A good old-fashioned ballet gala: Nutcracker, Don Q, Swan Lake, Le Corsaire… it’s sometimes just what the doctor ordered. Daniele Cipriani’s Les Étoiles injected the audience in Rome with a generous dose of positive energy administered by some of the world’s best dancers.
It wasn't all cherries. Silvia Azzoni and Oleksandr Ryabko danced Hamburg Ballet repertoire with John Neumeier's Shall We Dance? set to Gershwin’s music and his Adagietto from Mahler’s 5th Symphony. There was also Svetlana Zakharova with her favourite bon-bon, Motoko Hirayama’s Revelation set to John Williams’ theme tune from the film Schindler’s List. In many hands, it would be a piece that could veer toward the obvious, but with Zakharova – who seemed especially inspired – it is seductive and convincing.
Less so with Makhail Lobukhin’s All is Going Wrong, a solo choreographed by Morihiro Ivata, which mixes in a little of Ben Van Cauwenbergh’s Les Bourgeois with a touch of Spartacus and the result is… well… obvious. ...continue reading.
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