Deferred Debuts, and Deferred Reviews

American Ballet Theatre's Deferred  2020 Role Debuts; Reviews of Skylar Brandt's Giselle and Sarah Lane's Odette/Odile May 28, 2020 Jerry Ho…

A Deep Dive into Swan Lake

One of CriticalDance’s regular contributors, Carla DeFord, has written an essay that discusses the Grand Pas de Deux from Act 2 of "Swan Lake," includi…

New York City Ballet: Winter 2020

New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York January 23, 2020: Danses Concertantes, Monumentum pro Gesualdo, Move…

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Of Swans and Men

Matthew Bourne / New Adventures City Center New York, New York January 31, 2020 Swan Lake Jerry Hochman I tend to overuse appreciative adje…

Shanghai Ballet: A Grand Grand Swan Lake

Shanghai Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center New York, New York January 17, 2020 Grand Swan Lake Jerry Hochman The dictionary mean…

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: A New Adventures Production

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts  Opera House Washington, DC January 22, 2020 Carmel Morgan I came to Matthew Bourne’s Swa…

American Ballet Theatre: Swan Lake

Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts Vienna, Virginia July 13, 2019 Carmel Morgan On July 13, 2019, I caught the third and final p…

American Ballet Theatre: Three Beauties, Two Swans, and a Bell

American Ballet Theatre Metropolitan Opera House Lincoln Center New York, New York June 25 and 26 afternoon; July 1, 2, 3 afternoon, and 5, 2019 …

English National Ballet: Swan Lake

London Coliseum 4 January 2019 Maggie Foyer Derek Deane’s Swan Lake is a truly magical experience. It ticks all the right boxes and gets to t…