Pictures at an exhibition: Ballet Pécs premieres Vasarely Etudes

By Graham Watts, 02 June 2021

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Reviewed at Müpa: Festival Theatre, Budapest on 28 May 2021

Vasarely Etudes (world premiere) (Balázs Vincze, Katalin Ujvári, Molnár Zsolt)

Ballet Pécs

Balázs Cziegler, Set Designer

Fruzsina Nagy, Costume Designer

Miklós Hepkó, Lighting Designer

Balázs Vincze, Lighting Designer

Iván Kamarás, Dancer

Atilla Kiss B, Dancer

Teodóra Uhrik, Dancer

Éva Vári, Dancer

Anna Györfi, Vocals

Tamás Kéméndi, Accordion

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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.