Review | The American Ballet Theatre’s Hong Kong show Ballet Superstars of the Future impresses with emerging talent and great dynamics
- The ABT hasn’t been seen in Hong Kong since 2018 but its Studio Company, a training ground for emerging talent, came with an ensemble featuring 12 young dancers
- Highlights included Brady Farrar’s solo, and Royal Ballet School graduate Takumi Miyake shone alongside the technically skilled Madison Brown in Flames of Paris
The American Ballet Theatre (ABT), one of America’s top dance companies, last performed in Hong Kong in 2018.
This time ABT’s Studio Company, a training ground for emerging talent, was in the city with a diverse ensemble comprising 12 dancers aged between 16 and 21, most from North America and others from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Brazil and Spain.
Performed at the Jockey Club Amphitheatre in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, the show had high standards and high energy, with great group dynamics shown in the ensemble pieces.
That said, it’s tricky to review a programme called Ballet Superstars of the Future: Dancers as young as this are usually “works in progress” so it would have been helpful to know their ages to properly assess their performances.
Along with some well-known party pieces and two modern solos, the programme included three longer works created for the company.
