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Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

Serata van Manen – Petit, (Van Manen and Petit Evening) opens at La Scala on 23 January. The evening consists of five gems from Hans van Manen and Roland Petit.

The three van Manen pieces are Adagio Hammerklavier, Sarcasmen and Kammerballett, while the Petit pieces are Le combat des anges (from his ballet Proust, ou les intermittences du coeur ) and Le Jeune homme et la Mort which brings company étoile Roberto Bolle back to La Scala’s stage.

Here are the first photos of the rehearsals.

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

Music Ludwig van Beethoven Choreography Hans van Manen Sets and costumes Jean-Paul Vroom Lights Jan Hofstra

Set and costumes from Wiener Staatsballet Production, 2015

Adagio Hammerklavier with Agnese Di Clemente and Gioacchino Starace, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (1)

Adagio Hammerklavier with Martina Arduino and Nicola Del Freo, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (6)

Adagio Hammerklavier with Martina Arduino and Nicola Del Freo, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (4)

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Music Gabriel Fauré Ballet by Roland Petit from Proust, ou les intermittences du coeur pas de deux Morel et Saint Loup Choreographic supervision Luigi Bonino

Teatro alla Scala production

Le combat des anges with Claudio Coviello and Marco Agostino, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (3)

Le combat des anges with Claudio Coviello and Marco Agostino, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (4)

Le combat des anges with Claudio Coviello and Marco Agostino, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (1)

Le combat des anges with Claudio Coviello and Marco Agostino, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (2)

KAMMERBALLETT

Music Kara Karayev, John Cage, Domenico Scarlatti Choreography Hans van Manen Sets and costumes Keso Dekker Lights Joop Caboort

Staging by Opernhaus, Zurich

Kammerballett with Chiara Fiandra and Gioaccihno Starace, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (5)

Kammerballett with Alessandra Vassallo and Gabriele Corrado, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (7)

Kammerballett with Chiara Fiandra and Gioaccihno Starace, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (6)

Kammerballett with Antonella Albano, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (1)

Kammerballett with Francesca Podini and Marco Messina, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (8)

SARCASMEN

Music Sergei Prokofiev Choreography, sets and costumes Hans van Manen Lights Jan Hofstra

New Teatro alla Scala production

Sarcasmen with Nicoletta Manni and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (8)

Sarcasmen with Nicoletta Manni with, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (9)

Sarcasmen with Nicoletta Manni and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (9)

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Music Johann Sebastian Bach Ballet by Roland Petit Choreographic supervision Luigi Bonino Libretto by Jean Cocteau Sets Georges Wakhevitch Costumes Karinska Lights Jean-Michel Désiré Étoile Roberto Bolle (23, 24, 25, 28, 31 Jan., 1 Feb.)

Teatro alla Scala production

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (9)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (8)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (7)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (6)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Roberto Bolle and Nicoletta Manni, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (13)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Martina Arduino and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (3)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Martina Arduino and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (1)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Martina Arduino and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (2)

Le Jeune homme et la Mort with Martina Arduino and Claudio Coviello, photo by Brescia e Amisano Teatro alla Scala (4)

CAST

Thursday 23 January 2020 at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

Woman in black Alessandra Vassallo Woman in brown Chiara Fiandra Woman in yellow Francesca Podini Woman in orange Antonella Albano Man in black Marco Messina Man in brown Gabriele Corrado Man in yellow Domenico Di Cristo Man in orange Gioacchino Starace

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Friday 24 January at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Saturday 25 January 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Alessandra Vassallo, Emanuele Cazzato Third couple Maria Celeste Losa, Marco Agostino

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Domenico Di Cristo Morel Gabriele Corrado

KAMMERBALLETT

Woman in black Antonella Albano Woman in brown Chiara Fiandra Woman in yellow Giulia Lunardi Woman in orange Stefania Ballone Man in black Andrea Risso Man in brown Emanuele Cazzato Man in yellow Endi Bahaj Man in orange Edoardo Caporaletti

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Tuesday 28 January 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Alessandra Vassallo, Emanuele Cazzato Third couple Maria Celeste Losa, Marco Agostino

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Domenico Di Cristo Morel Gabriele Corrado

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Friday 31 January 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Saturday 1 February 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

Firsti couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Roberto Bolle La Mort Nicoletta Manni

Wednesday 5 February 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Alessandra Vassallo, Emanuele Cazzato Third couple Maria Celeste Losa, Marco Agostino

