Ian Macmillan

Links - Friday 5 May, 2023

 

Reviews - Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Vortex, London;

Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Mark Monahan, Telegraph

Siobhan Murphy, The Stage

Zoe Anderson, Independent

Louise Levene, Financial Times

 

Review - Australian Ballet, Jewels, Sydney: Jansson J Antmann, Limelight

 

Tour Review - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Edinburgh: Simon Thompson, Seen and Heard

 

Review - United Ukrainian Ballet, Wartime Elegy - Mixed Bill, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

Review - Taiwan National Arts Association, Young Stars, New Visions, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

 

News - Pacific Northwest Ballet’s 50th Season comes to a close: Staff, Ballet Herald

 

News - National Ballet of Canada hosts Fundraising Gala, MAD HOT BALLET: Deco-Danse: Stephi Wild, BWW Dance

 

And,

-- Ballet and barre workouts can help you to think more clearly: Laura Alario Avery, Stylist

 

Links - Thursday 4 May, 2023

 

Feature - Chris Wheeldon’s ‘Dangerous and Exciting’ adventure at City Ballet: 

Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times

Leah Putnam, Playbill

 

Feature - The painter who inspired a new ballet: Ella Riley-Adams, NY Times

 

 

Reviews - Australian Ballet, Identity: THE HUM, Paragon, Sydney:

Jansson J Antmann, Limelight

Yvette Grant, The Conversation

 

Review - Trisha Brown Dance Company, Let’s Talk About Bleeding, Rogues, For M.G.: The Movie, New York: Brian Seibert, NY Times

 

Review - Korea National Contemporary Dance Company, Mechanism, Everything Falls Dramatic, London: Siobhan Murphy, The Stage

 

Review - Want to Dance Festival, 3 Programmes, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

Review - Paul Taylor Dance Company, Company B, Dreamachine, The Green Table, Los Angeles: Jane Rosenberg, Seen and Heard

 

Review - Oregon Arts Theatre, Firebird (Possokhov), Indigo, Eco, Portland: Amy Leona Havin, Oregon Artswatch

 

Preview - Birmingham Royal Ballet’s summer bill: Apollo, Interlinked , ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café: Graham Spicer, Gramilano

 

 

News - China's top ballet workshop reveals potential of young talents: Staff, Global Times

 

News - Orlando Ballet announces 2023/2024 Golden Season: Staff, En Face Magazine

 

 

 

Anyone know who decides or nominates these international 'days'? 

Links - Saturday 29 April, 2023

 

Obituary - Pierre Lacotte, Dancer & Choreographer: Staff, The Times (+ Share)

 

 

Feature - The wild life and times of a soon-to-be former City Ballet dancer: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

Feature - Royal New Zealand Ballet's 'new era' attempts to raise the barre on diversity: Leila Lois, The Post

 

Photography Feature - Movement at the Still Point: Kasey Broekema with Mark Mann, Sondra Lee, and Calvin Royal III, Ballet Herald
 

 

Review - San Francisco Ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Tomasson), San Francisco: Jim Munson, BWW SF

 

Review - New York City Ballet, La Source, Namouna, A Grand Divertissement, New York: Marina Harss, Fjord Review

 

Review - New York City Ballet, Square Dance, Afternoon of a Faun, Haieff Divertimento, Donizetti Variations, New York: Matthew Paluch, Gramilano

 

Review - BRB2, Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection, Northampton: Sarah Becker, Northampton Chronicle

 

Tour Review - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Aberdeen, Glasgow:

Sonja Rasmussen, Press and Journal

Lucy Ribchester, The List

 

Review - Bobbi Jean Smith & Co, Broken Theater, New York: Candice Thompson, Fjord Review

 

Review - Shamel Pitts & Tushrik Fredericks, Touch of Red, New York: Brian Seibert, NY Times

 

Review - Philadanco!, Moving… Beyond Forward , Philadelphia: Camille Bacon-Smith, Broad Street Review

 

Review - Australian Dance Party, Hillscape, Canberra: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing

 

Preview - Birmingham Royal Ballet, Black Sabbath Ballet: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper (and there's even more out there now)

 

 

Dancer Spotlight - Isaac Hernandez, San Francisco Ballet: Staff, En Face Magazine

 

Book Review - Don't Think, Dear, by Alice Robb: Pippa Bailey, New Statesman

 

And, anyone recognise this tale?  Mirror

Lots of online syndicated coverage on this project in the past 24 hours, with just a selection in today's Links.

