Category Archives: Hans van Manen

Hans van Manen Variations – Dutch National Ballet: Live streaming, 5 March 2021

Hans van Manen is one of the great choreographic names of the 20th and 21st centuries, and not just because he somehow makes unitards look good. His deeply musical work is beautifully crafted, inventively detailed in the steps and it’s … Continue reading

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Mixed Bill – Dutch National Ballet Junior Company: 5 July 2019, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, London

Making Sense As part of the Royal Opera House’s Young Talent Festival in the Linbury Theatre, Dutch National Ballet’s Junior Company showed London just how good they are. Aimed at bridging the gap between leaving school and joining a company … Continue reading

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Bausch/Forsythe/van Manen – English National Ballet: Sadler’s Wells, London, 23 March 2017

Pina Will Hans Finally, after gawd knows how long, I finally got to see Pina Bausch’s soil-strewn The Rite of Spring. Not by Tanztheater Wuppertal but, unthinkable as it would have seemed just a few years ago, by English National … Continue reading

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