#Chloë Réveillon

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Chloë Réveillon

Chloë Réveillon as “Juanita” (Kitri’s friend, act III), “Don Quixote Don Quichotte“, choreo by Aleksey Ratmansky Алексей Ратманский after Marius Petipa and Aleksandr Gorsky Александр Горский, music by Ludwig Minkus, Anton Simon, Volodymyr Shishkov, Cesare Pugni, Yuly Gerber, Eduard Nápravnik and Riccardo Drigo, set and costume design by Jérôme Kaplan, libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel “El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” (“The Ingenious Nobleman Sir Quixote of La Mancha”) by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). With the cooperation of pupils and students of the Dutch National Ballet Academy Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands (October 23, 2024).

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Chloë Réveillon and Vivien Mistral - photo by Julien Benhamou

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Went to see Raymonda today! It’s a brand new production made for the Dutch National Ballet. Money was spent on this and you could TELL.

I saw Riho Sakamoto as Raymonda, Jakob Feyferlik as Abd al-Rahman, Vito Mazzeo as Jean de Brienne, and then there was Naira Agvanean as Henriëtte, Maria Chugai as Clémence and Rafael Valdez and Dingkai Bai as Bernard and Béranger.

One thing that immediately hits you as soon as the curtain rises is the splashes of colourful costumes set before a minimalistic yet vast décor that pictures the inside of a castle, the courtyard (with a scenic view of the mountain ranges of the Provence) and the inside of a ballroom. Jérôme Kaplan did an absolutely stunning job with creating timeless pieces that convey the period within which Raymonda is set but without making it stuffy by keeping the silhouettes streamlined. My personal favourites were the long ankle length dresses of the noble court ladies (pictured last) and the Hungarian costumes in the pas Hongrois, which were based on actual traditional costumes (planning on scanning more photos soon!).

Another thing that also surprised me was how well rehearsed the corps de ballet was. Judging from the last performance I had seen (The Nutcracker last December, which was a hot mess) my expectations werent too high but now I feel kinda mean thinking like that lol. Literally every single act was done with laser precision and finish with the absolute highlight being the grand pas classique in the third act. Kudos to all the corps dancers and ballet masters who made this happen because it looked better than what some big(ger) companies have been showing these days.

Honorable mention goes to Connie Vowles who danced the second (Clémence) variation in the dream act. In this production, Henriëtte and Clémence don’t dance the dream variations for some reason; instead its danced by two different dancers. I literally have no idea why they would make such a decision esp. because it’s absolutely criminal to deprive the audience of Agvanean’s Henriëtte variation (but more on that later). Vowles danced her solo to damn near PERFECTION. I was literally gasping when she was ending those tours en l’air in perfect fifth not once but all three times. A really promising young dancer, here’s to her going far. I also spotted Chloë Réveillon in the corps, surprised to see her here after her stint at the Mariinsky but she’s a solid addition to the troupe. Loved her in the grand pas classique along with Erica Horwood, and, once again, Connie Vowles.

Now on to the main dish... The Sakamoto/Feyferlik/Mazzeo trio and the Agvanean/Chugai/Valdez/Bai quartet. I’ve seen Sakamoto before (Clara in the Nutcracker) and the best thing that I can say about her is that she’s a technical powerhouse with decent épaulement and very good aplomb. That’s it, really. Unfortunately the girl has no ballon whatsoever which translates into sluggish footwork, which then translates into sloppy finishes. She’s not a bad dancer at all but she lacks finesse. Her body is very limited in what it can do and there was never a point where I felt like she was one with the music or even conveying it well in her dancing, despite not missing a beat. She’s a classic example of dancing on the music but not dancing with the music. Combine that with her mediocre footwork and her lack of grace and lyricism and you have a very underwhelming performance. In the more technical parts of the ballet she was doing alright and managed to keep my attention, but it was in the final variation where she completely lost me. The ‘‘clacque’‘ variation is infamous for it’s supposed emptyness (just lots of bourréeing across the stage really), but because of that it requires enormous charisma and magnetism to keep your attention. If done well it hypnotises you (Sylvie Guillem!!), if done wrong it just bores you. Unfortunely, in this case I’m leaning towards the latter. That all being said... Raymonda is a behemoth of a role to tackle and Sakamoto did an absolutely tremendous job dancing all those variations and pas deux while still looking like she just came fresh on stage when she was taking her bows during curtain call. It’s her first role as a principal dancer since her appointment in December last year and despite my nitpicking eye she did really, really, really well. Her partnership with Feyferlik was great, his overwhelming stage presence managed to make up what she lacked. The one with Mazzeo however... again... it wasn’t bad... but they were just kind of... there. But they did the job well in technical aspects at least, there were some tricky lifts which were done with a well rehearsed and steady hand.

