John Mallinson

Links – Monday March 26, 2018 Reviews - Richard Alston Dance Company, Mid Century Modern, Cut and Run, Carnaval, London: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian Jenny Gilbert, The Arts Desk Review - Stephen Petronio Company, Signals, Wild Wild World, Hardness 10, NY: Deborah Jowitt, DanceBeat Review - Alain Platel, Requiem pour L, London: Jeffery Taylor, Sunday Express Review - Maine State Ballet, Alice in Wonderland, Falmouth ME: Carla Maria Verdino-Süllwold, Broadway World Review - Cie Claudio Bernardo, Giovanni’s Club, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance Preview - Milwaukee Ballet, Beauty and the Beast: Michael Muckian, Wisconsin Gazette Preview - DeNada Dance Theatre, TORO: Beauty and the Bull, London: Teresa Guerreiro, CultureWhisper News feature - The Greatest Dancer, new BBC dance programme for 2019: Victoria Ward, The Telegraph

Links – Sunday March 25, 2018 Reviews - The Royal Ballet, Yugen, The Age of Anxiety, Corybantic Games, London: Luke Jennings, The Observer David Dougill, Sunday Times Review - Alain Platel, Requiem pour L, London: Luke Jennings, The Observer Review - Richard Alston Dance Company, Cut and Run, Carnaval, Mid Century Modern, London: Vera Liber, British Theatre Guide Q & A - Matthew Bourne, on Cinderella: Douglas Mayo, British Theatre Review - Stephen Petronio Company, Signals, Wild Wild World, Hardness 10, NY: Martha Sherman, Danceviewtimes Profile - David Hallberg: Robyn Doreian, Sydney Morning Herald Preview - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Maria Pages, Dunas, Japan: Nobuko Tanaka, Japan Times Review - Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Alejandro Cerrudo programme, Chicago: Kyle MacMillan, Chicago Sun-Times Feature - The Voguing revival in Paris: Thomas Adamson, AP/Albany Timesunion Review - The Flamenco Project, Wellington NZ: Jennifer Shennan, Theatreview Diary - 3 of this week’s best shows in the UK: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian News - USA IBC 2018 in Jackson: The Clarion Ledger

Links – Saturday March 24, 2018 Obituary - Scott Ambler, dancer, choreographer: David Jays, The Guardian Review - San Francisco Ballet, Opus 19/The Dreamer, The Cage, Other Dances, Fancy Free, SF: Claudia Bauer, DanceTabs Review - American Ballet Theatre, Whipped Cream, Hong Kong: Natasha Rogal, South China Morning Post Feature - The choreographer’s legacy: Pia Catton, Bloomberg Feature - The importance of dance in schools: Ken Robinson & Lou Aronica, TED Review - Boston Ballet, Parts in Suite, Boston: Susan Saccoccia, Bay State Banner Review - Ballet Black, The Suit, A Dream within A Midsummer Night’s Dream, London: Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance Reviews - Mark Morris Dance Group, Layla and Majnun, Washington: Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post Sam Abney, Broadway World Review - Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol, Requiem pour L., London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Review - Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty, Plymouth: Karen Bussell, British Theatre Guide Review - Matthew Bourne, Cinderella, Salford: Aniqah Choudhri, Exeunt Review - Motionhouse, Charge, London: Siobhan Murphy, DanceTabs Reviews - Northern Ballet, The Little Mermaid, Edinburgh: Mary Brennan, The Herald Katie Stephen, EdinburghGuide John Kennedy, Edinburgh Reporter Review - Neon Dance, Wild Card, curated by Adrienne Hart, London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Review - Jacky Lansley, About Us, London: Josephine Leask, DanceTabs Feature - Basil Twist’s Symphonie Fantastique: Marina Harss, New York Times News - American Ballet Theatre’s Spring Season: Broadway World Review - Ballet Tucson’s season: Jennifer Lee Carrell, Arizona Daily Star Photo exhibition - George Platt Lynes by Nick Mauss, Whitney Museum NY: Laura Regensdorf, Vogue Profile - Wilma Giglio, dancer, Royal Danish Ballet: Eva Kistrup, Copenhagen Report

Fixed for 27th too.

Now have tickets for the 23rd.

