This entry from the Lincoln Center at the Movies series celebrates one of the nation’s premier modern dance companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, which was formed in New York by Ailey in 1958 and showcases African-American performers. Serving up…
The Royal Shakespeare Company‘s award-winning production of Hamlet, directed by Gregory Doran, stars David Tennant in the title role. Shot on location at a disused Jesuit seminary in north London, this screen version of one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies retains…
He may have whittled things down to four characters and kept it short but Tony Fabre‘s Histoire d’eux, inspired by the Greek myth of Dido and Aeneas has much to admire. It’s a beautifully played out picture of the couple.…
A dance experience for our virtual times: with “Beethoven-Ballets”, Stuttgart Ballet paid homage to the famous composer in a live-streamed performance. Choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti delights in these extremes and the irrepressible power that lie in Beethoven’s music. “I know many…
It is with great pomp and with two of its major pieces that the Opera Ballet celebrates the centenary of the birth of the American choreographer Merce Cunningham. First by taking over its Summerspace, then by bringing Exchange to the…
4 years after the announcement of his withdrawal from the artistic scene, the emblematic contemporary choreographer Mats Ek, is back at Palais Garnier! Mats Ek is proposing a new ballet piece, “Another Place”, a 35-minute pas de deux created at…
For the opening of the season of the Geneva Ballet, Skid by Damien Jalet, the company’s new associate artist, and the world premiere of Ukiyo-e by its director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, will bring into play the forces that give way…
Scola’s wordless musical-dance extravaganza traces the life of a ballroom from 1936 to the present. While couples meet, steal kisses, and separate, events in the world outside are echoed in their mimetic rituals and groupings; for the film is clearly…
Scene One: Butter Week (Shrovetide) CarnivalScene Two: Petrouchka’s CellScene Three: The Moor’s RoomScene Four: Butter Week Carnival (towards evening) Original authorial version During the Butter Week (Shrovetide) revelry an old Charlatan, of Eastern mien, displays his puppets who have come…
Joseph Sturdy about Sonatra: I was interested to look at the classical technique, to awaken it and enjoy itWhen Joseph Sturdy was asked to choreograph a work for the Royal Swedish Ballet, he accepted the challenge with alacrity. ‘I admired…