On the other side of the spectrum, the Agvanean/Chugai/Valdez/Bai quartet was such a treat to watch. Nadia Agvanean especially as Henriëtte was the highlight of my evening. Her little head movements, the turn of her shoulders, the stretching of her fingers into the distance to a point beyond her reach, she puts so much thought in all these little details that can make a performance into something bigger than the dancer itself. Not to paraphrase that infamous Tsiskaridze quote but the Russian school really is superior. You can tell she had a Vaganova upbringing in literally every single movement no matter how small. This really shows how much a dancer can get out of themselves if they pay miticulous attention to the style they’re being trained in instead of just thinking of doing the steps right.

All in all it was a great evening and an even greater addition to the Dutch National Ballet’s repertoire. The fact that they can stage a warhorse like Raymonda while still making it look fresh and modern (with an updated libretto, mind you) shows that even a tiny country like the Netherlands with not much of a ballet history can reach the same world renowned standards of the old ballet companies as long as enough respect, hard work and love are put into it. Bravo to all the people who made this happen, on stage and off stage!

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Chloë Réveillon. Photos: Maria-Helena Buckley.

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Review 2019 - The Dance Year from Dance Europe on Vimeo.

A collage featuring some of the wonderful dancers and companies photographed by Dance Europe during the past 12 months.

