Text: Natasha Rogai Hong Kong Ballet (HKB) celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and marked the occasion with international guest stars joining the home team for a gala performance. Gala programmes are inevitably a curate’s egg. If there were a few blips on the radar, this one still offered much to enjoy with some outstanding dancing from the guests and HKB’s own artists in works which ranged from gala staples like the Black Swan and Don Quixote pas de deux to three pi

REVIEW: HONG KONG BALLET THE GREAT GATSBY Text: Natasha Rogai Hong Kong Ballet’s revival of artistic director Septime Webre’s The Great Gatsby, previously seen here in 2019, is a big, bold, spectacular show. Consistently entertaining and visually stunning, with wonderful period sets and costumes by Tim Yip, it plunges the audience into the febrile atmosphere of New York in the Roaring 20s. Above all, it is blessed with a gloriously evocative, infectiously toe-tapping score b

Text: Molly Grogan No ballet is more beloved or more scorned than The Nutcracker. Classic or cliché? Everyone has their camp. Also at odds: purists, whether of the Russian or Balanchine stripe, and artistic directors looking to put a personal stamp on the Christmas tale. Perhaps the only position that everyone can agree on is the financial one: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s children’s story set to Tchaikovsky’s score is a dependable money maker for ballet companies the world over. The

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