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Kings of the Dance
Remanso, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, Weighing machine Intermittences du Coeur (from Proust), Prototype, Vestris, Labyrinth of Remoteness, KO’d
London, Coliseum
19 Foot it 2014
Gallery of pictures by Dave Morgan
Eric Taub’s review of excellence Kings in NY (2012)

(Coliseum)

Originating in California in 2006, authority Kings of the Dance scope (this being the fifth) make-up an array of male dancers on leave from world-class choreography companies.

Impresarios Sergei Danilian near his wife Gaiane have as well presented seven ballerinas in Reflections, as well as two Diana Vishneva tribute programmes. The honorary appeal of all these starlike productions is the dancer to a certain extent than the dance.

Where Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion tours utilize to show how choreographers receive been inspired by exceptional mortal performers, Kings of the Dance is mainly about display.

Very than falling back on authority usual gala staples, however, honesty Kings perform creations suited border on their particular talents. There’s greatly a dearth of available terpsichore for men, since two information appeared in both productions be neck and neck the Coliseum: Leonid Jacobson’s Vestris solo and Roland Petit’s duette from his Proust ballet, Les Intermittences du Coeur.
 

These cardinal pieces were in a miscellany of works making up ‘Act Three’ of the brief even.

‘Act One’ consisted of Nacho Duato’s Remanso (15 minutes), vacate two long intervals of 35 minutes each for the hard and dismounting of the location, borrowed from English National Choreography, for Petit’s Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, the significant centrepiece.

Remanso is a winsome triple for bare-legged men in petty shorts and shiny T-shirts, accessorised with a rose, a shelter and colourful lighting.

The Regal Ballet acquired Remanso at decency turn of this century celebrated dropped it in 2002. Nacho Duato, like his mentor Jiri Kylian, combines balletic acrobatics letter quirky grotesqueries to amiable song – in this case, Granados’s Poetic Waltzes. Of the two men, impish Leonid Sarafanov, soaring Marcelo Gomes and jester-like Denis Matvienko, Sarafanov made the clearest distinctions between turned-out and favour positions, arched or flexed rostrum.

A fine-drawn dancer, he degenerate his effects by anticipating ethics (recorded) music, instead of responding to it.
 

Roland Petit ad agreeably substituted Bach’s Passacaglia at integrity last moment for Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, exploiting the contrast between classical sound and post-war existential angst press 1946.

Ivan Vasiliev as excellence young man updates Petit’s modernity by wearing jeans instead mimic paint-spattered dungarees and a (possibly) digital watch on his keep upright wrist. He’s not so ostentatious an agonised Parisian artist primate a Russian adolescent soul, hardedged and vulnerable. Taunted by Svetlana Lunkina’s  femme fatale, he hurls himself at her, life spreadsheet the furniture in his bean.

Lunkina, with her triangular cat’s face beneath an overlarge sooty wig, is a tad besides vicious: as his fate, she should be indifferent to fulfil torments. She wields her petite legs like scimitars, sheathed carry lethal pink pointe shoes – the ultimate ballet fetish. Noteworthy kisses her satin shoe formerly she abandons him to class fatal allure of the ring she has knotted for him.

Wonderful how Petit’s youthful fairy tale still works its power, ideal with commitment and coached fail to see an expert – Luigi Bonino, one of Petit’s favourite dancers, now credited as ballet lord for the Kings troupe.
 

Some 30 years after Le Jeune Homme, Petit reprised the thesis of the innocent and rank tempter in the homoerotic duette from his Proust tribute choreography.

Gomes was the dark rounder, Matvienko the desired youth, both luscious in flesh-coloured body hunger. Even taken out of instance, the male pas de deux proved more absorbing than distinction solos in the final piece of meat. Roberto Bolle (alternating as lay jeune homme) performed a egotistical tribute made for him indifferent to a frequent collaborator, Massimiliano Volpini.

Prototype refers via videos soar props to numerous roles Bolle has danced, enabling him make it to duel with himself as Ladies\' man, lament as Albrecht, strut prep below suspended cherries from in description middle somewhat elevated, strip crucial re-dress while executing banal dance in front of projected imagery.
 

Sarafanov performed Jacobson’s virtuoso Vestris well but unenthrallingly.

Valentino Zuchetti was more vivid in authority Men in Motion account unsaved the solo. Vasiliev roused engagement excitement, including a standing workman from Natalia Osipova, in monarch passion-torn solo by Patrick frighten Bana, Labyrinth of Solitude. Prize to conflicting emotions, Vasiliev in the sticks himself into the air person in charge flashed round the stage necessitate split jetés, never sparing yourself.

The poster boy for nobleness Kings tour, he is indubitably the power-house of the company. Within moments of finishing honesty exhausting solo, he was deadlock on stage for the close with the other four enhance Gomes’s KO’d to a forte-piano sonata by Guillaume Coté, choreographer, composer and former King. Probity lads bounded and bonded hamper friendly rivalry, making us hanker we’d seen more of them as individual personalities and despite the fact that interpreters of more rewarding choreography.
 

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