Ian Macmillan Posted July 15, 2012 Share Posted July 15, 2012 Links – Sunday July 15, 2012 Review – Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis-Titian 2012: Ismene Brown, Arts Desk Feature – Bolshoi Ballet, The Pharaoh’s Daughter: Viktorova Natalia, Voice of Russia Reviews – Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words: Ismene Brown, Arts Desk Luke Jennings, Observer Interview – Hong Kong Ballet Director, Madeleine Onne: Victor Swoboda, Montreal Gazette Review – Paris Opera Ballet, Triple Bill: Tobi Tobias, Arts Journal Review – Dance GB: Luke Jennings, Observer Review – Lisa Wilson, Lake: Shaaron Boughen, The Australian ---- see also Bridget Cormack’s background piece: The Australian Features – Frances Rings & Bangarra Dance’s “Terrain”: Elissa Blake, Sydney Morning Herald Liza Power, Sydney Morning Herald How Miami fired Edward Villella: Jordan Levin, Miami Herald Review – Big Dance: Jenny Gilbert, Independent Review – New English Ballet Theatre, Synergies: Jeffery Taylor, Express Interview – Béatrice Massin, Baroque Choreographer: Joel Lobenthal, City Arts Review – Ballroom with a Twist: Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle Review – Pájaro de Nube, ¡Mexico Unexpected!: Laura Bleiberg, LA Times And belatedly, “Black Swan” wins an award – of a sort: Daily Mail and worldwide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 16, 2012 Author Share Posted July 16, 2012 Links – Monday July 16, 2012 Reviews– Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis-Titian 2012: Clement Crisp – Financial Times Judith Mackrell – Guardian Gallery – Dave Morgan, DanceTabs Reviews – Paris Opera Ballet, Giselle: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Marina Harss, DanceTabs Review – New York City Ballet, Balanchine Bill at SPAC: Eric Taub, DanceTabs Review – Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words: Lynette Halewood, DanceTabs Elizabeth Streb’s One Extraordinary Day in London: Mark Brown, Guardian Nick Curtis, Evening Standard with Gallery Photo Gallery, Daily Mail Carmel Smith, LondonDance Review – Makiko Tamura & Small Apple Co, Tank: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Review – New York Tap Festival: Brian Seibert, NY Times Review – MOVEius Dance, Flight of Fancy (A Steampunk Ballet): Celia Wren, Washington Post Review – Raiford Rogers Modern Ballet, Quad Bill: Laura Bleiberg, LA Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I'm not doing too well with the Cultural Olympiad: I missed the Streb (which I really wanted to see - how did people find out it was on yesterday?) and the fire garden event at Stonehenge was cancelled due to the weather the night we went to see it! Oh, and the river pageant was a wash-out for us too; we couldn't get anywhere near the river! I did see the Dance GB performances in Greenwich though. I nearly booked for the Sunday (which was cancelled due to the weather) but, fortunately, ended up booking for the Wednesday instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 I'm not doing too well with the Cultural Olympiad: I missed the Streb (which I really wanted to see - how did people find out it was on yesterday?) It's certainly had a fair amount of publicity, although as to specifics of time and date I don't know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 They were very coy, only releasing info about when and where on their website and via Twitter about an hour before each performance. Part of the trend to exclude folk who aren't connected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Quite likely - and I have to say that it's not a trend to be welcomed. Bad enough excluding people from - well, this, that and the other, really - for not having an Internet connection, but when it comes to excluding people who're not online 24/7, that's far worse. And rather egotistical, really, if you're expecting everyone to jump the minute you say "jump". Oh well, since it would probably have taken me an hour even to get to wherever it was, it's just as well I didn't bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Plenty of journalists seemed to see the Streb performances. Did they get advance warning or were they just in the right place at the right time? Like Alison, I'd have been hard-pushed to get to one of the performances at an hour's notice even though I only live about 3 miles from the river (that's assuming that I could have left home as soon as I had heard that a performance was taking place). Are there going to be any other performances? I expect that, as a Londoner, I am paying for these performances and it is rather annoying that I will be missing them simply because of the company's "guerilla-style" approach to scheduling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 Journalists were given a schedule. It would be interesting to know how people got to know about it - I got the timings from a friendly journo. I made it to two events, one at 5.30 in Trafalgar Square and one at 8 outside the National Theatre. There were large crowds watching both. I assume the audiences built up during the course of the day though they didn't even say at the end of one event where the next was to be. Perverse, I call it. There's so much stuff going on in London, especially at the moment, that it's impossible to keep up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted July 16, 2012 Share Posted July 16, 2012 There's so much stuff going on in London, especially at the moment, that it's impossible to keep up. A glut before a famine? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 17, 2012 Author Share Posted July 17, 2012 Links – Tuesday July 17, 2012 Reviews– Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis-Titian 2012: Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times Mark Monahan, Telegraph Viv Groskop, Evening Standard Zoe Anderson, Independent Neil Norman, The Stage Graham Watts, LondonDance Review – Bolshoi Theatre Ballet Festival: Raymond Stults, Moscow Times --- San Francisco Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Bolshoi Ballet Review – Paris Opera Ballet, Giselle: Leigh Witchel, NY Post Reviews – Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words: Zoe Anderson, Independent Graham Watts, LondonDance Mark Monahan, Telegraph TV Documentary – Big Dance 2012: The Ballet Boyz, Channel 4 …… Trafalgar Square Review: Sanjoy Roy, Guardian Australian dance companies attract more private donors: Wendy Frew, Sydney Morning Herald Feature – Birmingham Royal Ballet in Spain: Fionnuala Burke, Birmingham Post Interview – Michaela DePrince, the emerging African dancer: David Smith, Guardian Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Casting: Louise Jury, Evening Standard Dancers in a Large Hadron Collision at CERN: Clare Wiley, Guardian Interview – Choreographer/Dancer Robert Dekkers: Geri Jeter, California Literary Review Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 TV Documentary – Big Dance 2012: The Ballet Boyz, Channel 4 Wish I'd known about that in advance: I'd have liked to record it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Links – Wednesday July 18, 2012 Obituary - Leo Kersley: Judith Cruickshank, Guardian Review – New York City Ballet at SPAC, In Creases etc: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Saratoga City Council supports longer SPAC/NYCB residency: Dennis Yusko, Times Union Reviews – Paris Opera Ballet, Giselle: Robert Johnson, NJ Star-Ledger Robert Greskovic, Wall St Journal Review – Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Wiesenland: Jann Parry, DanceTabs Why don’t more visual artists do theatre? Mark Lawson, Guardian Review – Jacob’s Pillow: Croll & Cunningham, From the Horse’s Mouth: Debra Cash, Boston Phoenix Review – Pilobolus Dance Theater, Double Bill: Brian Seibert, NY Times London - Elizabeth Streb & Dance GB: Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times Arts Beat Australian Ballet’s touring driver: Simon Plant, Herald Sun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 19, 2012 Author Share Posted July 19, 2012 Links – Thursday July 19, 2012 Reviews – Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis – Titian 2012: Louise Levene, Telegraph Seven Magazine Gerald Dowler, Classical Source Review – Paris Opera Ballet, Giselle: Tobi Tobias, Arts Journal Review – Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker: Fase, Come Out: Igor Toronyi-Lalic, Arts Desk Ballet and Football, Uneasy Partners: Ismene Brown, Arts Desk Move Tube: Monica Mason in 1975: Judith Mackrell, Guardian London’s Cultural Olympiad, “The Summer of Stupid?”: Jonathan Jones, Guardian Review – Matthew Bourne, Play Without Words: Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard Review – Pilobolus Dance Theater, Mixed Bill: Leigh Witchel, NY Post Preview – Robert Dekkers/Post:Ballet, When In Doubt: Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle Preview – Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times For the record, as the production uses choreography by Edward Watson danced by Royal Ballet dancers: Theatre Reviews– National Theatre, Timon of Athens: Michael Billington, Guardian Paul Taylor, Independent (None of the other reviews seen mention the dance scene.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 20, 2012 Author Share Posted July 20, 2012 Links – Friday July 20, 2012 A Personal Balanchine Memoir: Ex-NYCB Dancer and author, Toni Bentley: NY Times Impressions of Paris Opera Ballet in NY: Marina Harss, The Faster Times Joel Lobenthal, CityArts Review – Paris Opera Ballet, La Fille Mal Gardée (Paris): Rachel Mann, DanceTabs Review – Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Triple Bill: Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times BBC “Front Row” radio interview with Dame Monica Mason: BBC iPlayer (from 18.00) Review – Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis – Titian 2012: Neil Norman, Express Northern Ballet offers ‘Try before buy’ scheme: Helen Carter, Guardian Review – Jacob’s Pillow/Hong Kong Ballet, Triple Bill: Tresca Weinstein, Albany Times Union Preview – L.A. Dance Project/Benjamin Millepied: Jori Finkel, LA Times Review – Estonian National Ballet, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (HK): Kevin Ng, DanceTabs Review – Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Fase: Lise Smith, LondonDance Interview – Choreographer/Dancer, Heather Myers: Bob Clark, Calgary Herald Peru seeks a place on world cultural map: Mattia Cabitza, BBC News Film Reviews – “First Position”: Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail Kathryn Greenaway, Montreal Gazette Ballet Heals in Cuba: Reuters Video Report via Chicago Tribune Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Links – Saturday July 21, 2012 Royal Ballet - Dame Monica Mason Assessed: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Tate Modern’s Tanks, De Keersmaeker et al: Rachel Spence, Financial Times De Keersmaeker/Tanks Video Feature: Guardian Review – Fase: Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard Review – L.A.Dance Project/Benjamin Millepied, Framework: Lewis Segal, LA Times Review – Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Mixed Bill: Robert Johnson, NJ Star-Ledger Review – Werk Collective, Werk It Out: Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle Review – Jacob’s Pillow/Hong Kong Ballet, Triple Bill: Janine Parker, Boston Globe Preview – Moses Pendleton & Momix, Botanica: Victor Swoboda, Montreal Gazette Baseball and Ballet in Brooklyn, A History of Ballet in Nine Innings: Jon Perrelle, Examiner.com A London Big Dance Performer’s Story: Germaine Cheng, LondonDance ….. but it doesn’t look like Wayne McGregor was involved in the North Korean version: Telegraph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Much thanks for the final link. A great laugh - it reminded me in parts of Monty Python's fish-slapping dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 There was a feature/interview with Irek Mukhamedov in relation to the Peter Schaufuss Tchaikovsky trilogy in the Review section of the Daily Telegraph yesterday. Unfortunately, it hasn't appeared online yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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