Photographs: The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet - Kimin Kim and Maria Khoreva; Le Parc ch: Angelin Preljocaj- Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo; Beauty and The Beast ch: David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton; Yaoqian Shang; Faun ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paris Opera - Juliette Hilaire and Marc Moreau; Les Noces ch: Pontus Lidberg, Paris Opera; Blue Moon ch: Aletta Collins, The Royal Ballet; Odissi Solo - Mavin Khoo; What is BirdGang? - BirdGang; Don Quixote pr: Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet - Marianela Nuñez; Swan Lake pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Germain Louvet and François Alu; Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet; Bon Voyage, Bob... ch: Alan Lucien Øyen - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Hotel - Cirque Éloize; Swan Lake, Dutch National Ballet - Maia Makhateli and Daniel Camargo; Le Reveil de Flore - Mariinsky Ballet; Frankenstein ch: Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet - Federico Bonelli and Wei Wang; Russian Ballet Icons Gala - Marcelino Sambé; Julian MacKay; Romeo and Juliet ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Lauren Cuthbertson; Victoria ch: Cathy Marston, Northern Ballet - Pippa Moore; Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton, Mariinsky Ballet - Diana Vishneva and Xander Parish; Push Comes to Shove ch: Twyla Tharp, Mariinsky Ballet - Victor Caixeta; Canto de Ossanha ch: Joonhyuk, The Royal Ballet; Medusa ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Natalia Osipova and Matthew Ball; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet - Elena Yevseyeva and Victor Caixeta; Maria Khoreva; Mayerling ch: MacMillan, Stuttgart Ballet - Friedemann Vogel; Giselle, Abay Kazakh Ballet; The Birds ch: MacMillan, Central School of Ballet; My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, English National Ballet School; The Great Gatsby ch: David Nixon - Kevin Poeung and Ashley Dixon; Mayerling ch: MacMillan - Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen; The Two Pigeons, Paris Opera Ballet School; Dracula ch: David Nixon - Javier Torres and Antoinette Brooks-Daw; The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Ballet - Xander Parish; YAGP New York, Grand Prix recipient - Gabriel Figueredo; Hummingbird ch: Liam Scarlett - San Francisco Ballet; Cinderella ch: Christopher Wheeldon - Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova; Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernández; Birthday Offering ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Fumi Kaneko; Coppélia ch: de Valois, The Royal Ballet - Gary Avis; YAGP Paris, Grand Prix recipient António Casalinho; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet, Chloë Réveillon; Dracula ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Kevin Poeung and Joseph Taylor; Paquita, Dutch National Ballet Academy - Emma Mardegan and Philippe Magdelijns; The Nutcracker, English National Ballet - Matthew Astley; The Firebird, The Royal Ballet - Yasmine Naghdi; Raymonda, pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand; Giselle, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Momoko Hirata and Cesar Morales; Giselle, Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa; Dada Masilo’s Giselle; Legend of Love, The Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa and Timur Askerov; Manon ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Francesca Hayward; Cinderella, Christopher Wheeldon, English National Ballet - Shale Wagman; Rasputin, Polunin Ink - Sergei Polunin and Johan Kobborg; Raymonda, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Powerhouse Rhumba ch: David Nixon - Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor; Bespoke ch: Stanton Welch, San Francisco Ballet - Angelo Greco; Spartacus ch: Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet - Anastasia Denisova and Denis Rodkin; A Month in the Country ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Swan Lake, Mariinsky Ballet - Oxana Skorik and Xander Parish; Boléro ch: Mats Ek, Paris Opera - Niklas Ek; The Red Shoes ch: Matthew Bourne, New Adventures - Ashley Shaw and Adam Cooper; Cinderella ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Ashley Dixon. © Emma Kauldhar 2019.

Photos of The Royal Ballet courtesy of the Royal Opera House.

Curtain Calls Dutch National Ballet, Gala, National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam

Mariinsky Ballet, Don Quixote, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Abay Kazakh Ballet, Rediscovering Bach/Boléro, Almaty

Paris Opera, Raymonda, Opera Bastille, Paris

Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, Royal Opera House, London

Mariinsky Ballet, The Nutcracker and Marguerite and Armand Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Music - ‘An Orchestra’ licensed by Envato