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Domenico Di Cristo Morel Gabriele Corrado

AMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Claudio Coviello La Mort Martina Arduino

Friday 7 February 2020 – at 2.30pm – Young People and Over65

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Alessandra Vassallo, Emanuele Cazzato Third couple Maria Celeste Losa, Marco Agostino

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Domenico Di Cristo Morel Gabriele Corrado

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Nicoletta Manni, Claudio Coviello

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Nicola Del Freo La Mort Marta Romagna

Friday 7 February 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Claudio Coviello La Mort Martina Arduino

Saturday 8 February 2020 – at 8pm

ADAGIO HAMMERKLAVIER

First couple Agnese Di Clemente, Gioacchino Starace Second couple Francesca Podini, Gabriele Corrado Third couple Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE COMBAT DES ANGES

Saint Loup Claudio Coviello Morel Marco Agostino

KAMMERBALLETT

SARCASMEN

Martina Arduino, Nicola Del Freo

LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT

Le Jeune homme Claudio Coviello La Mort Martina Arduino

Photo Album: Rehearsal photos of La Scala’s new mixed bill with Roberto Bolle, Manni, Coviello, Arduino and company Serata van Manen – Petit, (Van Manen and Petit Evening) opens at La Scala on 23 January.

#Alessandra Vassallo #Andrea Risso #Antonella Albano #Claudio Coviello #Gabriele Corrado #Gioacchino Starace #La Scala #Le jeune homme et la mort #Marco Agostino #Maria Celeste Losa #Martina Arduino #Nicola Del Freo #Nicoletta Manni #Roberto Bolle #Roland Petit #Stefania Ballone

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aurelie-dupont · 11 years

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I was planning to make this into gif but then decided that it is too amazing not to be seen in its entirety. This video is for male dancer in particular WATCH it boys, really you should.. Stephane Bullion in "Proust ou Les intermittences du coeur", there are lots of petit batterie, pirouettes and jumps but what makes this variation difficult is that all of the steps must be done in rapid succession one after another.

POB dancers are known to have a very good footwork and here Bullion shows it at it best, his steps are crystal clear and very musical despite the speed of the movement, he also has beautiful ballon that made him seem to float in the air for sometime in certain parts.

I think this has became one of my favorite male variation now.

#stephane bullion #Proust ou Les intermittences du coeur #Paris Opera Ballet #ballet #danseur #dance #Video Rec #etoile

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dance-world · 3 years

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Marcelo Gomes and Guillaume Côté in “Proust, ou Les Intermittences du Coeur” - photo by Gene Schiavone

#marcelo gomes #guillaume côté#guillaume cote #proust ou les intermittences du coeur #gene schiavone #dance #ballet #ballerino #danseut #tanzer #dancer #bailarín #ballet men

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dance-world · 3 years

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Antonino Sutera and Mick Zeni, “Proust ou les intermittences du coeur” - Gala des étoiles, Teatro alla Scala 2011

#antonino sutera #nino sutera #mick zeni #proust ou les intermittences du coeur #dance #ballet #dancer #danseur #ballerino #bailarín #tanzer #ballet men #male dancers

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strechanadi · 6 years

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Mathieu Ganio, Roberto Bolle

Le combat des anges

photo: Hidemi Seto

#ballet #danseur #etoile #Paris Opera Ballet #Teatro Alla Scala #Mathieu Ganio #roberto bolle #proust ou les intermittences du coeur #le combat des anges #gala #world ballet festival #world ballet festival 2018

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gramilano · 5 years

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Wiener Staatsballet, Sylvia, photo Ashley Taylor

This morning, Frédéric Olivieri, director of La Scala’s ballet company, announced the theatre’s 2019-2020 season:

Sylvia

14 December 2019 – 14 January 2020

Music: Léo Delibes Choreography: Manuel Legris based on Louis Mérante and others Story and libretto: Manuel Legris and Jean-François Vazelle based on Jules Barbier and Jacques de Reinach Sets and costumes: Luisa Spinatelli Assistant for sets and costumes: Monia Torchia Lighting: Jacques Giovanangeli

Conductor: Kevin Rhodes

New production Teatro alla Scala; Coproduction with Wiener Staatsballett

Wiener Staatsballet, Sylvia, photo Ashley Taylor 01

Wiener Staatsballet, Sylvia, photo Ashley Taylor 02

The ballet first appeared on the stage of the Paris Opera in 1876. Continuing in the French tradition, Manuel Legris created in his version in 2018 for the Vienna State Ballet, coproduced with La Scala. It will be the ballet that opens the season on 14 December with a preview performance for young people, followed by the official opening on 17 December 2019. The production is designed by Luisa Spinatelli who designed La Scala’s new production of Le Corsaire.

