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...Photographer’s assistant, Clément Savel. Stylist’s assistant, Jana Fröhlich. Set designer’s assistant, Simon de Paris...
...And so, laden with jewels to make up for her plain features (her idea), she is carried off to France in a giant golden egg (also her idea), in order to bag her prince....
...Yet Clement Stanley, a taxi driver in the capital, took issue with those who run the Bahamas for not safeguarding the nation’s good name....
...to care about, roaringly obvious costuming, vestigial yoga, an incomprehensible incident involving a jewel and a maharaja, a sardonic rock guitarist (the splendid Chandan Raina) and a less-than-engaging...
...Balanchine’s Jewels might be misread as a masterly exercise in choreographic theatre: three unrelated ballets, tenuously but cunningly enough linked by a jewel’s name, yet each movement ultimately unregarding...
...The jewels blazed in Balanchine’s settings. Tremendous cheers for a company on superb form. To April 21, roh.org.uk...
...“I think it’s very bold,” says Clement Virgo, a director on The Wire and writer of a recent mini-series on slavery, The Book of Negroes. “You would not have had a show called Black-ish 10 years ago.”...
...when dancing Balanchine ballets – works whose lifeblood is the choreography’s miraculous response to a score – were both grandly in evidence and depressingly absent in Tuesday’s Royal Ballet account of Jewels...
...As an alternative to – and escape from – the inevitable Nutcracker, the Royal Ballet this year proposes Jewels, Balanchine’s celebration of scores by Fauré, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, whose worlds he explores...
...I am no stranger to Balanchine’s Jewels. I loved its early performances, and how exquisite was Violette Verdy in Emeralds, how ecstatic Suzanne Farrell and Peter Martins in Diamonds....
...There are also lion-dancers, cohorts of eager minions, a dragon dance, an infestation of danseuses under the misguided impression that they are jewels, fine lighting from Mark Jonathan, and the extremely...
Itziar Mendizabal and Bennet Gartside were the jewels in this pleasing seasonal programme
...Long believed to be the horn of the elusive unicorn, these tusks were arguably the greatest treasures of any cabinet of curiosities – Pope Clement VII acquired one for more than five times the amount he...
...A superb Balanchine dancer, Ashley had been in Moscow with the Bolshoi Ballet in June, setting Diamonds, the final part of Jewels, Balanchine’s trilogy exploring the ideas of cities, styles, women dancing...
...At Clements Ribeiro, for example, Russian-inspired smock tops, peasant blouses and dresses were combined with leather leggings and dramatic accessories to contrast “aggressive futuristic modernity with folk...
...Tuesday brought Balanchine’s Jewels, a performance in many ways as alert and sensitive as one could wish....
...“The German market is the jewel in the crown,” says Nick Cox, who runs Hays’ continental European operations....
...Swans of the Kremlin : Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia, by Christina Ezrahi, Dance Books, RRP£19.99, 338 pages Clement Crisp, the FT’s dance critic, calls Ezrahi’s book a “fascinating study of how the...
...And chic is the key to everything Scènes represents: nuanced academic style; jewels worn with an air; an insouciant assurance born of the music; and wit in showing the dance itself....
...Not being a beer drinker, I enjoy an intimate relationship with this East Anglian jewel for very different reasons....
...To close the evening, the Paquita Grand Pas, that collection of late 19th-century jewels from Marius Petipa’s workshop, dazzlingly restored from notation of the period by Yuri Burlaka....
...Yes, its plot is encrusted with nonsenses, with virtuosic dance numbers and dramatic fal-lals, so that it resembles one of its cheery band of eunuchs who has got at the harem jewel-box and gone ape in front...
...What we see is, in many ways, the treasure that Ninette de Valois acquired for her infant Vic-Wells ballet in 1933 and which she revived at Covent Garden more than 50 years ago – and where it remains a jewel...
...The three paintings commissioned from Poussin in the 1630s by Giulio Rospigliosi (later Pope Clement IX) occupy a special place in his oeuvre....
...I wonder if any ballet has an ending more subtly heart-touching than that of Emeralds, the first part of Balanchine’s Jewels, now returned to Covent Garden....
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