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...Amanda Forsythe, making her NY Philharmonic subscription debut, was luminous and soulful....
...In March, Artists at the Center invites leading dancers to create a programme of their choice: Tiler Peck, a principal at New York City Ballet, starts off with works by William Forsythe, Alonzo King and...
...On the way home, I popped into David Zwirner Gallery in Grafton Street. Although I knew it was beneath us all, I could not help noting that the crowd outside Sprüth Magers was bigger, sparklier....
...Some of it, set to David Lang, was intimate and effective, especially a duet for Rafailedes and Daisy Jacobson....
...If David Attenborough turned his hand to ballet, The Cage might well be the result: the life-or-death struggle of a female insect colony danced to the busy-busy buzz of Stravinsky’s String Concerto in D...
...David Dawson’s 2000 breakout hit A Million Kisses to My Skin, to Bach’s D-minor piano concerto, fared better....
...Forsythe’s company has produced an unusual number of choreographers over the years, from David Dawson to Crystal Pite or Helen Pickett....
...Hector Forsythe, analyst at Oriel Securities, said: “The profit hit is not material, but this is another body blow to Serco....
...Melt, melt, melt,” David Dawson urges the Royal Ballet’s Marianela Nuñez as she arches back further and further in a precarious lift, one knee on fellow principal Federico Bonelli’s shoulder....
...(The Millepied and Forsythe jaw-breakers on display had so much to say that there was no time for dance of any value or interest.)...
...“Stay” or “Go” and “Think of me thinking of you” as six dancers frolic blandly to a score by David Lang. The result is workmanlike but rarely touches the heart....
...Post-Forsythe bodies populate the stage in Overture, arms overstretched, arabesques arched high, costumes neon-bright....
...Ratmansky responds by juxtaposing corps and soloist with a fluidity that rivals fleet Balanchine and a charge unequalled even in punk Forsythe....
...Alexei Ratmansky, David Bintley and Wayne McGregor worked with SFB before becoming household names; modern dance’s Paul Taylor and Mark Morris are regular fixtures....
...The dance, like David Morrow’s electronic score, is full of ellipses....
...David Morrow’s score establishes a succinct sound-world that Forsythe uses as the basis for a series of solos and encounters that have the economy of haikus – incidents and studies that emerge into the light...
...And David Lang’s agitated cello score, vividly rendered by Kimberly Patterson, provides the perfect backdrop for faceless angst....
...So how does Rolex persuade such figures as Martin Scorsese (film), Youssou N’Dour (music), Toni Morrison (literature), David Hockney (visual arts) and many others to join the programme?...
...But like his fellow departing dancers, he was subdued on Sunday, dancing William Forsythe’s goofy Herman Schmerman duet with Whelan and the part of Phlegmatic in Balanchine’s Four Temperaments....
...MunichArtifact The Bavarian State Ballet performs William Forsythe’s 1984 deconstructionist masterpiece, rarely seen in its full-length form, for one night only on Sunday at the Nationaltheater, as part...
...Birmingham Royal Ballet paid its autumn visit to Sadler’s Wells last week with a triple bill and a revival of the jolly Cyrano de Bergerac by BRB artistic director David Bintley....
...William Forsythe’s 1985 Steptext, receiving its Hong Kong premiere, was intended as a re-examination of the role of the ballerina and the tradition of the pas de deux....
...Then David Poe’s orchestral score kicked in and the dance proper began. It is divided into two parts, “Downsize” and the quieter, more reflective “Clean Bird”....
...The company, acquired by Ford in 1998, was sold on to US-based Gerry Forsythe and his Croydon-educated business partner Kevin Kalkhoven in 2004....
...As Cadmus, David Kravitz exaggerated his displeasure with his daughters, but, as Somnus, gave compelling accounts of the sleep god’s back-to-back arias....
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