American Ballet Theatre: Shostakovich Trilogy (Symphony #9, Chamber Symphony, Piano Concerto #1)
Metropolitan Opera House, New York; May 31, 2013 David Mead American Ballet Theatre Artist-in-Residence Alexi Ratmansky clearly has quite an …
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“A Bit Like A First Date”: Talking with Boston Ballet’s Mikko Nissinen
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen talks to David Mead about the company’s London visit and more This summer Boston Ballet, celebrat…
Birmingham Royal Ballet 2013-2014 season
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s 2013/2014 season at the Birmingham Hippodrome season, the 24th season at its home theatre in the Midlands, sees the welcome r…
English National Ballet Spring-Summer 2014 season and performances at the Barbican
As part of English National Ballet’s 2014 Spring-Summer season, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett will all create new works for English N…
Verve 13: Night Time, Instructions to the Animal, Resurgence, Shuffle
Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London; May 24, 2013 David Mead It is right that postgraduate companies should be about the dancers, a…
New York City Ballet announces 2013-14 season
New York City Ballet has announced details of the 2013-14 New York City seasons, highlights of which include world premieres by Angelin Preljocaj on Se…
Bern Ballett: Hexenhatz (Witch-hunt)
Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, London; May 22, 2013 David Mead Six years have passed since Marston’s “Firebird”, her debut work a…
American Ballet Theatre: Don Quixote
Metropolitan Opera House, New York; May 29, 2013 David Mead Is there a more inappropriately named ballet that “Don Quixote”? After all, it is…
Agony and Ecstasy: My Life in Dance – Daria Klimentova with Graham Watts
Charlotte Kasner Daria Klimentova is an interesting dancer. Her name would not trip off the tongue of even some ballet fans. So many seem to be brou…