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...The programme’s finale was Ben Duke’s White Hare danced and acted by Christopher Akrill and Valentina Formenti to Jethro Cooke’s musical collage supplemented by frogs and cicadas....
...Her duet with the Prince’s sidekick (the polished Ken Saruhashi) all but stole the show....
...The opening by Cuban dancemaker Raúl Reinoso offers plenty of free-spinning ensembles and a never-ending kiss duet for Javier Rojas and Yaoqian Shang....
...His latest Royal Ballet piece, Untitled, 2023, kicks off a tutu-free triple bill at London’s Royal Opera House, sharing a programme with Christopher Wheeldon’s 2018 Corybantic Games and the original one-act...
...tickets here Puccini Gala Concert, Hamer Hall (Arts Centre Melbourne) To mark the centenary of Puccini’s death, Opera Australia is dedicating a concert to his most famous (and some lesser-known) arias and duets...
...The three couples paired off (and showed off) in a series of solos, duets and ensembles to the crash bang of the piano and larky pizzicato of the strings before crystallising into the group photo pose that...
...One of her big breakthroughs was the 2015 Duet for Cello and Orchestra, which was chosen by the Guardian as one of the best classical works of the 21st century....
...Christopher Wheeldon is not afraid of complex narratives. His previous story ballets have included the absurdist Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and a Shakespeare “problem” play, The Winter’s Tale....
...But the film’s little duets and ensemble scenes are often magnificent, with McDonagh’s trademark comic timing, and his cast perform them perfectly....
...But soon the libretto moves towards more solo stretches (not arias, more like periods of extended musical dialogue) and duets, there is less musical activity and greater momentum, purpose and drama....
...When Christopher Hampson, artistic director of Scottish Ballet since 2012, approached her about touring a reworked Mayerling with a smaller troupe, she didn’t hesitate: “I feel very strongly that the British...
...Christopher Oram’s lovely designs channel storybook charm for the olde-worlde kingdom of Arendelle and a Swarovski catalogue for Elsa’s palace....
...The duets are suitably angst-ridden, and Possokhov rides the music with confidence and floods the stage with virtuoso steps....
...The unorthodox police chief who insists reform can work When Christopher Magnus was growing up he had a ‘Question Authority’ bumper sticker on his bike....
...Christopher Bruce’s 1991 Rooster uses eight Rolling Stones tracks to give us a crash course in 1960s sexual politics. It has worn remarkably well....
...up the YouTube channel on my television and caught violinist Yevgeny Kutik at home performing Sheila Silver’s “Six Beads on a String”, and a little later Abigel Kralik and Benjamin Beilman played violin duets...
...ENB director Tamara Rojo nailed every laugh as the monstrous stepmother in her just-one-more-glass-darling duet with Fabian Reimair....
...Autonomy and breadth were just two of the many virtues of Gemma Bond’s riveting duet Seventy Two Hours, on the second programme....
...When the Royal Ballet first acquired Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour in 2016, it was still afflicted with the costumes designed for San Francisco Ballet eight years earlier (“discarded vegetable...
...For the evening’s second piece, an expanded version of Christopher Wheeldon’s 2017 duet Us, Katherine Watt dresses the sextet in black trousers and polo necks teamed with lightweight grey linen tailcoats...
...Yes, Widmann can write — everything from syrupy love duets and parody Bavarian marches to cacophonous outcries and Bach chorales — but what is he trying to tell us?...
...Rainer Behr and Christopher Tandy raged through self-destructive solos and there was a stageful of dinner dance duets in full evening dress, but there were also huge swathes of self-indulgent prattle — “...
...On one occasion, he ended up in an impromptu duet with a teenager who had come in to entertain the pensioners....
...Simpler, more seasonal pleasures at the Festival Theatre, where Christopher Hampson’s Cinderella has begun its eight-week winter tour....
...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....
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