{"id":72378,"date":"2023-02-24T21:35:14","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/ballet-icons-gala-2023-was-an-indubitably-glittering-event-on-stage-and-off-seen-and-heard-international\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:35:14","slug":"ballet-icons-gala-2023-was-an-indubitably-glittering-occasion-on-stage-and-off-seen-and-heard-international","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/24\/ballet-icons-gala-2023-was-an-indubitably-glittering-occasion-on-stage-and-off-seen-and-heard-international\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballet Icons Gala 2023 was an indubitably glittering occasion on stage and off \u2013 Seen and Heard International"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"world-flags-shortcode\"><span class=\"world-flags\" id=\"wf-811441\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" class=\"wf-img\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/world-flags\/images\/flags\/24\/gb.png\" alt=\"United Kingdom\" title=\"United Kingdom\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wf-img\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/world-flags\/images\/flags\/24\/gb.png\" alt=\"United Kingdom\" title=\"United Kingdom\"\/><\/noscript><span class=\"wf-text\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><em>Ballet<\/em><em> Icons Gala<\/em>:<\/strong><\/span> Dancers, English National Ballet Philharmonic \/ Maria Seletskaja (conductor). London Coliseum, 19.2.2023 (JO\u2019D)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110268\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110268\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110268 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Katja-Khaniukova-and-Aitor-Arrieta-in-Chopin-Romance-Malcolm-Levinkind-Logo-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110268 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Katja-Khaniukova-and-Aitor-Arrieta-in-Chopin-Romance-Malcolm-Levinkind-Logo-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aitor Arrieta and Katja Khaniukova in <em>Chopin Romance<\/em> \u00a9 Malcolm Levinkind<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Comprising eleven male-female <em>pas de deux<\/em> and 4 male solos, this 12 months\u2019s Ballet Icons Gala was an indubitably glittering occasion on stage and off. The names on the programme represented a \u2018something for everyone\u2019 within the London Coliseum\u2019s Sunday night time gala viewers: Marianela N\u00fa\u00f1ez and William Bracewell, Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, Margarita Fernandes and Ant\u00f3nio Casalinho (to checklist however six of the twenty-five dancers collaborating). Among the choreographers, not solely Marius Petipa, Kenneth MacMillan, Frederick Ashton and George Balanchine, but additionally Vassily Vainonen and the modern-day Edwaard Laing and Akram Khan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To musical accompaniment, for probably the most half, by English National Ballet Philharmonic (carried out by Maria Seletskaja) and for one of many solos onstage pianist Jacek Mysinski; with lighting by Andrew Ellis and set design by Nina Kobiashvili; in costumes that had been usually luxurious or glowing: every dance piece was offered with as a lot sensitivity as is feasible when fifteen various excerpts or brief, full works are to be carried out in fast succession.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Highlights of the night will differ in keeping with style. The first for this reviewer was Katja Khaniukova (her <em>bourr\u00e9e<\/em> above all, as all the time) and Aitor Arrieta in a chunk by Liam Scarlett set to Chopin. Then Marianela N\u00fa\u00f1ez and William Bracewell, \u2018playing with the music\u2019 within the <em>Grand Pas de Deux<\/em> from <em>Copp\u00e9lia<\/em>. Then Giuseppe Picone giving the UK premiere of a solo, choreographed by the dancer himself, that appeared to look at the aptitude and vulnerability of the performer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Iana Salenko and Dmitry Zagrebin confirmed supreme technical talent in <em>Don Quixote<\/em>. Evelina Godunova and Julian MacKay impressed in what <em>The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet<\/em> (Second Edition) refers to because the \u2018acrobatic daring\u2019 of Vassily Vainonen\u2019s <em>Flames of Paris<\/em>. The viewers as a complete expressed appreciation of Luc\u00eda Lacarra, and her accomplice Matthew Golding, for the emotional high quality they dropped at the intricate <em>Borealis<\/em>, one other UK premiere (to the music of Max Richter), by Edwaard Liang.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Timofej Andrijashenko and Nicoletta Manni, who made her look smoking a cigarette, dazzled in Roland Petit\u2019s ironic and typically sexually express <em>Carmen<\/em>; Jeffrey Cirio was warmly applauded for his demonstration of hunched, bare-chested agony in Akram Khan\u2019s <em>Creature<\/em>. If Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell didn&#8217;t dazzle, surprisingly, in Ashton\u2019s <em>The Dream Pas de Deux<\/em>, the presence of this work on a programme with Balanchine\u2019s <em>Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux<\/em> (Maia Makhateli and Danil Simkin) threw mild on dance author Laura Jacobs\u2019s definition of Ashton\u2019s choreography as basically <em>crois\u00e9e <\/em>and Balanchine\u2019s as basically <em>effac\u00e9<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110270\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110270\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110270 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-500x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-500x316.