Sarcasmen, Het Nationale Ballet, photo Hans Gerritsen

Serata van Manen – Petit

24 January – 8 February 2020

Adagio Hammerklavier

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Adagio from Piano Sonata No. 29 Choreography: Hans van Manen Sets and costumes: Jean-Paul Vroom Lighting: Jan Hofstra

Kammerballett

Music: Kara Karayev, John Cage, Domenico Scarlatti Choreography: Hans van Manen Sets and costumes: Keso Dekker Lighting: Joop Caboort

Sarcasmen

Music: Sergei Prokofiev, Sarcasmes Op. 17 Choreography and costumes: Hans van Manen Lighting: Jan Hofstra New production

Le combat des anges

Music: Gabriel Fauré, Elégie Op. 24 for cello and piano From Roland Petit’s ballet Proust, ou les intermittences du coeur pas de deux Morel et Saint Loup Remounted by Luigi Bonino

Le jeune homme et la mort

Music: J S Bach, Passacaglia in C minor 582 Choreography: Roland Petit Remounted by Luigi Bonino Story by Jean Cocteau Sets: Georges Wakhevitch Costumes: Karinska Lighting: Jean-Michel Désiré

Étoile Roberto Bolle (24, 25, 28, 31 January)

Adagio Hammerklavier, Het Nationale Ballet, photo Hans Gerritsen

Hans van Manen photo Erwin Olaf

Le combat des anges, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

Roland Petit at La Scala, photo Marco Brescia, Teatro alla Scala

Continuing the project of chamber ballets at La Scala is this programme with five pieces by Hans van Manen and Roland Petit. Sarcasmen and Kammerballett are being performed at La Scala for the first time.

Madina

22 March – 16 April 2020

Music: Fabio Vacchi Story by Emmanuelle de Villepin taken from her book La ragazza che non voleva morire Choreography: Mauro Bigonzetti Lighting and sets: Carlo Cerri Costumes: Maurizio Millenotti

Étoile Roberto Bolle (22, 24 March; 1, 2, 16 April 2020)

Conductor: Michele Gamba

Narrator: Filippo Timi

World premiere Teatro alla Scala

Fabio Vacchi

Mauro Bigonzetti

Madina is a new musical and choreographic creation on universal themes, rarely touched on in ballet. With choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti and a specially written score by Fabio Vacchi based on Emmanuelle de Villepin’s novel The Girl Who Did Not Want to Die.

The young Madina, a kamikaze but not by choice, chooses not to kill and does not want to die. A work abundant with mixed feelings and hope for change, of ancestral impulses, symbolic places, and the perverse dynamics of violence that kills itself, where good and evil are opposed but continue to mingle.

Timofej Andrijashenko in Romeo and Juliet, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2016

Romeo and Juliet

29 April – 15 May 2020

Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan Sets: Mauro Carosi Costumes: Odette Nicoletti Lighting: Marco Filibeck Conductor: Felix Korobov

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet returns in the production created for La Scala in 2010 by Mauro Carosi and Odette Nicoletti. It will be accompanied by the Orchestra of the La Scala Academy conducted by Felix Korobov.

Presentation, Scuola di Ballo Accademia Teatro alla Scala, photo Ilaria Elena Borin

Performance by the Ballet School of the La Scala Academy

28 May – 21 June 2020

Présentation Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 23 From an idea by Frédéric Olivieri

Prometeo Music: Ludwig Van Beethoven, The Creatures of Prometheus (Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus), Op. 43 Choreography: Heinz Spoerli World premiere Teatro alla Scala Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer

The 200-year-old ballet school brings to La Scala’s stage a new work by Heinz Spoerli to the only ballet Beethoven wrote, Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus. 2020 marks the 250 anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Swan Lake, photo Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala

Swan Lake

24 June – 9 July 2020

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev from Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov Sets: Ezio Frigerio Costumes: Franca Squarciapino Conductor: Michail Jurowski

With the French director, Frédéric Olivieri, back at the helm of La Scala’s corps de ballet, it’s out with the Alexei Ratmansky and a return to Nureyev’s production. It is to be hoped that both productions can coexist. This version was first mounted at La Scala in 1990.

