Klara Coxill | Aitor Viscaroasaga Lopez | Ballet Central | Photo by Bill Cooper
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Klara Coxill | Aitor Viscaroasaga Lopez | Ballet Central | Photo by Bill Cooper
Rowan Parker and Adam Davies in Michael Pink and Christopher Gable’s Dracula, Ballet Central, June 2017. © Bill Cooper.
The selected part concentrates on Dracula and Harker and features 3 vampire ladies – beautifully vamped up by Sophie Hull, Rowan Parker and Brittanie Dillon. Pink’s choreography is as sexy and polished as ever.
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Ballet Central dancers Andrew Glick and Emily Pohl as The Nutcracker Prince and Clara. Photo by Patrick Baldwin.
Jasmine Wallis and Joseph Vaughan in Christopher Marney’s War Letters, Ballet Central, March 2016. © Bill Cooper.
Marney’s War Letters is about war, soldiers and the girlfriends and wives left behind. Audiences really warm to his theatrical approach. But if one is driven by seeing steps and danced movement define character and plot then the pickings can seem very thin, although the students give their all in a work very much about acting.
Emma Hancox and Archie James in Christopher Gable’s Celebration, Ballet Central, March 2016. © Bill Cooper.
The evening opened with Gable’s Celebration. It’s a good choice as it is about the changing relationships between a group of young dancers – which is what the company dancers are having to go through these last few years and especially on the tour. Created for the company in 1995, it’s for 4 males and 4 females, classical and nonchalant at the same time. It’s a nostalgic look at the trials and tribulations of growing up with lots of personality on display.
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Zoe White, John O’Gara and Alice Handford in Leanne King’s Toots Goes to Charleston, Ballet Central, 2014 Tour, May 2014. © Bill Cooper.
Toots Goes to Charleston is a gloriously daft and loving evocation of the 20’s and one of its most famous dances. Gellar’s costumes sparkle and the young dancers sparkle. Every year Ballet Central surprises somehow and this year was no different.