Hints and tips:
...Clement’s father, Augustine, is obsessed with horseracing....
...Led by an ecstatic Sarah Lamb with the phenomenal Steven McRae (movement stunningly vivid, prodigiously alert, gloriously alive) and Melissa Hamilton, the ensemble missed not one Balanchinian trick....
...In two apartments dedicated to contemporary artists, videos by Clément Cogitore play on television screens. A leather jacket artwork by US artist Sadie Laska hangs in a wardrobe....
...Watch for Laura Morera, and debuts by Melissa Hamilton, Francesca Hayward, and a local first appearance by Natalia Osipova, and for Vadim Muntagirov’s appearance as des Grieux....
...The title role is catnip for danseuses: our national troupe fields some attractive newcomers – Melissa Hamilton and Francesca Hayward – and Natalia Osipova will make her local debut....
...I deplore the ill-advised exhumation (by Melissa Hamilton) of the Dying Swan, which is exclusively reserved for Ida Neversayneva of the Trocks, who reveals its truth as an affronted toucan in extremis....
...A too-willing youngest girl (Melissa Hamilton, lusciously true), a jealous middle sister (Laura Morera, superlative), and the emotionally desperate eldest daughter (Zenaida Yanowsky, all anguish) are the...
...As with Viscera, performances are splendid: the dancing of Laura Morera, Marianela Núñez, Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb, Melissa Hamilton, Edward Watson, Steven McRae and their colleagues throughout the evening...
...It is stunningly danced by Beatriz Stix-Brunell (the movement warm, eloquent ), by Sarah Lamb and Melissa Hamilton, both ravishing, by Steven McRae and Nehemiah Kish....
...Wheeldon’s Danse à grande vitesse, I need but report that it is an exact match for the clatter of Michael Nyman’s brain-deadening score; and that it energetically rattles past us, feeding on the gifts of Melissa...
...Mara Galeazzi and Melissa Hamilton exquisitely led the rites. We watch, and we should delight in the mysteries we observe. The programme ends with David Bintley’s “Still Life” at the Penguin Café....
...It is intriguing, fresh in thought, its duet exquisitely done by Melissa Hamilton in the arms of Eric Underwood, and overlong, alas, in its last movement, which is hostage to its James MacMillan score –...
...In this revival it was handsomely danced, Melissa Hamilton’s intense line notably effective in the great duet with Carlos Acosta, its ensemble clean-cut....
...And the beautiful Melissa Hamilton, still in the corps de ballet, made a most promising debut in the final song, the eponymous L’Invitation....
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