English National Opera - The Rite of Spring
From: Friday, 6th November 2009
To: Saturday, 28 November 2009
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Sarah Frater - 10 November 2009
Choreographers are lured to The Rite of Spring like moths to the proverbial flame. Few can resist the glamour and notoriety of the Stravinsky-Nijinsky ballet which caused a riot at its premier in 1913, yet few are up to its musical and narrative demands.
Michael Keegan-Dolan is an able dance maker and innovative director who has had considerable success re-imagining ballets like Giselle and Romeo and Juliet which have been seen at the Barbican. However, his Rite of Spring looks hastily assembled and thinly thought through. The production for English National Opera, paired intriguingly with Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, time-travels the pagan Russian story of a maiden who dances herself to death to safeguard her tribe to a modern-day but backward-seeming rural...
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Mary Bavis - 24 December 2009:
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English National Opera (Producer)
Fabulous Beast (Company)
Edward Gardner (Conductor)
Michael Keegan-Dolan (Choreographer)
Michael Keegan-Dolan (Choreographer)
Rae Smith (Design)
Adam Silverman (Lighting)
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