Tag Jonathan Goddard

A Single Man Ballet Review 4*

First came the novel, then the film, now Christopher Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man becomes a ballet Grief fractures you.  And if it’s grief you can’t share with those around you, it becomes even more corrosive.   Such is…

A Single Man, The Ballet (News Feature)

Dancer Jonathan Goddard talks to Ballet Position about his two roles in the new ballet, A Single Man A Single Man is a study in grief.  Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel traces a day in the life of George, a middle-aged…

Phaedra + Minotaur, Linbury Review 5*

 Ancient Greek myth comes powerfully alive in Phaedra + Minotaur, which pairs Britten and Brandstrup at the Linbury… Taken individually, Benjamin Britten’s cantata Phaedra and Kim Brandstrup’s ballet Minotaur each packs a powerful punch. Together, though, they inform and mirror…