Breandán de Gallaí’s Aon premiered in August at the Firkin Crane theatre — a medium-sized venue that presents only dance — in Cork, Ireland. It was performed by de Gallaí’s Dublin-based Ériu Dance Company, founded as a vehicle for his choreography in 2010. Since then, the company has premiered three significant works, including The Rite
Excitement filled the big tent at the Festival des arts de Saint-Sauveur for the Quebec premiere of L.A. Dance Project on August 2. As the festival’s executive director Étienne Lavigne told the crowd in his opening remarks, “This is the ‘It’ company of the moment.” Founded in 2012, the company has an undeniable “certain something,”
The cemetery at Heiligenkreuz before dawn: this is where Kenneth MacMillan’s narrative masterwork, Mayerling, begins and ends. A coffin lies upstage, rain pours down, and Bratfisch, a popular entertainer and cab driver for Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, droops in grief. The coffin is for Baroness Mary Vetsera, the young mistress of Rudolf, the caddish anti-hero