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Adam: Giselle (The Royal Ballet)
Marianela Nuñez (Giselle); Vadim Muntagirov (Count Albrecht); Itziar Mendizabal (Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis); Bennet Gartside (Hilarion (A forester)); Johannes Stepanek (Wilfred (Albrecht's Squire)); Elizabeth McGorian (Berthe (Giselle's mother)); Gary Avis (Duke of Courland); Christina Arestis (Bathilde); Eric Underwood (Leader of the Hunt); Olivia Cowley (Moyna); Beatriz Stix-Brunell (Zulme); Pas de sixes (Yuhui Choe; Alexander Campbell; Francesca Hayward; Luca Acri; Yasmine Naghdi; Marcelino Sambé);
"If the acting is superb, it’s given real authority by the dancing. Muntagirov and Nuñez are technically thrilling; she, at her finest moments, can combine an absolute mastery of the choreography, with the illusion that she’s dancing it for the first time." (The Guardian ★★★★)
Adam: Le Corsaire (Théâtre du Capitole, Toulouse)
Maria Gutierrez (The Slave-girl); Davit Galstyan (The Corsair); Takafumi Watanabe (The Sultan); Juliette Thélin (The Sultan’s Favourite Concubine); Demian Vargas (The Corsair’s Companion); Juliana Bastos, Julie Loria (Two Slaves); Henrik Victorin (The Wealthy Slave-trader); Cédric Pons, Joël Sitbon (Two Guards); Kader Belargi (Choreography); David Coleman (Musical Director);
"he Ballet du Capitole’s new production of Le Corsaire represents dance making at a very high level. There is an artistic collaboration at work here that has paid huge dividends, choreographically, musically and scenically. David Coleman has done an admirable job of re-orchestrating what, in the wrong hands, could have been something of a hotch-potch, given that themes from Adolphe Adam’s original score are intercut with additions by Massenet, Arenski and Sibelius. Belarbi has succeeded in capturing the essence of a nineteenth century ballet and in breathing new life into it ... The production is a marvelous distillation of expert collaborative ideas." (Auditorium)
Akram Khan's Giselle (English National Ballet)
Tamara Rojo CBE (Giselle); James Streeter (Albrecht); Jeffrey Cirio (Hilarion); Stina Quagebeur (Myrhta, Queen of the Wilis); Begoña Cao (Bathilde); Fabian Reimair (Landlord); Jung Ah Choi; Adela Ramírez; Maria José Sadles (Giselle's Friends); Artists of the Company (Outcasts, Wilis);
"Giselle has been transformed for the ENB by Akram Khan into the ballet event of the year. Staggeringly beautiful and utterly devastating, it is an electrifying triumph which any dance or theatre fan must not miss." (The Daily Express ★★★★★)
Amelia
Alexandre Castonguay (Cello); Simon Claude (Violin); Njo Kong Kie (Piano & Musical Direction); Nadine Medawar (Vocalist);
"Amelia is nothing but dance, brilliantly shot, relentlesslyin your face, astonishingly fast. The lesson of Amelia...is to dance this hard, this fast, this gloriously while youstill can." (Los Angeles Times)
