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...On Before — or something very like it — was originally made a decade ago in collaboration with Acosta’s fellow Royal Ballet principal Zenaida Yanowsky....
...So far, the government has avoided requesting regional military support. South Africa and Angola, with the region’s two biggest militaries, have strained finances....
...“We’re stupid — we let ourselves be mistreated,” says Zenaida Chávez, whose daughter Linda Olguín Chávez went back to her abusive partner, only to be stabbed to death, her throat cut, in 2014....
...So does the country’s president, Felipe Nyusi. Apart from the promise of gas, the region is an economic backwater....
...Why then, the thought occurs, must such artists be displayed in other more recent stagings so modish and arid? To May 13, roh.org.uk/mayerling...
...Zenaida Yanowsky and Gary Avis make complete emotional sense of the loveless Edwardian couple who seduce a pair of adolescent cousins....
...Maddeningly, Johan Kobborg’s flawless 2005 Royal Ballet production left the company when he did so we will not be seeing the whole ballet any time soon. Would begging letters help?...
...Better music might have given an emotional lift but the writing is so thin, so formulaic that it’s hard to tell good times from bad. Both dancers are in great shape....
...“One of the joys of this job is there’s so much repertoire, but I was really keen to bring it back now that we have so many great dance actors,” he says....
...It is dance artful, impeccably made, rewarding to perform, and the Royal Ballet’s lovers — the enchanting Emma Maguire and Alexander Campbell, the commandingly beautiful Zenaida Yanowsky with Nehemiah Kish...
...It was first given in 2012, and I had assumed that this rachitic drama – a throwback to the worst British B-movies of the 1950s – would die where it fell, so inscrutable its action, so predictable its mumming...
...These women – including Zenaida de Jesús, a shoe seller who is repaying her 3,500 peso ($268) loan in weekly 251 peso ($19) instalments – typically never had access to credit before....
...With a play having so complex and so “inward” a narrative as The Winter’s Tale, the translation of spoken text into dance-theatre is a vexed matter....
...To the rescue came the cast of Rubies, led by Sarah Lamb, Steven McRae, Zenaida Yanowsky, who sped through Stravinsky’s Capriccio for piano and orchestra, and told us that life and dance were not extinct...
...This great work, driven by its music, is still devastating, and finds in Zenaida Yanowsky a strong Chosen One....
...Barry Kay’s design is white and gold and opulent; Glazunov’s score even more so....
...I saw early performances of these ballets in Germany: their integrity of means was astonishingly strong, and remains so....
...The Royal Ballet’s cast dashed and flashed, took on the score’s identity, and Sarah Lamb and Zenaida Yanowsky were its splendid focus....
...The event now repeats itself, and can best be described as the same – only, to my unimpressed gaze, drearily more so....
...But the dramatic ducking and weaving, the oh-so-clever inventions, that have been necessary to bring Lewis Carroll’s tale to the ballet stage have produced a work more frantic than compelling, more feverish...
...And it was that growing influence that so worried many members of the nobility....
...It is not, perhaps, difficult to fathom that, with only two dancers (Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky), the forces are less than prohibitively expensive, even with the addition of the fine Pegasus Choir, who...
...Action is clip-joint cliché and Zenaida Yanowsky, happily returning to the stage as Dancing Anna, is the victim of man-handling, the only sin (other than tedium) manifest in the performance....
...A second cast more sympathetic to Ashton’s style was led by Zenaida Yanowsky with grace and unfailing intelligence. ★★★★☆ Tel: +44 (0)20 7304 4000...
...It is a fine reading, matched by Zenaida Yanowsky as the second soloist, cutting big swathes of dance with uncompromising verve....
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