La Dame aux Camélias, with Svetlana Zakharova, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2017

La Dame aux camélias

18 – 30 September 2020

Music: Frédéric Chopin Choreography: John Neumeier Sets and costumes: Jürgen Rose (Staatsoper Stuttgart 1978) Lighting: John Neumeier Étoiles Svetlana Zakharova and Roberto Bolle (18, 23, 26, 29 September 2020) Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer

La Dame aux camélias with Roberto Bolle, photo by Brescia, Teatro alla Scala

La Dame aux Camélias, with Roberto Bolle and Svetlana Zakharova, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2017

La Dame aux Camélias, with Timofej Andrijashenko and Nicoletta Manni, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2017

La Dame aux camélias with Svetlana Zakharova

One of John Neumeier’s most representative pieces, La Dame aux Camélias, shows his fondness for the narrative ballet. On the podium, Theodor Guschlbauer, an expert in the French repertoire, returns to conduct the Orchestra of the La Scala Academy.

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Act 1 snowscene, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2018

The Nutcracker

3 – 20 October 2020

Music: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography: George Balanchine Sets and costumes: Margherita Palli Lighting: Marco Filibeck Conductor: Felix Korobov

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2018 02

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Nicola Del Freo as Sugar Cane, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2018

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Samuele Berbenni as Mother Ginger, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2018

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker®, Martina Arduino as Dewdrop, photo by Brescia e Amisano, Teatro alla Scala 2018

This new production of Balanchine’s The Nutcracker opened the current ballet season. Felix Korobov returns to the podium conducting the Orchestra of the La Scala Academy.

La Scala Ballet Season 2019 – 2020 This morning, Frédéric Olivieri, director of La Scala’s ballet company, announced the theatre's 2019-2020 season: Sylvia…

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gramilano · 6 years

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THE MOCKRACY with Daniel Proietto by Dasa Wharton

The reviews may have been less positive for Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion than past editions — in 2012, Judith Mackrell for The Guardian wrote that the programme was “one of real intelligence and surprising moments of passion” — but the evening got off on the wrong foot. Daniel Proietto’s monologue was an introductory piece but, as Luke Jennings pointed out in The Observer,

One can imagine this seeming like a good idea at a planning session, but in the event The Mockracy (as the monologue was titled) fell flat.

Lynette Halewood for Dance Tabs explains:

As the audience enters before the scheduled curtain up, Proietto is already on stage, dressed in a fascist style uniform, chatting to us. He urges us to keep our phones on and take as many pictures as possible. There are long rambles about Trump, Putin and the American prison system. The lights stay up. We check our watches. Ten minutes pass. The realisation sinks in that this is the performance, not an introduction. There will be no dancing to speak of, just one dancer babbling inanely. There are heckles from the audience (real or planted, it was hard to care which). I suspect this is intended as challenging and provocative but it comes across as boring and banal. He supposedly has a change of heart and gives us the big speech about living together from Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator. Chaplin did it a lot better.

The next evening Putrov, one imagines, had convinced Proietto to cut it short and just the Chaplin speech remained. But as Halewood says,

The goodwill of the audience to any subsequent works was seriously diminished.

A shame, as there were many fine things to witness.

Here is a selection of photos from the dress rehearsal by Dasa Wharton, and of the first night by Angela Kase.

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, Performed by Francesca Hayward & Ivan Putrov by Angela Kase

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, with Ivan Putrov by Angela Kase

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, Performed by Francesca Hayward & Ivan Putrov by Angela Kase 01

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, with Ivan Putrov by Angela Kase 01

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE, Performed by Francesca Hayward & Ivan Putrov by Dasa Wharton

Ivan Putrov and Francesca Hayward (the only woman on stage) partner in Le Spectre de la Rose. Putrov is a frisky Rose in strawberry sherbet tights; Hayward’s footwork is dazzling, her figure, neck and bearing lovely. – Evening Standard

Pas de deux from PROUST OU LES INTERMITTENCES DU COEUR, Performed by Alessandro Staiano & Marian Walter by Dasa Wharton

Pas de deux from PROUST OU LES INTERMITTENCES DU COEUR, Performed by Alessandro Staiano & Marian Walter by Dasa Wharton 01

