In praise of … Tamara Rojo

“Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, has been awarded a CBE for her services to ballet in the Queen’s 2016 New Year’s Honours”.

Swan Lake in the round 2013

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“SWAN LAKE” in the round of the Royal Albert Hall

Swan Lake in the round

Zoë Anderson: ““On opening night, Tamara Rojo’s Swan Queen had the charisma to fill the whole space”

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Lyndsey Winship, London Evenig Standard:“There’s pause-button control in her early white swan scenes as her demure Odette deliciously stretches out her phrases with elegant assuredness. Later you can feel the adrenaline rising in the room as she spins her way through the 32 fouettés, ending with a sweet smirk that seems to say: “Oh that? Easy.”

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Luke Jennings, The Observer, Sunday 16 June 2013:

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The Telegraph, Louise Levene“Critics spoiled rotten by a life of perfect sightlines in the front stalls found the encircling audience distracting and carped that the sheer size of the Albert Hall made it impossible for the artists to convey emotion. Anyone who has watched their idols from the back row of Covent Garden’s amphitheatre through a forest of craning heads will know that this is nonsense”.

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Tamara Rojo in Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan

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Tamara Rojo in Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan

Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan is a ballet solo choreographed by Frederick Ashton to music by Johannes Brahms, inspired by Isadora Duncan and created for Lynn Seymour. Tamara Rojo in the role filmed in 2004.

‘Tamara Rojo poured heart and soul into it (‘Isadora’); and Isabel McMeekan, the second Isadora, was every bit her equal. They wrenched at your heart in the episode of the appalling drowning of her two children..‘