From a rare revival to beloved ballets to new works, here are five performances we have on our calendars this month.
Danseurs in Works by Women
Daniil Simkin. Photo by Aytekin Yalçın, courtesy Richard Kornberg and Associates.
NEW YORK CITY Daniil Simkin’s latest project brings together male principals from different ballet companies for a program entirely choreographed by women. New and reimagined works by Lucinda Childs, Drew Jacoby, Tiler Peck, and Anne Plamondon are performed by Simkin, Boston Ballet’s Jeffrey Cirio, Bayerisches Staatsballett’s Osiel GouneoRoyal Danish Ballet’s Alban Lendorfand National Ballet of Canada’s Happy November in Sons of Echo, debuting at The Joyce Theater Jan. 14–25. joyce.org.
A Big Avant-Garde Revival
What to wear. Photo courtesy Brooklyn Academy of Music.
NEW YORK CITY Big Dance Theater co-conspirators Paul Lazar and Annie-B Parson lead the first restaging of Richard Foreman and Michael Gordon’s renegade post-rock opera What to wear, 20 years after its premiere in California and one year after Foreman’s passing. The avant-garde critique of contemporary superficiality makes its New York debut at Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival Jan. 15–18. bam.org.
A Decade of Akram Khan’s Giselle
Erina Takahashi in
Akram Khan’s Giselle. Photo by Camilla Greenwell, courtesy ENB.
LONDON It’s easy to forget what an audacious gamble it was to commission Akram Khan to create a new Giselle for English National Ballet in 2016—the lauded kathak and contemporary choreographer had never made a full-length ballet, and had just one shorter work for a ballet company (Dust, for ENB) on his CV. Fast-forward a decade, and Khan’s retelling is firmly ensconced as a 21st-century classic and one of the company’s calling cards. It arrives in London’s West End for the first time this month as ENB begins to celebrate 10 years of the groundbreaking work by bringing it to the London Coliseum. Jan. 15–18. ballet.org.uk.
Regrets, I Have a Few
San Francisco Ballet’s Katherine Barkman and Joseph Walsh rehearsing Yuri Possokhov’s Eugene Onegin. Photo by Lindsey Rallo, courtesy SFB.
SAN FRANCISCO A new Eugene Onegin enters the ballet canon this month. Yuri Possokhov’s adaptation of the classic Alexander Pushkin novel is distinct from the widely performed John Cranko version not just in the new choreography, but also in the decision to forgo Tchaikovsky’s score in favor of a new commission from Ilya Demutsky, who previously collaborated with Possokhov on A Hero of Our Time, Nureyev, and Anna Karenina. Costumes by Tim Yip, scenic design by Tom Pye, and projections by Finn Ross round out the new production, which premieres at San Francisco Ballet Jan. 23–Feb. 1 before co-producer The Joffrey Ballet brings it into its repertory this summer. sfballet.org.
A Los Angeles Jewel
Los Angeles Ballet. Photo by Nathan Carlson Photography, courtesy Los Angeles Ballet.
LOS ANGELES To mark its 20th anniversary, Los Angeles Ballet brings a new triple bill to The Wallis: George Balanchine’s “Rubies,” Hans van Manen’s Frank Bridge Variations, and a premiere from artistic director Melissa Barak to music by David Lawrence (a previous collaborator with her eponymous company). Jan. 29–31. losangelesballet.org.
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