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Titel: Review 2019 - The Dance Year Text: A photographic collage recalling some of the wonderful dancers and ballets photographed by Dance Europe during the last 12 months. Photographs: The Nutcracker, Mariinsky Ballet - Kimin Kim and Maria Khoreva; Le Parc ch: Angelin Preljocaj- Alessandra Ferri and Herman Cornejo; Beauty and The Beast ch: David Bintley, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Delia Mathews and Tyrone Singleton; Yaoqian Shang; Faun ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Paris Opera - Juliette Hilaire and Marc Moreau; Les Noces ch: Pontus Lidberg, Paris Opera; Blue Moon ch: Aletta Collins, The Royal Ballet; Odissi Solo - Mavin Khoo; What is BirdGang? - BirdGang; Don Quixote pr: Carlos Acosta, The Royal Ballet - Marianela Nuñez; Swan Lake pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Germain Louvet and François Alu; Léonore Baulac and Germain Louvet; Bon Voyage, Bob... ch: Alan Lucien Øyen - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch; Hotel - Cirque Éloize; Swan Lake, Dutch National Ballet - Maia Makhateli and Daniel Camargo; Le Reveil de Flore - Mariinsky Ballet; Frankenstein ch: Liam Scarlett, The Royal Ballet - Federico Bonelli and Wei Wang; Russian Ballet Icons Gala - Marcelino Sambé; Julian MacKay; Romeo and Juliet ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Lauren Cuthbertson; Victoria ch: Cathy Marston, Northern Ballet - Pippa Moore; Marguerite and Armand ch: Ashton, Mariinsky Ballet - Diana Vishneva and Xander Parish; Push Comes to Shove ch: Twyla Tharp, Mariinsky Ballet - Victor Caixeta; Canto de Ossanha ch: Joonhyuk, The Royal Ballet; Medusa ch: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Natalia Osipova and Matthew Ball; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet - Elena Yevseyeva and Victor Caixeta; Maria Khoreva; Mayerling ch: MacMillan, Stuttgart Ballet - Friedemann Vogel; Giselle, Abay Kazakh Ballet; The Birds ch: MacMillan, Central School of Ballet; My First Ballet: Sleeping Beauty, English National Ballet School; The Great Gatsby ch: David Nixon - Kevin Poeung and Ashley Dixon; Mayerling ch: MacMillan - Marcia Haydée and Egon Madsen; The Two Pigeons, Paris Opera Ballet School; Dracula ch: David Nixon - Javier Torres and Antoinette Brooks-Daw; The Sleeping Beauty, Mariinsky Ballet - Xander Parish; YAGP New York, Grand Prix recipient - Gabriel Figueredo; Hummingbird ch: Liam Scarlett - San Francisco Ballet; Cinderella ch: Christopher Wheeldon - Emma Hawes and Katja Khaniukova; Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernández; Birthday Offering ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Fumi Kaneko; Coppélia ch: de Valois, The Royal Ballet - Gary Avis; YAGP Paris, Grand Prix recipient António Casalinho; Don Quixote, Mariinsky Ballet, Chloë Réveillon; Dracula ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Kevin Poeung and Joseph Taylor; Paquita, Dutch National Ballet Academy - Emma Mardegan and Philippe Magdelijns; The Nutcracker, English National Ballet - Matthew Astley; The Firebird, The Royal Ballet - Yasmine Naghdi; Raymonda, pr: Nureyev, Paris Opera - Dorothée Gilbert and Hugo Marchand; Giselle, Birmingham Royal Ballet - Momoko Hirata and Cesar Morales; Giselle, Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa; Dada Masilo’s Giselle; Legend of Love, The Mariinsky Ballet - May Nagahisa and Timur Askerov; Manon ch: MacMillan, The Royal Ballet - Francesca Hayward; Cinderella, Christopher Wheeldon, English National Ballet - Shale Wagman; Rasputin, Polunin Ink - Sergei Polunin and Johan Kobborg; Raymonda, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Powerhouse Rhumba ch: David Nixon - Abigail Prudames and Joseph Taylor; Bespoke ch: Stanton Welch, San Francisco Ballet - Angelo Greco; Spartacus ch: Grigorovich, Bolshoi Ballet - Anastasia Denisova and Denis Rodkin; A Month in the Country ch: Ashton, The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov; Swan Lake, Mariinsky Ballet - Oxana Skorik and Xander Parish; Boléro ch: Mats Ek, Paris Opera - Niklas Ek; The Red Shoes ch: Matthew Bourne, New Adventures - Ashley Shaw and Adam Cooper; Cinderella ch: David Nixon, Northern Ballet - Ashley Dixon. © Emma Kauldhar 2019. Photos of The Royal Ballet courtesy of the Royal Opera House. Curtain Calls Dutch National Ballet, Gala, National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam Mariinsky Ballet, Don Quixote, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Abay Kazakh Ballet, Rediscovering Bach/Boléro, Almaty Paris Opera, Raymonda, Opera Bastille, Paris Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote, Royal Opera House, London Mariinsky Ballet, The Nutcracker and Marguerite and Armand Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg Music - ‘An Orchestra’ licensed by Envato, Hochgeladen von: Dance Europe, https://ift.tt/35dstrR

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Neven Ritmanić, Diane Le Floc'h, Silvia Saint-Martin, Sebastien Bertaud, Chloë Réveillon, and Lam Chun Wing