Links - Friday 28 April, 2023

 

Features - ‘Hate to be predictable’: Acosta brings Black Sabbath ballet to Birmingham: 

Jessica Murray, Guardian

Staff, itvX

PA News Agency via York Press (and all over!)

Video - ITV News

Photo Gallery - Birmingham Mail

 

Interview - Laura Morera's proud farewell to Covent Garden: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

 

Tour Reviews - BRB2, Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection, Northampton:

Graham Watts, Bachtrack

Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance

 

Review - New York City Ballet, Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No 2, Raymonda Variations, New York: Matthew Paluch, Gramilano

 

Review - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London: Rupert Christiansen, Spectator

 

Review - Douglas Dunn, Mimi Gross & Dancers, Garden Party, New York: Leigh Witchel, dancelog.nyc

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links - Thursday 27 April, 2023

 

News - The Royal Ballet 2023-2024 Season:

Staff, Ballet Herald. 

Stephi Wild, BWW UK

 

News - Sarasota Ballet to make international debut at Royal Ballet’s Ashton festival in London: 

Jay Handelman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Staff, Sarasota Magazine

Monica Roman Gagnier, Your Observer

 

Tour Reviews - BRB2, Carlos Acosta's Classical Selection, Northampton:

Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Mark Monahan, Telegraph

Donald Hutera, The Times (+ Share)

 

Review - Ballet West, Les Noces, In the Night, Light Rain, Salt Lake City: Sophie Bress, Fjord Review

 

Review - Royal Ballet, Cinderella (2 casts), London: Paul Arrowsmith, Gramilano

 

Review - Ballet de L'Opéra de Paris, Firebird, Song of the Wayfarer, Bolero, Paris: John O'Dwyer, Seen and Heard

 

Review - New York City Ballet, Square Dance, Afternoon of a Faun, Haieff Divertimento, Donizetti Variations, New York: Ivy Lin, Bachtrack

 

Review - Dance Theater of Harlem, Allegro Brillante, This Bitter Earth, Sounds of Hazel, New York: Faye Arthurs, Fjord Review

 

Review - Martha Graham Dance Company, Two Progammes, New York:

Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance

Robert Grescovic, Wall St Journal

 

Review - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London: Anna Pujol Castiblanque, SeeingDance

 

Review - Repertory Dance Theatre, The Winged, I've Known Rivers, Dancing the Bears Ears, Salt Lake City: Sophie Bress, Fjord Review

 

Preview - Boston Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty , Boston: Staff, Ballet Herald

 

 

Video Feature - Dance North Youth Company, Savage: Kelly Apter, Scotsman

 

Lifestyle - Ed Watson on his well-located Islington enclave: Emma Magnus, Evening Standard

 

 

 

 

 

 

44 minutes ago, Robin Smith said:

and a marketing email from Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall claims The Times has also given it a 4 star review.

Maybe, maybe not - we'll see in tomorrow's Links!

In advance of tomorrow's Links, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune got a piece in very early for Florida local time:

 

https://eu.heraldtribune.com/story/entertainment/dance/2023/04/26/sarasota-ballet-to-dance-at-royal-ballet-ashton-festival-in-london/70143692007/

 

 

That has got to be the longest Press Release posted here in our 11.5 years history - very well done, Janet!  

Links - Wednesday 26 April, 2023

 

Feature - Star Choreographer Alexei Ratmansky on Russia’s Cultural War: Javier C Hernández, NY Times

 

Feature - Season Planning and Transitions at San Francisco Ballet: Janos Gereben, SF Classical Voice

 

Feature - ‘Mam, show us your interpretive dance!’ How a former mining village got into the groove: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

 

 

Preview - Royal Ballet, New McGregor, Corybantic Games, Anastasia Act III, London: Lyndsey Winship, Culture Whisper

 

Review - Norwegian National Ballet, Light of Passage, Oslo: Graham Watts, Bachtrack

 

Review - La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, New York: Siobhan Burke, NY Times

 

Review - Douglas Dunn, Mimi Gross & Dancers, Garden Party, New York: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

Preview - At Trisha Brown, a New Voice Creates a ‘Symphony of Layers’: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

 

News - Federico Bonelli announces first Northern Ballet season as artistic director:

Jamie Body, The Stage

David Mead, SeeingDance

 

News - Nominations announced for the 23rd National Dance Awards: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