There's a useful musical analysis of Bernstein's Serenade after Plato's 'Symposium' (the score that Wheeldon uses) by Charles Hazlewood on the BBC iPlayer.

RB class will be open to the public on April 17 at 10.25 on the Opera House stage. Booking for Friends and Students is on March 21 at 9am, to everyone else on March 22 at 12pm. Tickets are £14.

Looking for standing places for the Bernstein program on Friday March 23 and Tuesday 27th. Thanks.

On BBC iPlayer for a month

Ballet Black's double bill comprised Arthur Pita's A Dream Within a Midsummer Night's Dream and Cathy Marston's new work The Suit. The Suit - Cira Robinson, Jose Alves. ©Dave Morgan; by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr A Dream Within a Midsummer Night's Dream - Ebony Thomas, Sayaka Ichikawa, Jose Alves, Cira Robinson, Mthuthezeli, November, Marie Astrid Mence. © Dave Morgan; by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr More… Dave Morgan - 20 photos By courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Discussion of this programme is here

Weren't they there before?

Just a reminder that it's on tonight (Saturday) - and then presumably on iPlayer.

This programme to celebrate the centenary of Leonard Bernstein's birth comprised Wayne McGregor's new work Yugen, a revival of Liam Scarlett's The Age of Anxiety and Christopher Wheeldon's new Corybantic Games, all set to Bernstein's music. Yugen - Federico Bonelli, Sarah Lamb. ©Dave Morgan, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr The Age of Anxiety - Tristan Dyer, Sarah Lamb, Alexander Cambell, Bennet Gartside ©Dave Morgan, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Corybantic Games - Charlotte Tonkinson, Camille Bracher, Isabel Lubach, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Hannah Grennell, Leticia Dias, Isabella Gasparini. ©Dave Morgan, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr More… Dave Morgan - 15 photos By courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr. By kind permission of The Royal Opera House Discussion of this programme is here

Lots of £10 standing tickets now available on ROH website.

Thanks. Don't know why I've had it in my head that it opens on Friday! Let's hope that Morera is better for the rest of her slated performances.

Cast change for The Age of Anxiety on Thursday 15th: Laura Morera is indisposed and replaced by Sarah Lamb (who plays Rosetta in the other cast.)

Cash? What's that?

As someone pointed out before, the Robbins Foundation website mentions performances of The Concert by the Royal Ballet in December 2018 so, although not announced by the RB yet, it's not a secret. Nothing else from the RB on their list of anniversary events but one can but hope.

This article explains more. Seems they may open a new food store in Covent Garden - thank goodness!

Links – Tuesday March 13, 2018 Review - Mariinsky Ballet, Petipa celebrations, St Petersburg: Laura Cappelle, Financial Times Review - New York Flamenco Festival: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Feature - Working with Jerome Robbins: Peter Boal, Dance Magazine Review - Saburo Teshigawara, Tristan and Isolde, Hong Kong: Carla Escoda, Bachtrack Reviews - Candoco Dance Company, Let’s Talk About Dis, Face, London: Siobhan Murphy, DanceTabs Rachel Elderkin, The Stage Maria Salwinska, SeeingDance Review - Ballet X, Spring Series, Philadelphia: Robert Grescovic, Wall Street Journal Review - Russell Maliphant Company, maliphantworks2, London: Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance Review - National Ballet of Canada, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, The Four Seasons, Emergence, Toronto: Denise Sum, Danceviewtimes Review - Joffrey Ballet & L.A. Opera, Orpheus and Eurydice, Chicago: Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Review - Pennsylvania Ballet, Swan Lake, Philadelphia: Hilary Stroh, Bachtrack Review - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Nelken, Taipei: David Mead, SeeingDance Review - BalletNext, The Pianist, Experience, Follin, Vibrer, NY: Christina Pandolfi, Broadway World Preview - Brian Brooks Dance, NY: Martha Sherman, dancelog.nyc Photo gallery - Counterpoint Dance Company, Journeys of Internal Migration: Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs Review - Syracuse City Ballet, Aladdin, Syracuse: Natasha Ashley, Broadway World And… Yuan Yuan Tan of San Francisco Ballet is Barbie: Kylie Knott, South China Morning Post

…but not in HD.

