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Review: Rambert Dance Company at Sadler's Wells
An excellent evening of mixed repertoire includes a superb interpretation of 'L’Après Midi d’un faune' and the London premiere of Mark Baldwin’s 'What Wild Ecstasy'.. Continue Reading
News: New President for Royal Academy of Dance
Darcey Bussell is to succeed Dame Antoinette Sibley, who retired last month, as President of the Royal Academy of Dance. Continue Reading
News: The Place Prize for dance - commissions announced
Sixteen new works will be made this summer, to be performed at The Place in September - with four selected for the Final in Spring 2013 Continue Reading
Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre
The tap-dancing is pretty dazzling, choreographed by Bill Deamer. It’s legerdepied really: from the waist up, an air of nonchalant idling, while the feet are a blur of patent leather, rapping out punctilious beats.
Top Hat at the Aldwych Theatre
Bill Deamer provides exuberant and witty choreography and Matthew White’s production is delivered with zest and polish.
Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
In another extraordinary set-piece, we meet the seven cave-dwellers who will keep Snow White safe from the Queen’s wrath. Suspended from cables, and equipped with potholers’ headlamps, they scuttle up and down the vertical rock-face with the speed and adroi…
Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
Preljocaj tells his story in unrelenting fashion, movement burdened with hermetic gesture, and resembling nothing so much as a cross between weight-training and the more dispiriting aspects of early American modern dance of the Denishawn era.
Review: Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
Half-a-dozen magical, standout encounters leapt from this performance, each of which highlights how unlucky we are not to see Angelin Preljocaj’s work more frequently in the UK. Continue Reading
Review: Made By Katie Green – Matters of Life and Death at The Place
Green’s five agile dancers make nimble work of the emotional twists and turns, keeping the piece both enjoyably physical and admirably legible... this is an accomplished and highly watchable piece of dance theatre. Continue Reading
Review: Katja Nyqvist / Mazzilli Dance Theatre at Blue Elephant Theatre
A double bill of new contemporary dance in Camberwell: Underfoot is "about movement so physically & spiritually free, that it suddenly comes alive." For How Much is "powerful & deeply human.." Continue Reading
Review: Daniel Linehan - Zombie Aporia at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
...even when the result is a bit awkward and jumbled, it feels hopeful when artists tackle big ideas and try to have fun at the same time. Continue Reading
Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
When Preljocaj lets his imagination run away with him like this, the results are spectacular.
Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
Preljocaj’s choreographic imagination steals over you. His movements give a freshly vivid inflection to his characters
Ballet Preljocaj - Snow White at Sadler's Wells
In fairness, the production – set to Mahler, with added electronic flourishes by 79D – does have a refreshing lack of sugar-coating
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
Entirely different encounters – Blanche and her lovers, Stanley and Stella, Blanche and Mitch – display surprisingly little variety of mood or tempo and the drama never gets the chance to take flight.