Anna Karenina
“Anna Karenina” Carine Auberger, Ivan Abatourov
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The positive resonance to the nearly sold out premiere from “Anna Karenina”, proves that ballet needed not be an elite - happening, when ones handles it, the way Philip Lansdale does. Lansdale’s strong, dark, meaningful, pleasantly choreographed movement, is along way away from the lame hops and skips of the East German TVs. ballet. Matthias Schönebäumer, Stadtblatt The ballet director of the Bielefeld theatre Lansdale, transfers his “Anna Karenina”, from the formal, normal, strictness of neo-classical ballet, in to a field of suspense and freed passionate movement, in this highly dramatic work... A stimulating contribution to the subject of modern ballet story telling. Heidi Weise, Westfälischer Anzeiger Bielefeld once renowned as a back wood of provincial dance has presented with its new ballet director an honest, respectable, and solidly danced, new choreographed version. Bettina Trouworst, Ballet-Journal |