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-380x240.jpg 380w, https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127.jpg 615w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110270 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-500x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-500x316.jpg 500w, https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127-380x240.jpg 380w, https:\/\/seenandheard-international.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Margarita-Fernandes-and-Antonio-Casalinho-in-Le-Corsaire-Nicholas-MacKay_MACKAY-PRODUCTIONS-e1677149378127.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ant\u00f3nio Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes in <em>Le Corsaire<\/em> \u00a9 Nicholas MacKay (MACKAY PRODUCTIONS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was on the very finish, when the night may need had its dance all danced, that Ant\u00f3nio Casalinho ran on to the stage to start the <em>pas de deux<\/em> that was initially a <em>pas de trois<\/em> from <em>Le Corsaire<\/em>. A chunk that has been carried out in earlier Ballet Icons Galas (by Iana Salenko and Daniil Simkin in 2020), its couple don&#8217;t symbolize lovers. They are a lady and her lover\u2019s slave. The girl, this time, was Margarita Fernandes. The experience, expressiveness and youthful vigour of the 2 dancers made this last piece as recent and glittering as if it had been being danced on the night\u2019s begin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><em>John O\u2019Dwyer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Manon<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Yasmine Naghdi and Reece Clarke<br \/>Music \u2013 Jules Massenet<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Sir Kenneth MacMillan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Maia Makhateli and Daniil Simkin<br \/>Music \u2013 Piotr Tchaikovsky<br \/>Choreography \u2013 George Balanchine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Chopin Romance<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Katja Khaniukova and Aitor Arrieta<br \/>Music \u2013 Frederic Chopin<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Liam Scarlett<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Temperament<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Sergio Bernal<br \/>Music \u2013 Joaqu\u00edn Turina<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Sergio Bernal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Cinderella<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Doroth\u00e9e Gilbert and Audric Bezard<br \/>Music \u2013 Sergei Prokofiev<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Rudolf Nureyev<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Borealis<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Luc\u00eda Lacarra and Matthew Golding<br \/>Music \u2013 Max Richter<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Edwaard Liang<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Copp\u00e9lia Grand Pas de Deux<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Marianela N\u00fa\u00f1ez and William Bracewell<br \/>Music \u2013 Leo Delibes<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Marius Petipa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Don Quixote<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Iana Salenko and Dmitry Zagrebin<br \/>Music \u2013 Ludwig Minkus<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Alexander Gorsky after Marius Petipa<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Moonlight<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Calvin Royal III<br \/>Music \u2013 Claude Debussy<br \/>Piano \u2013 Jacek Mysinski<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Calvin Royal III<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Flames of Paris<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Evelina Godunova and Julian MacKay<br \/>Music \u2013 Boris Asafiev<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Vassily Vainonen<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Elevarsi<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Giuseppe Picone<br \/>Music \u2013 Max Richter<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Giuseppe Picone<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Carmen<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko<br \/>Music \u2013 George Bizet<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Roland Petit<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Dream Pas de Deux<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell<br \/>Music \u2013 Felix Mendelssohn<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Sir Frederick Ashton<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Creature<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Jeffrey Cirio<br \/>Music \u2013 Vincenzo Lamagna<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Akram Khan<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Le Corsaire<br \/><\/em><\/strong>Margarita Fernandes and Ant\u00f3nio Casalinho<br \/>Music \u2013 Adolphe Adam\/Riccardo Drigo\/Ludwig Minkus<br \/>Choreography \u2013 Marius Petipa\/Joseph Mazilier<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] United Kingdom Ballet Icons Gala: Dancers, English National Ballet Philharmonic \/ Maria Seletskaja (conductor). London Coliseum, 19.2.2023 (JO\u2019D) Aitor Arrieta and Katja Khaniukova in Chopin Romance \u00a9 Malcolm Levinkind Comprising eleven male-female pas de deux and 4 male solos, this 12 months\u2019s Ballet Icons Gala was an indubitably glittering occasion on stage and off. 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