Interview: Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s Artistic Director – bringing the art of ballet forward
Ann Haskins talks to Tamara Rojo as she begins her third season as Artistic Director of San Francisco Ballet.
Frankenstein
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12 of the best in 2024 – fascinating memories from my year in dance
Graham Watts looks back at a year in dance and the 135 performances he saw in 2024. He picks out a dozen of the best.
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Review: Les Étoiles gala in Milan – 21 dancers, 17 pieces, 3 hours of starry dance
Graham Spicer sees the Les Étoiles galas in Milan with ballet stars in thrilling pas de deux and seductive modern repertoire.
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Tamara Rojo announces San Francisco Ballet’s 2024–2025 Season
San Francisco Ballet’s new season includes “high-drama story ballets, inventive contemporary voices, and works rarely seen by US audiences”.
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[Review] Mark Bruce Company in Frankenstein and Liberation Day
Matthew Paluch sees the Mark Bruce Company’s double bill in London – Frankenstein and Liberation Day.
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The Place announces its 2024 Spring Season
The Place – London’s centre for dance performance and creation for over 50 years – has announced its spring 2024 season.
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[Interview] The authentic and passionate Laura Morera – a career without limits
Laura Morera talks about her Royal Ballet career, the roles had and lost, dancing Ashton, and her “artistic love story” with choreographer Liam Scarlett.
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[Review] The return of Akram Khan’s Creature – Jeffrey Cirio galvanises a baffling ballet
Jeffrey Cirio as Creature gives a magnificent performance, but the scenario “is overloading a wordless dance form with more weight than it can bear”.
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English National Ballet announces 2019-2020 70th Anniversary Season
70th Anniversary celebrations 2020 marks English National Ballet’s 70th Anniversary with celebrations taking place throughout the 2019-2020 Season that give opportunities for the Company to say, ‘Thank You’ to its audiences, fans, friends and partners. The 70th Anniversary will be celebrated with three special Gala performances at the London Coliseum featuring extracts from a diverse…
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Photo Album: tonight’s opening cast of Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Liam Scarlett‘s first full-length ballet is revived for the first time running from tonight, 5 March 2019 until 23 March. Victor Frankenstein is played by Federico Bonelli, Elizabeth by Laura Morera, and The Creature is Wei Wang. Scarlett’s production uses music by Lowell Liebermann with magnificent designs from John Macfarlane, beautifully and dramatically lit…
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Critics Round-up: Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
In 2006 Monica Mason decided to go back to the beginning with the Royal Ballet‘s signature ballet, The Sleeping Beauty: consign the 2003 Makarova disaster (“dramatically shapeless and emotionally flat” said The Times) to the dustbins, and restore Oliver Messel’s 1946 production. That was the year that the Vic-Wells Ballet moved to the Royal Opera House. There has…
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Haley Joel Osment drawn back to the dead
Twelve years after The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment has returned to frequent dead people. This time around, he’s using them as science projects. Osment will star in “Wake the Dead”, an upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. Based on Steven Niles’ Frankenstein-themed graphic novels, Osment will play Victor Franklin, a college student morbidly experimenting…
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Tamara Rojo interview: “I start from zero – I go back to the steps to find all the feelings again”
Five minutes in the company of Tamara Rojo and you don’t just want to interview her: you want her to be your best friend. Funny, clever, phenomenally articulate, she responds to each question with excitement, wit, fury and intelligence – and so begins The Telegraph‘s long interview with the Royal Ballet star. Rojo on returning to…
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“Ideas batter me like hailstones. Who am I?” – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Frankenstein, the play, directed by Danny Boyle, is just the latest in an almost innumerable sequence of stage, television and film versions of Shelley’s book. Ever since it was published, almost 200 years ago, arty types in theatre, movies and television, have found the story of Frankenstein’s act of life-giving irresistible. Boyle’s Frankenstein for the…
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Mel Brooks actor Kenneth Mars dies at 75
Kenneth Mars, a Mel Brooks collaborator who played a Hitler-worshipping playwright in “The Producers” and an earnest police inspector with a malfunctioning artificial arm in “Young Frankenstein“, has died at 75. Mars had been on Broadway and appeared in several hit TV shows (“Get Smart”, “Gunsmoke”) when he was cast as the Hitler-worshiping playwright in…
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All I ask is the possibility of love! – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
The beginning of February sees what must be one of the most highly anticipated productions of 2011 – Frankenstein, directed by Danny ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Boyale at London‘s National Theatre. It is an adaptation by Nick Dear based on Mary Shelley‘s novel. I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light…
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