As it turns out, Akram Khan’s latest big commission from English National Ballet was already doomed by the weight of its own bombast. What started out as an interesting idea, introducing elements of ...

The best parts of San Francisco Ballet’s “Frankenstein” are well known from monster movies: when the Creature comes to life, and when he angrily confronts his maker. Vitor Luiz, as the Creature, has ...

Akram Khan’s powerful ballet. In a dilapidated former Arctic research station, the Creature has been conscripted by a military brigade into a bold new experimental programme. He is being tested for ...

With the opening of “Creature,” English National Ballet quenches a three-year-long thirst. It had been 30 years since their previous engagement in Chicago when the British ballet company arrived in ...

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In an isolated research station, lost amid snow and ice, a highly disciplined team of would-be astronauts is putting an experimental animal through its paces. Will the Creature (deliberately left ...

Creature still isn’t an easy watch. It’s set in a vast murky room with high ceilings and wooden planks for walls. Outside, when the side doors occasionally open, there is blindingly white light and ...

Two years ago, Wendy Whelan, a Louisville native and one of the world's most famous ballerinas, was juggling her work as a New York City Ballet principal dancer with a new project called "Restless ...

“She has the inexplicable ability to make abstract movement take on a certain poetry through simplicity. A look, a breath, a sculpted shape. Story always hovering in the air around her.” These words, ...