Hints and tips:
...When Carlos Acosta took over as artistic director in 2020 he inherited three thoroughbred, hard-wearing Tchaikovsky classics staged by Peter Wright, director of BRB (then Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet) from...
...The Royal Ballet had scheduled 17 performances of a reworking of Peter Wright’s well-loved 1984 Nutcracker....
...Peter and the Wolf (Royal Ballet School) Star student Sergei Polunin (remember him?)...
...Goldman Sachs activist banker Peter Michelsen has joined Qatalyst Partners, Bloomberg reported....
...The president verbally sparred with the next reporter to ask a question, NBC’s Peter Alexander, after the journalist described Mr Acosta as “a diligent reporter”....
...She’s had several — Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli, Steven McRae, Matthew Golding. Does she choose them?...
...Puerto Rico has paid roughly $200m to the trustee that handles Cofina debt, Ms Acosta Febo said, indicating that a February payment will be made on time....
...Asked when she plans to retire, Christine Acosta’s answer is emphatic. Never....
...In tandem is that Imperial Russian frolic, Don Quixote, which is rather constrained here in an ill-judged version from Carlos Acosta....
...The fine central quartet – Sophie Thompson, Clare Foster, Peter Polycarpou and Jamie Parker – bring comedy and pathos; witty choreography from Carlos Acosta adds to a winning show....
...Gordon Greenberg’s new revival has choreography from dancer Carlos Acosta and a cast that includes Peter Polycarpou, Jamie Parker, Clare Foster and Sophie Thompson....
...Around them the denizens of the demi-monde prowl and pirouette, with choreography by Carlos Acosta and Andrew Wright wittily incorporating balletic touches....
...Peter Wright’s production wears well and gains accretions and revisions, so it seems, with each return to the repertory, but remains tremendously wooded in its settings....
...Acosta goes through the motions but, I find, nothing more than that....
...Director Peter Sellars recently explained in an interview that he had always hated Othello....
...Giselle returned to Covent Garden on Monday night, in Peter Wright’s staging, and brought the debut of Marianela Nuñez in the title role, with Carlos Acosta her partner....
...It seems to be a time for Carlos Acosta to take stock of his considerable achievements....
...Carlos Acosta, the Arabesque 20. Three – Lessing, Harold Pinter in 2005 and VS Naipaul in 2001 21. France. Samuel Beckett became a French citizen 22....
...Classical ballet lacks theatre directors such as Peter Brook or Deborah Warner who are happy to examine and re-examine to profound effect....
...Corder and Christopher Wheeldon, whose entrées for Earth, Water and Fire are admirably well-made and felicitous, despite the fearful bombinations of Malcolm Arnold’s score and the heavyweight design from Peter...
...And one more thing: that Carlos Acosta couldn’t half do a job for QPR. peter.aspden@ft.com...
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