News - A Festival of Korean Dance, The Place: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

 

 

Links - Tuesday 25 April, 2023

 

A selection of Tributes to - Len Goodman, Strictly's original Head Judge:

Anthony Hayward, Guardian

Michael Hogan, Telegraph

Julia Raeside, The i

Jenny Gross, NY Times

Staff, The Times (+ Share)

--- A Life in Pictures: Pejman Faratin, Guardian

 

 

Review - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London: Jenny Gilbert, Arts Desk

 

Review - San Francisco Ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Tomasson), San Francisco: Terez Rose, Bachtrack

 

Review - Royal Swedish Ballet, Julia and Romeo (Ek), Stockholm, Bachtrack

 

Review - Joffrey Ballet, The Little Mermaid, Chicago: Hugh Iglarsh, New City Stage

 

Review - Finnish National Ballet, Jekyll and Hyde, Helsinki: Rosanna Liuski, BWW

 

Review - Dance Theatre of Harlem: Higher Ground, Orange, When Love, Coming Together, New York: Mimi Liu, Ballet Herald

   ----     Allegro Brillante,  This Bitter Earth, Sounds of Hazel, Blake Works IV,  New York: Joel Benjamin, TheaterScene

 

Review - Kathy Westwater, Lance Gries & Colleagues, Revolver, Choreomaniacs, New York:

Siobhan Burke, NY Times

Erin Bomboy, Bachtrack

 

Review - Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Legacy, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

Review - Alonzo King LINES Ballet, Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled, San Francisco: Toba Singer, Culture Vulture

 

 

News - Edinburgh Festival - Programme includes Alvin Ailey & a multinational Bausch Rite: 

Official Programme, EIF

Severin Carrell & Imogen Tilden, Guardian

 

News - American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Season: Graham Spicer, Gramilano

 

News - New York City Ballet 2023-2024 Season: Staff, Ballet Herald

 

News - BalletMet 2023-24 Season: Staff, En Face Magazine

 

 

Links - Monday 24 April, 2023

 

 

Review - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London: Sarah Crompton, The Observer

 

Review - Alleyne Dance, Far From Home, Ipswich: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

 

Review - Ballet de Lorraine, For Four Walls, Cela Nous Concerne Tous, New York: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

 

Feature - What’s in a page? To print theatre programs or deliver them digitally, that is the question: Karen Fricker, Toronto Star

 

Feature + Video - Taking a look back at 60 seasons of Ballet West: Carole Mikita, KSL TV  (Once past the Ads, there's a Nutcracker)

 

 

News - Paragon - The Australian Ballet explores 'identity': Staff, Dance Australia

 

News - Where dance meets exhibition: Staff, Dance Australia

 

Interview - Talking to Philip Piggin about ZEST Dance for Wellbeing: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing

 

Ukraine - Another dancer killed in action: Staff, Mail Online  (and elsewhere)

 

 

5 hours ago, Josette said:

No, according to Tamara Robo in her interview with Christiane  Amampour on CNN this week.   (You should be able to find it easily online.)

You need look no further than the top of Friday's Links!!

Links - Sunday 23 April, 2023

 

Review - Iana Salenko & Invited Colleagues, Ballet for Life Gala, Berlin: Veronica Posth, Fjord Review

 

Review - The Trocks in Milan: Graham Spicer, Gramilano

 

Review - New York City Ballet, Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No 2, Raymonda Variations, New York: Mary Cargill, Danceviewtimes

 

Review - Tom Gold Dance, XV, Significant Strangers, A Felicidade, New York: Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance

 

Film Review - Carmen shows the true potential of a dance feature film: ‘It’s poetry: Steven Vargas, LA Times

 

Tour Review - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Inverness: Margaret Chrystall, Inverness Courier

 

 

And have a look at the Bay Area Reporter piece in Wednesday's Links for a comprehensive look at the Thomas Adès album.

