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...Great dance actors find pathos in the deluded hero but Christopher Saunders searched in vain....
...Christopher Miller You know, they really just have to take it head on....
...FICTION JANUARYThe Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez (Virago)Hot on the heels of Michael Cunningham’s Day, fellow American Sigrid Nunez gives us her novelistic take on lockdown life during Covid — albeit in wilder...
...The full-evening ballet, which begins a nationwide tour at the Hippodrome in September, will use eight of the band’s greatest hits orchestrated for Birmingham’s Royal Ballet Sinfonia by Christopher Austin...
...The evening closed with a revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s reliably crowd-pleasing DGV: Danse à grande vitesse, created for the company in 2006 to an unrelenting Michael Nyman score....
...Specialist Christopher Kelly, a Virginia National Guard soldier, told the Financial Times that he was awestruck by its beautiful interior and “a little bit” tired....
...Ashton’s Two Pigeons, first danced by Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable in 1961, is an unashamedly sentimental tale of love in a garret, a raggle-taggle gypsy encampment and snow white turtle doves....
...The dancers raised their game accordingly, Marianela Nuñez, Valentino Zucchetti and James Hay flitting through Schubert’s Ninth with animatronic precision....
...The return of William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude found its title superbly realised in the gleaming bravura of Marianela Núñez (she produced a quadruple pirouette of blissful aptness)...
...The rest of the programme consists of Christopher Wheeldon’s sentimental After the Rain (ravishingly done by Marianela Núñez and Thiago Soares) and David Dawson’s inexcusably tedious The Human Seasons....
...It is difficult to know quite what to make of Strapless, the creation that the Royal Ballet has placed at the heart of a triple bill of works by Christopher Wheeldon....
...Christina Arestis and Marianela Núñez both caught the second section’s otherworldly mood — like a floorshow for The Shape of Things to Come....
...Marianela Nuñez, with her smiley manners and wondrous technical facility, is generally associated with the sunny side of the repertoire – Coppélia, La fille mal gardée – but her April triumph in Christopher...
...Rambert Dance, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury The Rambert troupe is to be seen in Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre from Wednesday to Friday, with a mixed repertory that includes Christopher Bruce’s Rooster (pictured...
...The programme, ill-devised, ended with Christopher Wheeldon’s cunning response to Michael Nyman’s garrulous Musique à grande vitesse....
...McGregor could pick up a tip or two from the impressively tight construction of Christopher Wheeldon’s 2006 DGV: Danse à grande vitesse....
...In the blink of an eye, just as she is completing her perilous plunge, Nuñez lets out a small cry and curls up on the floor....
...The programme is a fascination, even if its two novelties are second-hand: Liam Scarlett made his Viscera for the Miami City Ballet last year, using Lowell Liebermann’s piano concerto as score; Christopher...
...Christopher Wheeldon’s Aeternum is an even more difficult matter. The score is Britten’s tormented, angry Sinfonia da requiem, music sounding as resistant to dance as one might imagine....
...Trespass, owed to Alastair Marriott and Christopher Wheeldon, Turnage and Wallinger, is lighter in mood, a capriccio about bodies half-glimpsed in mirrors, voyeurism as sex....
...Marianela Núñez was a delight in Ashley’s role, as elegantly fast as the dance dictates, and radiant, showing the steps as the parure that they so joyously are....
...Marianela Nuñez was decent, alien as Sylvia....
...This seemed even more clear in that it was followed by Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst....
...Its new cast, Ricardo Cervera, Laura Morera, Marianela Nuñez and Sergey Polunin, are superb....
...An added joy was the return of Christopher Wheeldon’s Electric Counterpoint, a brilliant capriccio proposing the most intriguing adventures in ways of showing and perceiving dance....
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