Links – Monday March 12, 2018 Review - Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, works by Paul Taylor, Bryan Arias, Doug Varone, NY: Brian Seibert, New York Times Review - National Ballet of Canada, The Sleeping Beauty, Toronto: Taylor Long, Broadway World Review - San Francisco Ballet, Frankenstein, SF: Sophie-Marie Prime, Daily Californian Reviews - Joffrey Ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Pastor), LA: Laura Blieberg, Los Angeles Times Jane Rosenberg, Seen and Heard International Review - Candoco Dance Company, Let’s Talk About Dis, Face, London: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian Review - Jessica Lang Dance, Lines Cubed, Solo Bach, Glow, The Calling, Sweet Silent Thought, Thousand Yard Stare, Portland: Nim Wunnan, Oregon ArtsWatch Review - Joffrey Ballet & L.A. Opera, Orpheus and Eurydice (Neumeier), Chicago: Maria Nockin, Broadway World Feature - National Ballet of Canada’s Alexandra MacDonald on dancing Aurora: Madalina Hubert, Epoch Times Review - German Cornejo, Tango After Dark, London: Jeffery Taylor, Sunday Express News - £4.5m in new funding for Birmingham Royal Ballet expansion: Tamlyn Jones, Birmingham Post News - Pacific Northwest Ballet’s Robbins celebration: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Review - Gasp! Dance Inclusive, Dance Revolution Dance, Dunedin: Hannah Molloy, Theatreview Feature - The dancing boys of Instagram: Madison Malone Kircher, The Cut Diary - The week ahead in L.A. dance: Matt Cooper, Los Angeles Times

Links – Sunday March 11, 2017 Review - Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, Roses, NY: Deborah Jowitt, DanceBeat Review - Boston Ballet, Parts in Suite, Boston: Jeffrey Gantz, Boston Globe Review - Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, SF: Heather Desaulniers, DanceTabs Reviews - Ballet British Columbia, 16 + a Room, Solo Echo, Bill, London: Luke Jennings, The Observer Lucian Waugh, Exeunt David Dougill, Sunday Times Review - English National Ballet, Giselle (Akram Khan), Auckland: Jennifer Shennan, … on dancing Preview - Egyptian ballerina Magda Saleh is the focus of events in NY: Ahram Online Feature - Ballet classes can strengthen the mind: Laura McGeoch, Sydney Morning Herald

Links – Saturday March 10, 2018 Reviews - Company Wayne McGregor, Autobiography, SF: Leslie Katz, San Francisco Examiner Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle Reviews - DEMO by Damian Woetzel: Now, Washington: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes David Friscic, DC Metro Theater Arts Reviews - BalletX, Spring Series, Philadelphia: Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Hilary Stroh, Bachtrack Review - Royal New Zealand Ballet, The Piano: the ballet, Auckland: Raewyn White, New Zealand Herald Preview - Washington Ballet, Three World Premieres (by Marcelo Gomes, Gemma Bond, Clifton Brown): Sarah L. Kaufman, Washington Post Reviews - Adelaide Festival, the opening weekend: Jo Litson, Limelight Deborah Jones, FollowSpot Reviews - Northern Ballet, Jane Eyre, Leeds: Sarah Freeman, Yorkshire Post Tracey Bell, North West End Review - Russell Maliphant Company, maliphantworks2, London: Anna Winter, The Stage Feature - Les Grands Ballets reels from self-inflicted gender bias: Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail Review - Phoenix Dance Theatre, Windrush, Leicester: Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian Review - Ballet Hispanico, Edinburgh: Mary Brennan, The Herald News - Gerald Arpino Foundation announces The Joffrey/Arpino Celebration: Broadway World News - Cincinnati Ballet 2018-19 season: David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer Preview - Alberta Ballet, Cinderella (Christopher Anderson): Eric Volmers, National Post Review - Dark Circles Contemporary Dance, 3 New Creations, Addison Tx: Cheryl Callon, TheaterJones News - £4.5M expansion for Dance Hub Birmingham: Chris Middleton, BQ

The Royal Elegance events seem to be between August 30 and September 1, whereas the World Ballet Festival (aka International Ballet Festival) is August 1 - 12. I think!