Articles...
Nov 27 2008
DESPITE the inevitable happy ending, this interpretation of the traditional fairy tale owes more to the sinister imaginations of the Brothers Grimm than the cheery Disney version....
Sep 17 2008
AS THE footwork of LFC led them to victory in Marseille last night, a more delicate kind of footwork was impressing those who had stayed at home....
May 19 2008
KIROV is to ballet what Rolls- Royce is to automobiles and Michelin is to restaurants – the standard by which much is measured – yet all that fame is as nothing if excellence is not maintained and developed....
Mar 7 2008
WHEN the Russian composer, Igor Stravinsky, created the music for the ballet Firebird, he little knew that nearly a century later it would be taken over by some body-popping hip hop dancers....
Feb 5 2008
IF THERE was ever going to be any real magic between the principal parts in this most splendid of Marius Pepita’s ballets, with mostly languorous music by Tchaikovsky, then producer Ellen Kent has surely hit the jackpot with the husband and wife team of Kristina and Alexei Terentiev....
Jan 29 2008
THREE aspiring young dancers are preparing to pirouette their way to success after reaching the national finals of a ballet competition....
Oct 12 2007
IT MAY be a new ballet, the score largely unfamiliar, but The Snow Queen, world premiered at the Liverpool Empire last night, has the look and sound of an established classic....
