When German poet Heinrich Heine wrote De l’Allemagne (“On Germany”), which was published in Paris in 1835, he couldn’t have...
Light and dark, day and night, youth and maturity, a flirtation and redemption, naturalistic and ethereal: “Giselle” spins a conjuror’s trick all the wilier for its very familiarity, its everlasting allurement.
In the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale The Red Shoes, a young girl is given an auspicious gift: a pair of...
Royal New Zealand Ballet finished their “Live in Your Living Room” series with a tribute to old and new; their...
Men. You can’t live with ’em and you can’t let ’em die. At least that’s the thinking in “Giselle,” the...
Under Tamara Rojo’s direction the English National Ballet have become a strong, ambitious company. Alongside the classical ballets, Rojo has made contemporary works a feature of the company’s repertoire and their latest triple bill comprises the signature works of three of modern dance’s key choreographers—William Forsythe, Hans van Manen and Pina Bausch.