Links - Saturday 22 April 2023

 

Obituary - Pierre Lacotte, Ballet Archaeologist: Laura Cappelle, Financial Times

 

Obituary - Valda Setterfield, a leading figure in the New York dance world: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times

 

 

Interview/Photo Book - Ed Watson: A Different Dance: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

 

Feature - Three senior dancers at Dance Theater of Harlem reflect on working with Virginia Johnson: Charmaine Patricia Warren, NY Times

 

Feature - Benjamin Millepied uses movement to reinvent ‘Carmen’ on camera: Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times

 

Feature - Pageant, an artist-run dance space that’s ‘All presentation, Baby’: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

Feature - Mayara Magri - A day in her life: Amber O'Connor, Mirror

 

 

Reviews - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London:

Graham Watts, Bachtrack

Jann Parry, Gramilano

Louise Levene, Financial Times

 

Review - Ayodele Casel & Colleagues, Artists at the Center, New York: Cecilia Whalen, Fjord Review

 

Review - Estonian National Ballet, Open Door, Suite en Blanc, Tallinn: Stuart Sweeney, Critical Dance

 

Catchup Review - Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane Company, Curriculum II, Boston: Thea Singer, Arts Fuse

 

Review - New  Zealand Dance Company, Stage of Being Double Bill, Auckland: Jenny Stevenson, Theatreview

 

Preview - Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Hissy Fits, Choke, Snatched Back from the Edges, Detroit: Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press

 

 

 

 

It's been a busy week at the Guardian, and there are still some hours left!

Links - Friday 21 April 2023

 

Video Interview - Tamara Rojo, AD at San Francisco Ballet: Christiane Amanpour, CNN

---  SFB 2024 Season announced: Chloe Rabinowitz, BWW.  Staff, En Face Magazine

---  Can EDM get millennials and Gen Z to love classical dance? SF Ballet hopes so: Christina Campodonico, SF Standard

 

 

Reviews - Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT 1), La Ruta, Gods and Dogs, Figures in Extinction [1.0], London:

Siobhan Murphy, The Stage

Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Mark Monahan, Telegraph

Vera Liber, BTG

Debra Craine, The Times (+ share)

Anna Selby, The Arbuturian

 

Review - New York City Ballet, Concerto Barocco, Kammermusik No 2, Raymonda Variations, New York: Ivy Lin, Bachtrack

 

Review - Dance Theater of Harlem, Allegro Brillante, Sounds of Hazel, Blake Works IV, New York: Brian Seibert, NY Times

 

Review -  Youth American Grand Prix, Gala Performance, New York: Faye Arthurs, Fjord Review

 

Review - Queensland Ballet, Giselle, Brisbane: Madelyn Coupe, Fjord Review

 

Reviews - Joffrey Ballet, Little Mermaid, Chicago:

Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune

Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun-Times

 

Review - Shen Yun: speed of costume changes was more impressive than any of the dancing, London: Rupert Christiansen, Spectator

 

Review - Diabolo Dance Theatre, VALO I - Amoeba, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

Feature - Breaking down barriers at Brooklyn Ballet: Lora Strum, BWW Dance

 

Film Review - Carmen, Directed by Benjamin Millepied: Joshua Barone, NY Times

 

News - Ballet in the Coronation concert: Staff, BBC Music Magazine

 

Did we know that Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé will be performing a "bespoke piece of choreography" at the Concert in Windsor on May 7th?

 

https://www.classical-music.com/news/coronation-concert-will-feature-ballet-opera-and-shakespeare/

 

 

Links - Thursday 20 April 2023

 

News - Bolshoi ballet about Nureyev dropped due to ban on ‘LGBT propaganda’: Reuters via Guardian  (and everywhere)

 

 

Review - Martha Graham Dance Company, Get Up, My Daughter, Cortege 2023, Dark Meadow Suite, Cave of the Heart, New York: Brian Seibert, NY Times

 

Catchup Review - New York City Ballet, Fancy Free, Rondo, Solo, Episodes, New York: Leigh Witchel, dancelog.nyc

 

Review - Now Festival/Marikiscrycrycry, Goner, London: Sanjoy Roy, Guardian

 

Review - Bulareyaung Dance Company: tiaen tiamen Episode 1, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance

 

Interview - Georgina Pazcoguin, leaving NYCB for the 'next big thing': Juan Michael Porter II, BWW

 

Feature - Inside YAGP’s Celebration of 25 Years Producing the Stars of Tomorrow: Kasey Broekema & Nadia Vostrikov, Ballet Herald

 

Feature - The magic within the living legacy of Virginia Johnson: Djassi DaCosta Johnson, En Face Magazine

 

Book Feature - Don't Think, Dear by Alice Robb: Madison Mainwaring, New Republic

 

News - Boston Ballet 2023-24 Season announced: Chloe Rabinowitz, BWW

 

News - Bolshoi Theater announces new prima ballerina and principal dancer: RBTH 1, RBTH 2

