By Sanjoy Roy The Royal Ballet has followed through on the success of Crystal Pite’s one-act Flight Pattern (2017) by expanding it into a full-evening triptych called Light of Passage. All three acts are cast in shadows set against suspended auroras of light, accompanied by the ebb and flow of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful
By Michael Crabb It’s mid-October, almost six weeks until the premiere of the National Ballet of Canada’s two-million-dollar aspiring blockbuster, MADDADDAM, and much remains to be done. “There were four weeks I was really making material,” says the acclaimed British choreographer Wayne McGregor. “I was trying to invent, to get stuff out of my head,
By Sanjoy Roy When narrative dance works well, it’s gripping: the story is embodied in the performance. When it doesn’t, it looks like much ado about something or other: we sense the physicality but not the story. Like Water for Chocolate, Christopher Wheeldon’s new three-act work for the Royal Ballet (a co-production with American Ballet