May 2011
Alien Ness - living the history of hip hop
*B-Boy Alien Ness (Luis Roberto Martinez Jr), is a third generation b-boy (breakdancer) from the Bronx, New York, known for his old school approach to dancing and his knowledge of the early styles of hip hop da… Continue Reading
Rambert Dance Company in Roses / Monolith / Cardoon Club at Sadler's Wells
“Just as you think you’ve got the measure of this creamy barefoot classicism, Taylor lobs gymnastics into the mix: a woman forward-rolls along the torso of her supine partner; another pair take turns to cartwheel deftly through each other’s scissored le…
Bern:Ballett in Clara / Howl at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
“The result, sad to say, is dance for the radio. Songs and piano pieces by Wieck, Schumann and Brahms are coolly and beautifully delivered from the stage, but the choreography sheds no light whatever on the topic”
Royal Ballet in Scenes de ballet / Voluntaries / The Rite of Spring at Royal Opera House
The Rite of Spring “The dance gains in nervous speed; McRae’s clarity of utterance – his academic roles always given the acutest outlines and rhythms – brings a fierce impetus to the youth’s dancing, and cuts his intense state vividly int…
Royal Ballet in Scenes de ballet / Voluntaries / The Rite of Spring at Royal Opera House
“All three are significant works but together they make for an unbalanced trio as Kenneth MacMillan’s The Rite of Spring and Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries are so robust that they muscle out the deceptively delicate charms of Frederick Ashton’s Scen…
Flick Colby
Flick Colby, co-founder of Pan’s People, has died at the age of 65. “Colby, an American with long blonde hair and a megawatt smile, confected slinky, semi-risque and often extravagant Top of the Pops… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in Scenes de ballet / Voluntaries / The Rite of Spring at Royal Opera House
Reviewed: 28 May ***The Royal Ballet* closed its roster of productions for the 2010/11 season at the Royal Opera House (although we still have *Romeo & Juliet* _to come at the O2) with easily the best triple… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in Scenes de ballet / Voluntaries / The Rite of Spring at Royal Opera House
“Ashton’s Scènes de Ballet comes as close to perfect as any ballet I know. Its choreographic patterns evolve with a miraculous, skin-prickling precision, and underlying the scintillating elegance of its surface style is a drama of dark, burnished romanticism.”
Anne Linsel & Rainer Hoffmann in Dancing Dreams - the legacy of Pina Bausch at Cinemas
“It’s a discreet yet revealing look at her methods and at a likeable group of dedicated young people. Anyone who liked Pina will want to see it.”
Rambert Dance Company in Roses / Monolith / Cardoon Club at Sadler's Wells
“Faster steps, like Miguel Altunaga’s springs and somersaults, are whipped off with exuberant panache, but this is Rambert a long way from its comfort zone.They devour Tim Rushton’s Monolith, though.”
Summer House - opening soon
A new festival of making, learning, sharing and performanceJuly – September 2011 Artists and enthusiasts of all ages and abilities will come together to form a community sharing in the dance created and pe… Continue Reading
Bern:Ballett in Clara / Howl at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Reviewed: 25 May 2011 I admire choreographers able to carve out a distinctive style, those who continue to lay out a stall of interesting and different wares in an over-crowded marketplace. Cathy Marston is cert… Continue Reading
Rambert Dance Company in Roses / Monolith / Cardoon Club at Sadler's Wells
“Tim Rushton’s Monolith, receiving its London premiere, is earth to Roses’s air. … Much of the movement has a disarming, stroppy ugliness about it until a breath of beauty blows through bringing with it a lightness and plasticity that provides …
Rambert Dance Company in Roses / Monolith / Cardoon Club at Sadler's Wells
Reviewed: 24 May 2011 This regular spring season at Sadler’s Wells fizzed with celebratory excitement, not just in the buzz of corporate support that filled the mezzanine spaces thanks to Citibank’s … Continue Reading
Still Striding On...
_*Forget Wayne McGregor, Akram Khan, Hofesh Shechter and all the other, newer kids on the UK dance block. Come autumn 2011 the choreographer with the highest profile in London might very well be Richard Alston,… Continue Reading