring ballerina Maria Kowroski.

***11

Icy chic: Svetlana Zakharova as Coco Chanel

Mark Pullinger, 4th December

Modanse, a double bill designed for the star Bolshoi ballerina, disappoints at the London Coliseum.

**111

New York City Ballet kicks off its spring season

Ivy Lin, 23rd April

A triple bill of 21st-century ballets at the Koch Theater sees the return of Alexei Ratmansky's masterpiece, Pictures at an Exhibition.

*****

Context: Diana Vishneva's tour de force

Alexandra Desvignes, 12th March

Under the artistic leadership of ballerina extraordinaire Diana Vishneva, Context, a showcase of Russian contemporary choreography, sees it UK premiere at London Sadler's Wells.

*****

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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.

Freshly hatched: 16 new choreographies in Gauthier Dance's Dying Swans Project