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...ENB’s longline romantic tutus — white with a hint of mildew — look depressingly like old net curtains....
...ENB’s dancers coped manfully with its challenges but as yet they lack the starry assurance it requires....
..., Johann Strauss) but Wheeldon — like Ashton, Nureyev, Matthew Hart, Alexei Ratmansky et al — was seduced by Prokofiev’s bittersweet 1945 masterpiece, splendidly played here by Gavin Sutherland and the ENB...
...The peasant and national dances were taken at a vertiginous lick by the ENB orchestra....
...the ENB Philharmonic....
...A precocious interest in leadership led her to return to ENB in 2012....
...noble Nutcracker Prince and Thursday night’s Mouse King, the ever-excellent James Streeter, supplied welcome flashes of comedy, but Tchaikovsky’s music for act one’s dancing toys (crisply played by the ENB...
...ENB now joins the party with Solstice, a bumper pack of recent commissions and classical fireworks performed at the company’s old home on London‘s South Bank....
...‘ENB at Sadler’s Wells’ to May 30, ballet.org.uk ‘21st Century Choreographers’ to May 30, and streaming May 28-June 27, roh.org.uk...
...The Delibes waltz was sweetly played by Gavin Sutherland and the ENB Philharmonic but Holmes’s floor patterns aren’t a patch on Alexei Ratmansky’s ensembles for the Bolshoi and the ENB chorines (weary after...
...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 (very nice work from the ENB...
...The score — with Rhonda Browne its eloquent contralto and Samuel Sakker no less alert as the tenor — was admirably well done by the ENB musicians under Gavin Sutherland....
...I was thrilled by ENB’s superbly clear playing of Song of the Earth, rejoiced at Scottish Ballet’s restoration of the ravishing Baiser de la fée, and I was greatly moved by the power in Northern Ballet’s...
...Vincenzo Lamagna’s lacklustre accompaniment, orchestrated by ENB’s Gavin Sutherland, draws heavily on Adolphe Adam’s original leitmotifs but seldom rises above the incidental....
...And there is Stravinsky, well served by the ENB orchestra under Gavin Sutherland, inspiring ENB’s artists in this ritual where terror and sexual inevitability drive the action....
...(And she deserves a better version of Nutcracker’s sublime pas de deux than the current approximation with ENB.)...
...In 2015, he won the company’s Emerging Dancer award, which is open to all ENB dancers, save its principals....
...ENB’s women said it very tiresomely indeed. The hard-driven dancers win the evening its stars. sadlerswells.com...
...ENB’s dancers roar into their steps and take no prisoners. The effect, especially among the men, is of unrelenting, chest-beating display....
...Nothing in this ENB programme, for all its evident sincerity, comes within a barbed-wired mile of MacMillan’s haunting dance-language for his reproachful revenants....
...The afternoon’s star was Elena Glurdjidze, making her final ENB appearance after 13 years with the company....
...And, before you can say “déjà vu phenomenon”, lo and behold, ENB trots out its very decent Swan Lake to play from January 7 to 18....
...ENB plays Coppélia from Wednesday until next Sunday’s matinee....
...I also believed totally in Daria Klimentová as expressive artist in ENB’s staging....
...It has long been a favourite with ENB, and received here a decent performance, Vadim Muntagirov notably brilliant....
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