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Feature: 23 December 2008
Christmas Fare in
Paris
"Nureyev transformed a complicated and clumsy scenario into
over two and a half hours of sublime dancing," writes Patricia Boccadoro
in her review of the lavish production of Raymonda in Paris.
Review: 9 December 2008
Not Quite Dance
or Theatre - Call it Ars Gratia Binoche
Without the essential
ingredient of self-deprecating irony, actress Juliette Binoche and
choreographer Akram Khan serve up a program that has all the horrible
fascination of "Dancing With the Stars" with none of the kitschy, winking
fun - a recipe for disaster.
Review: 8 December 2008
Matthew Bourne's 'Edward
Scissorhands' Marked by Over and Under-rehearsed
Performers
"Bourne’s dance version, with the exception of a couple
of scenes, merely illustrates the story, adding nothing and in no way
enhancing the original," writes Patricia Boccadoro.
Seen: 20 November 2008
Dancing in the
Louvre
Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code drew enthusiastic fans to the
Louvre. Will dancing in the Louvre do the same?
Review: 24 October 2008
A Tribute to Jerome
Robbins
The Paris Opera Ballet marks the tenth
anniversary of the American choreographer's death.
Review: 10 October 2008
New York City
Ballet in Paris: Great Expectations, Disappointment for
Some
European dance critic Patricia Boccadoro weighs in on the
first visit of the American troupe to the Paris Opera in 43 years.
Review: 21 September 2008
Les Grands Ballets
Canadiens de Montréal
The Canadian dance company marks the 400th
anniversary of the city of Québec.
Portrait: 7 September 2008
Hervé Moreau
Patricia
Boccadoro on Paris Opera Ballet star Hervé Moreau.
News: 4 September 2008
Coming Soon
to DVD: John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias
The recent
filming of John Neumeier's La Dame aux Camélias at the Palais
Garnier features Paris Opera Ballet stars Agnès Letestu and Stéphane
Bullion.
Review: 13 August 2008
Swedish Cross-Dressing
Mocks Catholic Spain
The wild violence and cruelty of Mats Ek's
creation profoundly shocked Catholic Spain.
Review: 28 July 2008
Evolution:
Balanchine, Nureyev, Forsythe
A recent evening at the
Paris Opera Ballet sought to demonstrate the evolution of classical ballet
over the past one hundred years.
Review: 25 June 2008
East Meets West in Sacred
Monsters
Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan at the
Theatre des Champs Elysées.
Feature: 27 May 2008
Finland's Tero
Saarinen Triumphs at Paris Dance Festival
Attractive music,
extravagant staging, glamorous costumes and a particularly inventive use
of videos marked the recent Chatelet Dance Festival in Paris
Review: 5 May 2008
Angelin Preljocaj: Myth, Muscle and the Wrong Music
Half-men, half-horses flex their muscular
bodies to produce startling sculptural effects in Centaures but
even near-nakedness won't distract an audience from the torture of the
music in the Frenchman's new work,Eldorado.
News: 19 April 2008
Pina Bausch Agrees to Film of
Orpheus and Eurydice
Broadcast recently at primie-time on
French and German television, it is the first time that the German
choreographer has accepted to have one of her works recorded on film.
Exhibition: 1 April 2008
Paris Exhibition Honors Roland
Petit
"The Grand 'Old' Man of French ballet, Roland Petit,
will probably go down in dance annals as the most important French
choreographer of the 20th century", writes Patricia Boccadoro.
Interview: 17 March 2008
Rudolf Nureyev at 70 According
to Ariane Dollfus
Born 17 March 1938, Rudolf Nureyev would have
been 70 today. Patricia Boccadoro talks to French journalist Ariane
Dollfus about her new biography of the celebrity Russian dancer.
Feature
Spartacus and His Gladiator Slaves
Battle Roman Legions at the Bolshoi
The Bolshoi returns to Paris
with three programmes including Grigorovich's Spartacus.
Review
Darwin's Evolution Theory
Survives Paris Opera Ballet
British choreographer Wayne McGregor's
Genus, a ballet inspired by Charles Darwin's book On the
Origin of Species.
Reader Comment
Nureyev: Everything He
Ever Said or Did
Kathy Costello in Massachusetts comments
on Dance editor Patricia Boccadoro's review of Nureyev: The Life
by Julie Kavanagh.
Book Review
Nureyev: Everything He
Ever Said or Did
Patricia Boccadoro reviews the latest book about
the world's most famous dancer.
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