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Review: Spring Loaded - Amy Bell And Valentina Golfieri/Aoife Mcatamney/Gary Clarke - The Place
If it’s May, it must be Spring Loaded, The Place’s annual platform of new commissions from upcoming young choreographers. Friday’s triple bill wove together dance and dark comedy, gentle folksong and strid… Continue Reading
News: Jasmin Vardimon's Excellence in International Dance
Jasmin Vardimon, has been awarded the 2013 International Theatre Institute (ITI) Award for Excellence in International Dance. She has been chosen for the award in recognition of her choreographic work over recent years. Continue Reading
Feature: Sadler's Wells Dance House
Sarah Crompton introduces her new book about the leading dance venue - and we have two copies to give away! Continue Reading
News: Arts Council Award for Leading UK Dance Organisations
A £150,00 Arts Council award has been given to a new consortium of dance organisations led by Nottingham’s Dance4 alongside East London Dance, Merseyside Dance Initiative and Dance Initiative Greater … Continue Reading
News: Rambert's Dancers visit their new home
Rambert’s dancers were given their first access to the Company’s new headquarters on the South Bank this week. Rambert Dance Company will move into the new premises in the autumn. Continue Reading
Review: Rambert - Season of New Choreography - Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
It’s the nature of the beast that mixed bills almost invariably elicit a mixed response. This can ring especially true when all the works on offer are world premieres, as was the case with Rambert’s o… Continue Reading
Review: Northern Ballet - The Great Gatsby - Sadler's Wells
Praise is due to Nixon for expertly presenting an accurate sketch of the novel with a clarity that enabled those of us having only a passing acquaintance with the book to keep up, whilst not offending the aficion… Continue Reading
News: Compass Commissions announced
New works to be supported by the Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership have just been announced... Continue Reading
Review: mapdance - Rich Mix
The late Nigel Charnock’s 'XX' was a highlight of mapdance's (the University of Chichester’s MA student performance company) programme at Rich Mix last Friday.. Continue Reading
Northern Ballet - The Great Gatsby - Sadler's Wells
Martha Leebolt, as Daisy, wears the pasted-on smile of an unhappily married woman keeping up appearances; as her brutish husband, Kenneth Tindall is a compelling dancer with both clout and control
Northern Ballet - The Great Gatsby - Sadler's Wells
Northern Ballet’s artists work with an eager and very attractive energy and devotion: their style is quick, vivid. The staging, alas, strands them in a succession of interminable scenes
Feature: After the Rite
The 100th anniversary of the first performance of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' is on 29 May. We ask choreographers, dancers & programmers what this groundbreaking work means to them... Continue Reading
News: Talking choreography & collaboration
The National Choreographers' Conference bought together a fascinating mix of speakers who work in film, TV, music video, West End theatre and contemporary dance... Continue Reading
News: Sylvie Guillem
In an interview in the Independent, Guillem speaks her mind about the people she has worked with and her passion for the artform, 'I work hard to make a gift to the audience'. Continue Reading
News: The Royal Ballet - an international company
Kevin O’Hare, director of the Royal Ballet, highlights the quality of the company's dancers in the Telegraph, as a response to comments from a former Royal Ballet principal dancer about the lack of Bri… Continue Reading