Opera & Dance498 entries
Peony Pavilion
Opens: 13/08/2011 Closes: 15/08/2011
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
National Ballet of China present their 2008 adaptation of one of China's most famous love stories, a Ming dynasty play in which a young girl desperately pursues a lover that she has only met in dreams. Fuses Chinese and western elements in choreography by Fei Bo and score by Guo Wenjing.
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Guardian“The marriage of the entire universe...” while the emotions of the characters remain very codified and reserved, the poetics of the staging act in combination with the dancers' exquisitely nuanced style to draw us into a curiously moving world...
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The Stage“Moving like insects beneath and around gigantic peony flowers...” Although framed in minimalism, it brings huge waves of emotion until, in the end, it carries the full weight of the ballet as the dancers are reduced to a parade of colour...
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Whatsonstage.com“A world of sighs, colours and exhalations that pierce the heart...” It is hard to express how impossibly moving this all is, not least in the size of the company, and the orchestra, which combine in one of the most thrilling and spectacular climaxes I’ve ever seen on a dance stage...
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