Double award for the Staatsballett Berlin in the “Jahrbuch 2024” of the magazine tanz: In the annual survey for the 2023/24 season, the critics voted Weronika Frodyma “Dancer of the Year” and the Staatsballett Berlin “Company of the Year”.
Image above: Weronika Frodyma in Bovary mit Dominik White Slavkovský, Wolf Hoeyberghs, Ross Martinson, Dominic Whitbrook, Matthew Knight, Photo: Serghei Gherciu
The tributes state: “The Polish-born dancer is sensational as Emma Bovary, and the production breathes with her. Frodyma succeeds in vividly tracing the development of the unhappy heroine: from the naïve provincial beauty who escapes into kitschy, romantic fantasy worlds to the bored adulteress. In doing so, she unfolds the whole range of emotions: longing and pining, romantic exaltation, the frenzy of lust – and finally disillusionment, the plunge into gloom and despair.”
Sandra Luzina in the “Yearbook 2024” of the magazine tanz
“It’s not difficult to make a dramaturgy contemporary. But recognizing when you can demand classicism from an ensemble and when you can expect modernity from it is a great art. Spuck can expect a lot from his dancers, not only from the stars, but also from the corps de ballet. You have to take your hat off to what this ensemble can do, how multi-layered, diverse and curious it is, despite its technical brilliance.”
Falk Schreiber in the “Yearbook 2024” of the magazine tanz
