Mark Monahan
Arts Editor, Dance Critic and Comedy Critic at The Telegraph
Arts Editor, Dance Critic and Comedy Critic of the Telegraph (late of Harper's), also writing about film from time to time. Personal (t)whitterings only here.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Mark Monahan
“How would you feel about me doing a ballet in your garden?” This was the question, Matt Brady asked Lady Holly Rumbold, whose home, Hatch House in Wiltshire, is set in exquisite grounds that include a 17th-century Dutch walled garden. Her reply was swift: “Oh my God, I love it! Let’s go find Rum!’”Rum, it turned out, was not a celebratory tipple but her husband Sir Henry Rumbold – who, luckily, was as taken with the idea as she was.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Monahan
Ballet Under the Stars in Wiltshire aims to bring the ethos of country house opera to dance - and the company is now spreading its wings"How would you feel about me doing a ballet in your garden?" This was the question, Matt Brady asked Lady Holly Rumbolt, whose home, Hatch House in Wiltshire, is set in exquisite grounds that include a 17th-century Dutch walled garden.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Mark Monahan
It was a snuffly, sleep-deprived critic who took his seat on Thursday evening, sensing that even staying awake for the evening’s 85 minutes of entertainment would be a triumph. By the time it ended – some 15 minutes late, but hey-ho – I felt ready to spring up and run a marathon. A tribute to the great New York-born postmodern choreographer William Forsythe, English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme comes in three zesty, entirely abstract, prop- and set-free parts.
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1 week ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Monahan
It was a snuffly, sleep-deprived critic who took his seat on Thursday evening, sensing that even staying awake for the evening's 85 minutes of entertainment would be a triumph. By the time it ended - some 15 minutes late, but hey-ho - I felt ready to spring up and run a marathon. A tribute to the great New York-born postmodern choreographer William Forsythe, English National Ballet's The Forsythe Programme comes in three zesty, entirely abstract, prop- and set-free parts.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Mark Monahan
Georgiy Melitonovich Balanchivadze - George Balanchine to the world - was the Russian-born choreographer of Georgian descent who gave the US its own lofty, leggy, sparkling strain of neo-classical ballet. He had an astonishing eye for choreographic geometry, while being perhaps counterintuitively flexible in terms of how he created his pieces. Just an "awkward" 17 people in the studio today? Piece of cake - 17 it is. And oh, someone's now turned up late? Marvellous! Let's work that in too.
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Will you see a more giddily enjoyable ballet all year? Somehow, I doubt it (plus, it's on for over a week). My review of ENB's William Forsythe bill at Sadler's Wells last night: https://t.co/ncbVgDcZqZ @ENBallet @Sadlers_Wells
RT @daveainsworth63: Remembering the English actress Charlotte Coleman who was born on this day in 1968. She died aged 33 in 2001. #Charlot…
I enjoyed Lyon Opera Ballet tackling Merce Cunningham @Sadlers_Wells last night. Here's my review: https://t.co/CCFOdwkfO1