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The Ripieno Players have earned quite a name for themselves on the classical music circuit in Oxford. You could tell that much from the large, excited audience that was waiting in St Peter’s Chapel – the orchestra’s home turf – for their Hilary concert on Friday 19th January. Performing under the Ripieno name, the musicians […]
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✮✮✮✮ It is the story we all know and love: rabbit holes, caterpillars and playing cards. Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet brings Alice’s adventures vividly to life. Beginning with the musical ticks of multiple clocks, we are led to the normality of Alice’s family garden party where the children are being told a story by Lewis […]
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✮✮✮✮ As the live orchestra strikes the opening chords to the roaring prelude de Mazurka on the opening night of The English National Ballet’s run of Coppélia at the New Theatre, the curtain rises to reveal the rustic, organic staging masterfully designed by Desmond Heeley. The simple village, traditionally set in medieval Bavaria, is the […]
Continue ReadingBallet dancer Fernando Montaño has recently been described in the British Press as the “Colombian Billy Elliot” but, as I discovered when I attended his talk earlier this term at Wolfson College, he is so much more than that. Born in a small town in Colombia, as a young boy Montaño first saw ballet on […]
Continue ReadingGODS Recently interviewed in this section, Michael Grandage’s West End season has just picked up 4 WhatsOnStage awards, including ‘Best Director’ for Grandage himself. Coincidence? I think not. So, who’s next? CIRCLE The Royal Academy of Dance’s journal Dance Gazette this week published a survey in which ballet company directors revealed the full extent of their (and the […]
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