The Joyce Ballet Festival: Royal Ballet Stars, and Spencerian Ignorance
The Joyce Ballet Festival The Joyce Theater New York, New York August 6, 10, 13, and 16, 2019 Program A: Asphodel Meadows Pas de Deux, Dance of t…
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American Ballet Theatre: Manon Returns
[This review is an expansion of an "instant" review initially published in CriticalDance’s “First Impressions” section shortly after the referenced per…
English National Ballet: Manon
London Coliseum 19 January 2019 Maggie Foyer Manon Lescaut is a cruel tale of vice and venality salvaged by a love that grows stronger throug…
English National Ballet: Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty
London Coliseum 6 June 2018 Maggie Foyer This is a Sleeping Beauty to make you believe in fairies as the timeless, ageless Alina Cojocaru spr…
Estonian National Ballet, “Silent Monologues” and “Song of the Earth”
Estonia Opera House Tallinn 6th November 2016 Stuart Sweeney Estonian National Ballet’s new double bill featured Toomas Edur’s Silent Monologues …
American Ballet Theatre: Romeo and Juliet
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, Vienna, Virginia July 14, 2016 Carmel Morgan In 1985, American Ballet Theatre (“ABT”) premier…