The Royal Ballet - Electric Counterpoint/Asphodel Meadows/Carmen
From: Wednesday, 5th May 2010
To: Saturday, 15 May 2010
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Our Review:
Sarah Frater - 12 May 2010
Good ballet choreographers are in such short supply that it’s easy to load emerging dance makers with laurels they don’t fully deserve. Expecting them to carry the torch for classical ballet is another burden they can do without while they learn their craft, even if they are very good, and if they are only able, disappointment for everyone is inevitable.
Tempting though it is to crown someone as the new choreographic king, what’s needed is a more measured approach to their work - how they use dancers, the collaborators they choose, and how each piece they make grows from the last.
Having said all that, all the signs suggest that Liam Scarlett is a talent to watch. The Royal Ballet dancer is only 24, but he has made several small-scale pieces for the company and other troupes, and has just created a new work for the main stage of the Opera House.
In Asphodel Meadows he wisely keeps to what he knows,...
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Jemmy - 6 May 2010:
A cracking good evening. Electric Counterpoint even better than when I saw it with the same cast two years ago, sarah Lamb is just diaphanous heaven. Could do without most of the text, though. Aspodel Meadows is a wonderful new work by youngster Liam Scarlett, highly inventive, great chemistry between Rojo and Gartside in particular. And the lady had a busy evening with her unsurprisingly matchless interpretation of Carmen. A triple bill that worked really well....
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Coutts (May 5) (Corporate Sponsor)
Barry Wordsworth (Asphodel Meadows) (Conductor)
Pavel Sorokin (Carmen) (Conductor)
JS Bach (Electric Counterpoint) (Music)
Steve Reich (Electric Counterpoint) (Music)
Christopher Wheeldon (Electric Counterpoint) (Choreographer)
Jean-Marc Puissant (Electric Counterpoint) (Design)
Natasha Chivers (Electric Counterpoint) (Lighting)
Michael Nunn (video artist - Electric Counterpoint) (Other)
William Trevitt (video artist - Electric Counterpoint) (Other)
Mukul Patel (Electric Counterpoint) (Sound)
Georges Bizet (Carmen) (Music)
Rodion Shchedrin (arrangement - Carmen) (Music)
Rodion Shchedrin (percussion - Carmen) (Music)
Mats Ek (Carmen) (Choreographer)
Marie-Louise Ekman (Carmen) (Design)
Goran Westrup (Carmen) (Lighting)
Pompea Santoro (staging - Carmen) (Other)
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