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...Act Two’s Arabian dance has traditionally been a foursome, with two outriders posing either side of the main couple during the scary two-handed “po” lifts, but Lukas B Brændsrod and Melissa Hamilton were...
...Bolshoi soloist Jacopo Tissi learned the ballet in less than a fortnight and there were inevitably some rough edges in his crowd scenes but he made an elegant, last-minute partner for Marianela Nuñez....
...Fumi Kaneko was admirably crisp and even in the tip-tilted lifts of the pas de deux at Wednesday’s opening, as was Melissa Hamilton (second cast) partnered by Romeo-in-waiting Reece Clarke....
...The dancers raised their game accordingly, Marianela Nuñez, Valentino Zucchetti and James Hay flitting through Schubert’s Ninth with animatronic precision....
...Marianela Nuñez was beguilingly its star, Thiago Soares her impeccable cavalier. Glorious shapes of dance blossomed. The jewels blazed in Balanchine’s settings....
...I deplore the ill-advised exhumation (by Melissa Hamilton) of the Dying Swan, which is exclusively reserved for Ida Neversayneva of the Trocks, who reveals its truth as an affronted toucan in extremis....
...As with Viscera, performances are splendid: the dancing of Laura Morera, Marianela Núñez, Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb, Melissa Hamilton, Edward Watson, Steven McRae and their colleagues throughout the evening...
...It is stunningly danced by Beatriz Stix-Brunell (the movement warm, eloquent ), by Sarah Lamb and Melissa Hamilton, both ravishing, by Steven McRae and Nehemiah Kish....
...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....
...Splendid performances variously from Sarah Lamb and Marianela Nuñez, from Steven McRae and Sergey Polunin, with a bouquet to Helen Crawford, whose line is ravishing. () www.roh.org.uk...
...It has three roles, that of the Sphinx wasting Marianela Nuñez’s time, and Rupert Pennefather saddled with the blanknesses of Oedipus’s choreography....
...And the beautiful Melissa Hamilton, still in the corps de ballet, made a most promising debut in the final song, the eponymous L’Invitation....
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