The 69th record-breaking edition of the Spoleto Festival, the first under the leadership of the new Artistic Director Daniele Cipriani, draws to a close this evening.
The complete presentation, calendar and production details of the full Royal Opera 2026-2027 Season.
Lydia Wharf sees Alexander Whitley’s double bill and appreciates his rich, interesting vocabulary, but, although enjoyable, she remains disappointed.
Graham Spicer sees Compagnia Zappalà Danza – “painstakingly curated works performed by dancers of talent and great dedication”
The Dance Section of the UK Critics’ Circle announces its short-listed nominations for the National Dance Awards (#NDA24).
New Movement Collective’s Les Noces – The Departure: “The real deal. They bring such experience and expertise that one can only respect whatever they do.”
There’s a buzz in the air… The Our Voices triple bill at Sadler’s Wells feels like the arrival of a different English National Ballet.
Seeta Patel’s work “marries Indian classical dance and Western classical music”. In The Rite of Spring the connection with the music is incredibly potent.
Award-winning South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo and her company explore The Sacrifice, in a new, hour-long production.
Israel Galván’s brilliant Rite of Spring combines superb Flamenco technique with his own flexible and highly idiosyncratic style of dancing.
English National Ballet returns to Sadler’s Wells with a new triple bill (but no artistic director): Ek/ Forsythe/ Quagebeur.
Wayne McGregor’s double-bill of AfteRite (The Rite of Spring) and LORE (Les noces) at La Scala is exciting, surprising, and thought-provoking.
Today is the 140th anniversary of the birth of Stravinsky, so the perfect day to meet Wayne McGregor to talk about his new Stravinsky programme.
February’s edition of Dancing Times looks at two new productions (ENB’s Raymonda and La Scala’s La Bayadère) as well as other reviews, articles and interviews.
A captivating programme of dance dedicated to Igor Stravinsky on the 50th anniversary of his death launched the dance season at this year’s Nervi Music Ballet Festival.
Uwe Scholz’s Rite of Spring will be danced by Davide Dato, principal at Vienna State Ballet, and staged by the work’s original dancer Giovanni di Palma.
Nervi Music Ballet Festival 2021 celebrates the 50th anniversary of Stravinsky’s death in a programme of music and dance.
Luciana Savignano is an exotic creature from her unworldly physical movements to her unique, vaguely Asian features and her unquestionably hypnotic gaze. She is petite yet seems a giant onstage with her wide shoulders and expansive arms. Her famously expressive use of those arms is still intact, even as she approaches her 77th birthday.
In an interview, before several appearances in the Italian peninsula over the next two months, Sergei Polunin said, I deeply believe in love. It’s a universal feeling; everyone wants to love and be loved. Today, I see a separation between men and women with too much aggressivity and competition between the sexes. For me, if…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started dancing at the age of 3 at my mothers dancing school Why did you start dancing? My mother wanted to give me as many opportunities in life to see what passions I grew for myself, and also what I was talented at. Dance was just one of…
One hundred years ago, Pablo Picasso lived Rome for two months. It was his first trip to Italy. The Ballets Russes was in town and Picasso was eager to begin work on his designs for Parade, the ballet which would open on 18 May 1917 in Paris at the Théâtre du Châtelet. Two years previously,…
Zubin Mehta will be conducting La Scala‘s orchestra for a Stravinsky double-bill with the theatre’s ballet company: Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. Michel Fokine‘s choreography and Alexandre Benois’ costumes and sets were created for the original production in 1911 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. This original version was last seen at La…
English National Ballet‘s exciting Bausch / Forsythe / van Manen programme arrives at Sadler’s Wells in March. Pina Bausch‘s masterpiece The Rite of Spring must be the highlight of the evening, though Hans van Manen‘s Adagio Hammerklavier and William Forsythe‘s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated certainly won’t disappoint. With the performances of The Rite of Spring, ENB will become the second ballet company…
The English National Ballet‘s Spring/Summer 2017 season sees a refreshing nod to the company’s past with a revival of Rudolf Nureyev‘s Romeo & Juliet during August of 2017 when the company makes a return to The Royal Festival Hall, its old hunting ground that it hasn’t revisited since 2008. Tamara Rojo has shown with her recent programming that…
Here’s the opening of Errollyn Wallen’s official biography: Born in Belize, Errollyn Wallen gave up her training at the Dance Theater of Harlem, New York to study composition at the universities of London and Cambridge. The life of one of the world’s foremost female composers is as eclectic as her music. She has no fear…
What a great evening out: Romeo and Juliet with the Mariinsky and Valery Gergiev conducting. However, not a costume or piece of scenery in sight… just Gergiev with his orchestra performing the Romeo and Juliet Suite n°1, which is the one which finishes with Tybalt’s death scene. The concert was part of the magnificent MiTo…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started at the age of 10 in my hometown Dax, near Bordeaux in southwest France. I was hyperactive so my mother had me do as many activities as I possibly could (tennis, swimming, violin, theatre, gymnastics, horse riding, skiing…) I started ballet because I had a bad back…
One day, when I was finishing the last pages of The Firebird in St Petersburg [in 1910], I had a fleeting vision… I saw in my imagination a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watched a single girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of spring. On 29…
Jeux (Games) is the last work for orchestra written by Claude Debussy. It was composed for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography. Jeux was was not a success when premiered in 1913, but this was nothing compared to the reception Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring received just two weeks later! Herbert Ross’ 1980 biopic Nijinsky recreated several of his ballets, including Jeux which, as pictured…
British Vogue reports that Kinder Aggugini is teaming up with the English National Ballet to redesign the costumes for Kenneth MacMillan‘s The Rite of Spring, during the Beyond Ballets Russes season at the London Coliseum in March 2012. Kinder is an intriguing character. An Italian Ex-punk, he studied at St. Martins during the 1980′s and worked on Savile row…
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