Out of 148 dance performances at 27 different venues across London during 2014 as well as another 22 performances around the UK and in Russia, Poland, Spain, France and Belgium – Graham Watts from Londondance gives a month by month run down of his highlights in 2014… JULY The Russian (…)
In this thoroughly enjoyable song and dance junket, the big question is, who is sending up whom? Rimsky Korsakov created some of his most exquisitely sensual and thundering melodies to evoke a romantic Russian history. Think of an excitable Genghis Khan galloping about the Central Steppes of Asia. In fact (…)
The former Bolshoi star, Andris Liepa, 52, returns to the London Coliseum from 8th to 19th July with a two-week programme in his itinerant series of Les Saisons Russes du XX1e Siècle. This will feature a triple bill of Liepa’s productions of Petrushka, Chopiniana and the Polovtsian Dances (from Borodin’s opera, Prince Igor) on 11th/12th July, followed by seven performances (…)
The celebrations of Maya Plisetskaya’s 80th birthday continue round the world, a fact unprecedented and heart-warming. On Sunday night the Royal Opera House will be the setting for a succession of variously splendid duets and solo in order to celebrate an iconic Russian ballerina. The programme will be presented by (…)
