In 1964, George Balanchine extended Mendelssohn's suite A Midsummer Night's Dream with additional Mendelssohn compositions to create his evening-length ballet based on Shakespeare's play. The first act is a plot-driven dance narration of the major themes of the play. The second act's nuptial scene becomes the setting for a love-themed divertissement in the language of…
Nacho Duato's work roots deeply into Western historical precedent, and yet is entirely of our time. His dance vocabulary and line, unquestionably contemporary, nevertheless draw directly from classical ballet. Born in Spain, trained in England, mentored by Jiri Kylian in the Netherlands, Nacho Duato creates work reflecting today's globalization in ballet, while maintaining a distinctive…
A must see: pas de deux from Neumeier’s La Dame aux Camilias with Anna Tsygankova, Dutch National Ballet 2018
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