Ismene Brown
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- Bio
- Ismene was a musician and political journalist before becoming the Daily Telegraph's dance critic for 15 years. She regularly broadcasts on BBC Radio on dance and is a longstanding judge on the Theatrical Management Association annual awards. She also writes on classical music and theatre. She created the original dummy of theartsdesk.com and was its Site Coordinator for two years. She is the dance hub for The Arts Desk
Articles by Ismene Brown
Raven Girl, Royal Ballet/ Witch-Hunt, Bern Ballett/ The Great Gatsby, Northern Ballet
Saturday, 25 May 2013
Ballet is telling stories again. Last night Wayne McGregor’s debut as a narrator followed hot on the heels of Cathy Marston’s Witch-Hunt for Bern Ballett, both in the Royal Opera House complex, and... Read more... |
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's Wells Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
People go to see Sylvie Guillem the way they used to go to Isadora Duncan or Anna Pavlova, to see a living legend, a game-changer. Guillem became one of dance’s handful of game-changers not when she... Read more... |
An Evening for Hospices of Hope, Sadler's Wells Theatre
Tuesday, 14 May 2013
Thank you, Romania, for ballerina Alina Cojocaru, pianist Dinu Lipatti, sopranos Angela Gheorghiu and Ileana Cotrubas, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, tennis player Ilie Nastase, playwright Eugène... Read more... |
10 Questions for Ballerina Alina Cojocaru
Wednesday, 08 May 2013
For the Royal Ballet's exquisite star Alina Cojocaru her dream is performing some of the most physically demanding movements ever devised for a human being - for a paralysed 52-year-old man in... Read more... |
Hofesh Shechter/ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Puz/zle, Sadler's Wells
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
I was trying to remember the last time a choreographer actually tried to make the audience smile in the past few months. Dance-lovers are suckers for guilt. Read more... |
Mayerling, The Royal Ballet/ Le Jeune Homme et La Mort, English National Ballet
Sunday, 21 April 2013
The acting tradition is refined in British ballet to a height not matched anywhere else in the world - distilled in Frederick Ashton’s ballets, expanded in Kenneth MacMillan’s. This repertoire has... Read more... |
Ecstasy and Death, English National Ballet, London Coliseum
Friday, 19 April 2013
Is it death that makes us go back to the ballet? The one artform where it is so glorified, so exquisitely reimagined as an experience of regret, hope, ecstasy or bleakest resignation that we will go... Read more... |
Romeo and Juliet, National Ballet of Canada, Sadler's Wells
Thursday, 18 April 2013
The combination of Romeo, Juliet and the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky should be almost too much for the blood pressure. Those defiant lovers, that emotive yet intellectual young Russian craftsman... Read more... |
Midnight Express, Peter Schaufuss Ballet, London Coliseum
Thursday, 11 April 2013
Yok is a fine Turkish word meaning “there isn’t any”. You use it for “no”, as in, say - is Midnight Express any good? Yok. Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, 2013-14 Season
Tuesday, 09 April 2013
A new ballet on Benjamin Britten's The Prince of the Pagodas headlines Birmingham Royal Ballet's announcement of its 2013-14 season. David Bintley is tackling a tricky score that Britten wrote... Read more... |
Ex-Bolshoi star Natalia Osipova joins The Royal Ballet
Monday, 08 April 2013
The Russian superstar ballerina Natalia Osipova is to join the Royal Ballet, the Royal Opera House announced today. The 26-year-old Moscow ballerina, who made her name as a wunderkind in the Bolshoi... Read more... |
La Bayadère, The Royal Ballet
Sunday, 07 April 2013
Jane Austen would approve, I think, of the plot of La Bayadère, which is about class and wealth getting in the way of love. She might have difficulty with the setting. It is a grand, exotically... Read more... |
Bolshoi full casting up as box office opens
Saturday, 06 April 2013
General booking for the Bolshoi Ballet's Covent Garden season this summer opens on Tuesday (9 April), and the company has at last announced its intended casting. However, it should always be borne in... Read more... |
Still Shocking - The Rite of Spring 100 Years On
Monday, 01 April 2013
Victims driven to death by the mob, women and men violently rutting in animal costumes, a black comedy about a snatched baby, a naked man dancing alone in his own fantasy - many and varied are the... Read more... |
Israel Galván/ Farruquito, Flamenco Festival, Sadler's Wells
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
The annual Sadler’s Wells Flamenco Festival is a hidden treasure-house of brilliance, too quietly sneaking into London in the unappealing limbo between winter and spring, but surely one of the great... Read more... |
Will ballet public boycott the Bolshoi?
Sunday, 17 March 2013
Is the Bolshoi Ballet going to have trouble selling its tickets for its London tour as a result of the acid attack on its artistic director Sergei Filin? A range of opinion is erupting among ballet-... Read more... |
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