This site has limited support for your browser. We recommend switching to Edge, Chrome, Safari, or Firefox.

subscriptions

"Fjord Review serves as an indispensable resource for the world of dance. Contributors offer well written and researched comment on what everyone's talking about - and what we might have missed. Unexpected humor and honest candor can be found in every article, and the photography and art direction elevate dance to the place of reverence and relevance it deserves. Bravo, Fjord."

Peter Boal
Artistic Director, Pacific Northwest Ballet

What's Included

Access to all latest Reviews, Interviews & What's On

1000+ dance reviews, interviews, articles & podcast episodes

Biannual (2) Print Editions - 7.25″ x 10″

International shipping included

GET IT IN PRINT | CURRENT ISSUE

Ships Immediately:

Fjord Review #7

Fjord Review #7

Discover insightful conversations with prominent figures in the dance world, essays on ballet history and performances, reviews of leading ballet companies, and stunning dance photography in our latest issue.

184 pages. 7.25″ x 10″

Description

 

Subscribe to receive unlimited digital access across your devices.

 

What’s in my subscription?

A Digital subscription gives you unlimited access to all our online content across multiple devices. A Print + Digital subscription allows you unlimited access to online content, plus two print magazines annually.

When will I receive my magazines?

We publish two magazines per year, spring and fall editions. Subscribers are the first to receive their magazines, before single copies go on sale.

Returns

Returns are not offered on subscriptions, or on single copy sales.

What if I don’t receive my magazine?

Magazines are sent media mail or by regular mail and are not tracked unless selected in shipping. Please ensure that you have given us the correct address when you subscribe, or purchase the magazine. Please allow two weeks before contacting us regarding missing magazines.

Where do you ship?

We ship internationally, and regular postage is included for Print + Digital subscriptions only.

all articles

Good and Evil, Embodied
REVIEWS | Sophie Bress

Good and Evil, Embodied

During opening night of Ballet West’s performance of Val Caniparoli’s “Jekyll & Hyde,” my dad turned to me and said, “I remember you once told me that dancers are telling stories with their bodies.

Continue Reading
Working the Room
REVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Working the Room

In a small white studio space, the line between performers and audience is being blurred. Choreographer Meytal Blanaru, born in Israel but now Brussels based, has devised this piece along with the dancers, and it’s multifaceted indeed, a study in hope and community spirit, with many playful detours along the way.

Continue Reading

Music and Meaning

Music and Meaning

I’ve been thinking about content for a while now. Without it, blogs, websites, and other social media die. But content, as an adjective, has a different meaning: to be pleased,...

Performance

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Place

Zellerbach Theatre, Penn Live Arts, Philadelphia, October 18, 2024

Words

Merilyn Jackson

Continue Reading

get it in print

$29.00

240 pages. 7.25″ x 10″

Ships internationally.

Atonement
REVIEWS | Róisín O’Brien

Atonement

When I first read Ian McEwan’s Atonement at university, my lecturer told us that, upon finishing the book, she threw it on the ground. 

Continue Reading
Darkness Never Dies
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Darkness Never Dies

Touted as a “Halloween destination for ballet and horror fans alike,” American Contemporary Ballet, now in its thirteenth season—a feat in and of itself for any dance company—is presenting, “LA’s Fatal Attraction: “Inferno” (2017), “Burlesque” (2018), and “The Rite” (2023), in repertory throughout October.

Continue Reading

Water World

Water World

To children or the young at heart, it’s pure magic. “Mermaid,” the beloved Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale, reworked and dazzling to behold, is a new original production from K-Ballet...

Performance

K-Ballet Tokyo: “Mermaid” with choreography by Tetsuya Kumakawa

Place

Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo, Japan, September 23, 2024

Words

Kris Kosaka

Continue Reading
Patrick Frenette, Rock Solid
INTERVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Patrick Frenette, Rock Solid

After joining American Ballet Theatre as an apprentice in 2013, and becoming a member of the corps de ballet in January 2014, where his roles included Wilfred in “Giselle,” and Notary’s Clerk in “La Fille mal gardée,” Patrick Frenette, at 29, was finally promoted to soloist in July of this year.

Continue Reading
Dreams and Disorder
REVIEWS | Emily May

Dreams and Disorder

There are certain elements you can expect to find in any piece by Hofesh Shechter: a deafening, grungy, and distorted score composed by the choreographer himself; dim lighting and smoke enveloping the stage to create a nostalgic yet unsettling atmosphere; and a signature hunch-shouldered, gestural movement language referencing various forms of folk dance.

Continue Reading
Mother Tongue
REVIEWS | Emily May

Mother Tongue

A colourful, decorative rug is positioned centre stage. “It lasted pretty well,” a disembodied voice comments through the speaker system, explaining how it was chosen for its pattern, which is ideal for concealing dirt.

Continue Reading
Romeo & Juliet Redux
REVIEWS | Victoria Looseleaf

Romeo & Juliet Redux

This is decidedly not your mother’s “Romeo and Juliet.” Indeed, Benjamin Millepied’s “Romeo & Juliet Suite,” choreographed for the superb members of his L.A. Dance Project, featured a female duo (Daphne Fernberger and Nayomi Van Brunt) in the titular roles at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on Thursday. 

Continue Reading

Canadian Content

Canadian Content

This October, the Canada National Ballet returned to London for the first time since 2013 with a series of performances at Sadler’s Wells Theatre. 

Performance

The National Ballet of Canada: “Passion” by James Kudelka / “Islands” by Emma Portner / “Angels' Atlas” by Crystal Pite

Place

Sadlers Wells, London, UK, October 2024

Words

Phoebe Roberts

Continue Reading
A Mystical Evening
REVIEWS | Merilyn Jackson

A Mystical Evening

This year’s Biennale Danza Venezia Silver Lion award went to Zurich-based choreographer Trajal Harrell. A house director at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, and the founding director of the Schauspielhaus Zurich Dance Ensemble, he brought the Ensemble to FringeArts Festival for the Philadelphia premiere of his 2022 “The Köln Concert” last month. 

Continue Reading
Resistance
REVIEWS | Lorna Irvine

Resistance

What's your poison? Tom of Finland, or Boy George? Madonna, or Marilyn? Top, or bottom? There have been so many recent dramas of late, focussing on eighties' queer culture: The Line of Beauty, Pride, Love Song to Lavender Menace, and It's A Sin, among others.

Continue Reading

Ladies’ Night

Ladies’ Night

The New York City Ballet’s 2024 Fall Fashion Gala was once again a smashing fundraising success, pulling in 3.2 million dollars and packing the house with slew of well-dressed celebrities...

Performance

New York City Ballet: Fall Fashion Gala

Place

David H. Koch Theater, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, October 9, 2024

Words

Faye Arthurs

Continue Reading
Good Subscription Agency