Pina Bausch/The Rite of Spring. Review by Julia Pascal. How do you keep Pina Bausch’s work alive 13 years after her death? This is the question behind this amazing production of her Rite of Spring.
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State Ballet of Georgia – Swan Lake. Review by Julia Pascal. How thrilling to see the state Baller of Georgia in London for the first time. The Company is lucky enough to have mega star Nina Ananiashvili as Artistic Director.

Swan Lake in the Round. Review by Julia Pascal. This is the most famous of classical ballets and it was conceived for the proscenium arch Italianate style theatre of Imperial Russia when it opened with Marius Petipa’s choreography to Peter Tchaikovsky’s composition at Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet in 1895.

Romeo and Juliet. Review by Julia Pascal. This production has not been seen in London since 2009. Consequently, most Londoners will know revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s famous 1965 version which has regularly been performed by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.

May Be at Sadler’s Wells. Review by Julia Pascal. I walk into a Paris bookshop and ask if they can offer me play texts by contemporary French authors. The assistant directs me to a shelf of plays by Samuel Beckett. To the French, Samuel Beckett is one of theirs. He wrote in French. He lived most of his life in France. But was he Irish? Anglo-Irish? French?

Poetry review – THE TRAPEZE OF YOUR FLESH: Thomas Ovans is impressed by the extensive knowledge behind Charles Rammelkamp’s poetic history of Striptease and Burlesque

New York City Ballet at Sadlers Wells. Review by Julia Pascal. George Balanchine founded New York City Ballet and gave us classical technique without classical narratives. His work is described as neo-classic or even anti-classic. But since his death in 1983 the Company has been looking at other creatives to provide Company identity.
The Forsythe Programme. Review by Julia Pascal. William Forsythe’s latest work Rearray is the most original of the evening’s presentations. Originally created in 2011, it needs a charismatic ballerina.
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