• City Ballet: Major themes, moving movements - The San Diego Union-Tribune

    The San Diego Union-Tribune
    City Ballet: Major themes, moving movements
    The San Diego Union-Tribune
    Contrasting themes of love and loss, and life and death are the pulse of City Ballet of San Diego's newest production, staged this weekend at the Spreckels Theatre. The company is opening its 2015-16 season with two premieres by resident choreographers ...
  • The Ballet Barre Workout That Burns, Oh God, It Burns - Deadspin

    Deadspin
    The Ballet Barre Workout That Burns, Oh God, It Burns
    Deadspin
    So New York magazine reported back in September that no one is really doing pilates anymore, which makes sense: It's not exactly the only fitness-niche game in town. Not by a long shot. I've personally tried many of them, from spin to Zumba to hot yoga ...
  • Phoenix Dance Theatre review – dark, deviant fantasy … and balloons

    Phoenix Dance Theatre review – dark, deviant fantasy … and balloons
    Linbury studio, LondonThe Leeds-based company marks 35 years with a triple bill kicking off with Caroline Finn’s Bloom, a creepily beguiling cabaret of odditiesNext year, as Phoenix celebrates its 35th anniversary, the Leeds-based company can pride itself on being one of Britain’s most enduring dance institutions. It may have suffered through numerous changes of direction, but it’s never lost sight of its underlying brand – mixing the popular mainstream with the unexpecte
  • Sasha Waltz & Guests review – savage rites marshal wild energies

    Sasha Waltz & Guests review – savage rites marshal wild energies
    Sadler’s Wells, LondonWaltz’s triple bill is over-stylised at times, but her version of The Rite of Spring skewers the stage with the forceful choreography of revoltBerlin-based choreographer Sasha Waltz has often worked on the borders between dance and opera, so it’s no surprise to find a highly staged, sometimes highly stylised musical sensibility pervading this triple bill of dance works. In L’Après-midi d’un Faune, the shapely designs and flat colours of
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