Maris Gala, Riga
Maya Plisetskaya 80th birthday tribute
Sabores, the new show from flamenco dancer Sara Baras, begins in an intimate, almost conversational manner. The dancers saunter on, buttoning jackets and pulling on shoes. The musicians pick up their instruments. Heels begin to drill out the beat, legs to extend into sultry lines. Baras enters with two male (…)
Plisetskaya Gala, Royal Opera House, London
The celebrations of Maya Plisetskaya’s 80th birthday (years that her beauty and blazing temperament utterly deny) continue round the world, a fact unprecedented and heart-warming. On Sunday night the Royal Opera House was the setting for a succession of variously splendid or noxious duets, a solo, and the unhappy moment (…)