Pas de deux from PROUST OU LES INTERMITTENCES DU COEUR, Performed by Alessandro Staiano & Marian Walter by Dasa Wharton 02

Alessandro Staino and Marian Walter are like Olympians from a marble frieze brought to life. – Evening Standard

Excerpt from SWANSONG, third movement, Performed by Matthew Ball by Dasa Wharton 02

Excerpt from SWANSONG, third movement, Performed by Matthew Ball by Dasa Wharton 01

Excerpt from SWANSONG, third movement, Performed by Matthew Ball by Dasa Wharton

The Royal Ballet’s Matthew Ball is mesmerising in Christopher Bruce’s Swansong as the political prisoner dreaming of freedom. A lustrous if occasionally lightweight performer, Ball seems liberated by off-classical roles, and in Swansong, and in Ondiviela’s System/AI, he displays an authority and a command of stage space that promises great things to come. – The Observer

Matthew Ball was absolutely mesmerising. – The Times

SINNERMAN, Performed by Danielle Proietto, Choreography Alan Lucien Øyen by Angela Kase

SINNERMAN, Performed by Danielle Proietto, Choreography Alan Lucien Øyen by Dasa Wharton 01

SINNERMAN, Performed by Danielle Proietto, Choreography Alan Lucien Øyen by Dasa Wharton

The audience also liked Daniel Proietto in a solo made by Alan Lucien Øeyen for an earlier Men in Motion. In Sinnerman he appears in a bodysuit covered in sequins, which catch the light dramatically. – Dance Tabs

JINGLING FROM THE ZILLS, Performed by lrek Mukhamedov, Choreography Arthur Pita by Dasa Wharton

At any age you are good for dance. Dance is inclusive, intimate and open at the same time, unexpected and momentous, magical and hypnotic. Expect all this from Men in Motion. – Ivan Putrov, Sadler’s Wells blog

BALLET 101, Performed by Giovanni Princic, Choreography Eric Gauthier by Dasa Wharton 01

BALLET 101, Performed by Giovanni Princic, Choreography Eric Gauthier by Dasa Wharton 02

BALLET 101, Performed by Giovanni Princic, Choreography Eric Gauthier by Dasa Wharton

Giovanni Princic (from Dutch National Ballet), a sleek mover with a charm well suited to the comedy and devilish dancing of Eric Gauthier’s Ballet 101. – The Times

CLAIR DE LUNE, Performed by Mathieu Ganio, Choreography Alastair Marriott by Angela Kase

CLAIR DE LUNE, Performed by Mathieu Ganio, Choreography Alastair Marriott by Angela Kase 01

Highlights include Mathieu Ganio in Clair De Lune, wearing feathered epaulettes like a wonderful, tragic dying swan, romantic and introspective. A marvellous dancer. – Evening Standard

PETRUSHKA, Performed by Anton Lukovkin by Dasa Wharton

PETRUSHKA, Performed by Anton Lukovkin by Dasa Wharton 01

PETRUSHKA, Performed by Anton Lukovkin by Dasa Wharton 02

Anton Lukovkin formerly of English National Ballet, gave us a brief impassioned solo from Fokine’s Petrushka, finally flopping as if someone had cut the puppet’s strings. The character was strongly felt and communicated, but it was still a frustrating experience to see it so completely out of context. – Dance Tabs

JINGLING FROM THE ZILLS, Performed by lrek Mukhamedov, Choreography Arthur Pita by Dasa Wharton 02

JINGLING FROM THE ZILLS, Performed by lrek Mukhamedov, Choreography Arthur Pita by Dasa Wharton 01

JINGLING FROM THE ZILLS, Performed by lrek Mukhamedov, Choreography Arthur Pita by Dasa Wharton

I don’t miss dancing, but performing is one of the things that will never disappear out of your blood, out of your body, your mind and feeling. If when I am walking around with a stick someone comes and asks me if we can create something new I probably would say yes. – Irek Mukhamedov in The Times

The last word went to Irek Mukhamedov, who closed the evening dancing Jingling from the Zills, a funny new solo created for him by Arthur Pita. – The Times

Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion at the London Coliseum in pictures The reviews may have been less positive for Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion than past editions — in 2012, Judith Mackrell for The Guardian wrote that the programme was “one of real intelligence and surprising moments of passion” — but the evening got off on the wrong foot.

#Arthur Pita #Dutch National Ballet #English National Ballet #Ivan Putrov #Matthew Ball

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