Judith Flanders
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- Bio
- Judith is the author of A Circle of Sisters, a biography of Alice Kipling, Louisa Baldwin, Agnes Poynter and Georgiana Burne-Jones, The Victorian House: Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed, and Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian England. Her new book, The Invention of Murder, was recently published in paperback. She writes on the arts and books for the Spectator, the Wall Street Journal, the Sunday Telegraph and the TLS.
Articles by Judith Flanders
Laurencia, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum
Wednesday, 03 April 2013
It’s not often you go to a ballet to watch a history lesson unfold, but Laurencia, the 1939 Soviet ballet choreographed by Vakhtang Chabukiani, gives us exactly that, and a gripping one under the... Read more... |
Don Quixote, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum
Sunday, 31 March 2013
If you want virtuosity, there’s only one place to be in London right now, and that’s watching the Mikhailovsky’s fine production of that demented old warhorse, Don Quixote, with Natalia Osipova and... Read more... |
Giselle, Mikhailovsky Ballet, London Coliseum
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
When the Bolshoi’s wunderkinder, Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev, suddenly left the company two years ago, the dance world played endless guessing-games as to where they would end up. It was like... Read more... |
The Metamorphosis, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Tuesday, 19 March 2013
“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from a troubled dream, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect.” In one of the most famous opening lines in literature, Franz Kafka gives... Read more... |
Vollmond, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells
Sunday, 24 February 2013
If you are a Bausch newbie, Vollmond (Full Moon) may well be the place to start. “It’s a full moon,” says Nazareth Panadero, giving us a cynical smirk. “Don’t get drunk,” she adds before sauntering... Read more... |
La Valse/ Monotones/ Marguerite & Armand, Royal Ballet
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Genius does not mean having no influences. Monotones, one of the very greatest of Frederick Ashton's ballets, is heavily influenced by other works: by George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations and... Read more... |
Onegin, Royal Ballet
Sunday, 20 January 2013
The worldwide success of John Cranko’s 1960s version of Tchaikovsky’s opera, in turn an adaptation of Pushkin’s verse-drama, might have taken even the choreographer by surprise. Tchaikovsky himself... Read more... |
The Firebird/In the Night/Raymonda, Royal Ballet
Sunday, 30 December 2012
It’s hard to work out why the Royal Ballet has not indulged in more Jerome Robbins, so eminently suited does it seem for their taste for emotional understatement. In the Night had a few outings in... Read more... |
Cesena, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas, Sadler’s Wells
Friday, 09 November 2012
Well, if De Keersmaeker made us work hard for our enlightenment earlier in the week, we more than get our reward with her triumphant, astonishing Cesena in the second part of her double-programme... Read more... |
En Atendant, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas, Sadler’s Wells
Tuesday, 06 November 2012
No one ever accused of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker of thinking small. Or not thinking, for that matter. Her international career began with a bang, when with only her second work she created Fase,... Read more... |
Viscera/Infra/Fool's Paradise, Royal Ballet
Sunday, 04 November 2012
A new Liam Scarlett ballet has become an event, even as, in this case, Scarlett’s home company, the Royal Ballet, is recreating a work he choreographed last January for Miami City Ballet – the young... Read more... |
Nosferatu, TR Warszawa and Teatr Narodowy, Barbican Theatre
Thursday, 01 November 2012
The famous count could not have a more theatrical pedigree if he tried. The great actor-manager Henry Irving – tall, preternaturally thin, with a fixed glare (due, apparently, to extreme myopia) and... Read more... |
Swan Lake, Royal Ballet
Thursday, 11 October 2012
The Royal Ballet’s autumn season began on Monday, but this was the eagerly awaited Swan Lake. Natalia Osipova, ex-Bolshoi, now principal with American Ballet Theater and the Mikhailovsky in St... Read more... |
Enquirer, National Theatre of Scotland
Saturday, 06 October 2012
Site-specific theatre is hard – where to put the audience, can they stand for nearly two hours, how do we enable them to see/hear, most importantly, what is the purpose of the site and how is it to... Read more... |
Timon of Athens, National Theatre
Wednesday, 18 July 2012
As the much-loved Arthur Marshall so profoundly noted, Ibsen is “not a fun one”. One could, with as much truth, say the same about Shakespeare’s rarely staged Timon of Athens: its misanthropy,... Read more... |
Der Fensterputzer, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Sadler’s Wells
Tuesday, 19 June 2012
It may be that designer Peter Pabst is the unsung hero of Tanztheater Wuppertal’s “World Cities” extravaganza. When the lights go down at Sadler’s Wells for Der Fensterputzer (The Window-washer), the... Read more... |
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How to contact Judith Flanders
- personal website
- http://www.judithflanders.co.uk/