 

 

 

 

 

Links - Wednesday 19 April 2023

 

Tribute/2004 Interview - Pierre Lacotte, Choreographer: Ismene Brown, Arts Desk

 

 

Review - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Glasgow: Rothery Sullivan, Glasgow Guardian

 

Review - American Ballet Theatre Studio Company, Ballet Superstars of the Future, Hong Kong: Natasha Rogai, SCMP

 

Reviews - Rihoko Sato, Forest of Confession, London:

Donald Hutera, The Stage

Matthew Paluch, Gramilano

 

Review - Florence Peake, Factual Actual, Southwark: Adrian Searle, Guardian

 

Review - Paul Taylor Dance Company, Mixed Bill, Philadelphia: Ellen Dunkel, Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Preview - National Youth Dance Company, Novacene, London: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

 

Preview - Joshua Beamish/MOVETHECOMPANY, @giselle, New York: Staff, Untapped New York

 

 

Feature - ‘Disabled children need to know it is an option’: co-creating the future of dance: Caroline Butterwick, Guardian

 

Ballet Score - To hell and back: Thomas Adès's 'Dante' ballet: Tim Pfaff, Bay Area Reporter

 

Overhead Gallery - English National Ballet as seen by a Drone: Brad Walls via Jeremy Gray, PetaPixel

 

Gallery - ‘The perfect body is not important’: discipline is the pointe for ballet dancers in Peru: Magda Gibelli, Guardian

 

 

News - Virginia Johnson steps down from Dance Theater of Harlem. For Keeps: Gia Kourlas, NY Times

 

News - National Ballet of Japan: Will Tuckett’s Macbeth to premiere in Tokyo alongside The Dream: Staff, Ballet Herald

 

News - Cal Performances’ next Season has many debuts and treasured returns: Janos Gereben, SF Classical Voice

 

News - Australian Dance Week, 2023, Canberra: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing

 

 

 

 

Links - Tuesday 18 April 2023

 

Reviews - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Glasgow:

Louise Levene, Financial Times

Kelly Apter, Scotsman

Kathy Elgin, Bachtrack

 

Review - Sarasota Ballet, La Sylphide, Sarasota: Leigh Witchel, dancelog.nyc

 

Review - Queensland Ballet, Giselle (2 performances), Brisbane: Deborah Jones, Follow Spot

 

Review - La Scala Ballet School, La Fille Mal Gardée (Olivieri), Milan: Graham Spicer, Gramilano

 

Review - Spring Matinees in San Francisco (San Francisco Ballet & Others): Heather Desaulniers, Critical Dance

 

Review - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, Two Programs, Berkeley: Aimée Ts'ao, SF Classical Voice

 

Review - Boston Ballet, Don Quixote (Nureyev), Boston: Arielle C Frommer, Harvard Crimson

 

Preview - English National Ballet, Cinderella-in-the-round (Wheeldon), London RAH: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

 

 

News - New York City Ballet to honour Past and Present in 75th Season: Javier C Hernandez, New York Times

 

News - American Ballet Theatre 2023 Summer Season: Staff, Ballet Herald

 

News - Northern Ballet's The Great Gatsby coming to Sadler's Wells next month: Stephi Wild, BWW UK

 

News - Sadler's Wells launches schools project to get young people into dance: Matthew Hemley, The Stage

 

News - Jersey's National Ballet (Ballet d' Jerri) premieres ahead of world tour: Staff, BBC News

 

Interview - Jonzi D says ‘For me hip-hop has been a life-giving experience’: Debra Craine, The Times (+ Share)

 

 

 

 

I imagine that the basic reason behind all this recruiting is that 15 dancers are moving from Zurich to Berlin with their current AD - see the Germany etc News thread about a week ago - so Cathy needs to fill the ranks.  (And whilst I stand to be corrected here, I think that Zurich gave her her first contract on leaving the RBS.).   As time goes on, I'll be interested to see which, if any, of her creations for the small company at Bern (13/14 dancers) she revisits with a larger company - her Romanov-based Firebird, her Juliet and Romeo, and Hexenhatz/Witch Hunt come first to mind.  But since leaving Bern, she has accumulated quite a body of work with larger companies internationally so may feel no need to do so.  She is a voracious reader with an inquiring mind and I'm sure she will never lack for potential new stories to tell. 

I'm locking this - the news has also been posted on the main News thread for this visit.