Reviews for Triple Bill
Bolshoi Ballet in Triple Bill at Royal Opera House
‘Balanchine’s Symphony in C to Bizet’s score is a joyous work made all the more pleasurable by the Bolshoi dancers whose sense of line seems just a little more elongated than anyone else and who now are accustomed to the faster speed of Balanchine’…
Bolshoi Ballet in Triple Bill at Royal Opera House
‘Ratmansky’s own Go for Broke, made last year, uses Stravinsky’s bright and sparky Jeu de cartes score, but jettisons the original theme of poker deals. The result is busy incoherence. As my companion remarked, it was choreography that hit you like a sc…
Bolshoi Ballet in Triple Bill at Royal Opera House
‘His [Ratmansky’s Go For Broke] is a fast-moving ballet that takes every opportunity to play games with and to rhythm, seesawing between well-behaved classicism and a childlike delight in bursts of impish humour.’
Bolshoi Ballet in Triple Bill at Royal Opera House
‘Roland Petit’s Pique Dame, based on The Queen of Spades but danced to Tchaikovsky’s Pathetique Symphony, is filled with choreography that looks like it was purchased as a job lot at an Am-Dram society’s end-of-season boot sale.’
Bolshoi Ballet in Triple Bill at Royal Opera House
‘..this engrossing triple bill is playing for only two nights, vanishing to make way for more traditional fare. It’s a great shame, for the evening shows the company at its gleaming dramatic best.’