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Rosas & Ictus - Drumming - Sadler's Wells
Performance reviewed: 25 June 2013 Sadler’s Sampled is a new mini-festival packed with juicy tasters, to attract people to the theatre who might not normally come. So alongside the main productions on stage a… Continue Reading
Rosas & Ictus - Drumming - Sadler's Wells
In Drumming choreographer submitted to composer – Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker took on a vivid Steve Reichpiece for a dozen percussionists and decorated it with 12 dancers. Twelve drummers drumming, 12 dancers dancing…What goes on is, for the most part (the c…
Rosas & Ictus - Drumming - Sadler's Wells
Set to Steve Reich’s score of the same name, this fusion of atomic precision and raw energy is one of the masterpieces of the late 20th century.
Akram Khan joins National Youth Dance Company
- as Guest Artistic Director and the UK wide search is on for the brightest young dance talent from across the UK to work with him, starting in London and Kent this weekend... Continue Reading
The Plusies -Friends -The Place
Riccardo Buscarini’s show at The Place last weekend was virtually the opposite in content and flavour to Athletes, the work which bagged him the prestigious Place Prize earlier this year. Pairing up with ch… Continue Reading
English National Ballet - Swan Lake - Royal Albert Hall 2013
Since when was ‘Busby Berkeley’ a term of abuse?Critics spoiled rotten by a life of perfect sightlines in the front stalls found the encircling audience distracting and carped that the sheer size of the Albert Hall made it impossible for the artists to convey emotion…
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
…has the shockmeister run out of steam? It looks that way from this low-key, three-night showing from the Forsythe Company at Sadler’s Wells. A late-in-the-day change of programme didn’t bode well. And nor did the pervading absence of any sense of occasion.
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
There’s no exhilaration quite like that of a Forsythe Company evening. American choreographer William Forsythe is a visionary whose work demands serious engagement, and can nevertheless still confound. But even if you leave baffled, you know you’ve witnessed …
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
The work in question is complex beyond belief. The movement appears haphazard and involuntary but look a little deeper and it is clear that the opposite is true. There is intention and focus pouring out of them, nothing is accidental. It is as if they are plugged in to s…
David Wall - obituary
The British dancer and ballet master David Wall died recently. Wall was one of The Royal Ballet’s outstanding dancers and a leading British dancer of the late twentieth century... Continue Reading
Mikko Nissinen - introducing Boston Ballet
The company haven't visited for 30 years, but they are back in July at the Coliseum with a 'first date' programme designed to show London audiences the range of their work including Balanchine, Whe… Continue Reading
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
The essence of both 'N.N.N.N' & 'STUDY #3' is that of a workshop: explorative, revealing and informative. Costumes are colourful rehearsal clothes, lighting is bright and sobering.. Continue Reading
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
Study #3 is an extended collation and juxtaposition of attitudes and methods abstracted from three decades of his creations, and is a vexation to the spirit – or at least to my spirit, which has been following Forsythe since Urlicht in 1976 and has been alternately t…
David Wall dies aged 67
Once the youngest Royal Ballet Principal at the age of 21, David Wall died this week. Royal Ballet Director Kevin O'Hare pays tribute... Continue Reading
Avant Garde Dance & Early Opera Company - Monteverdi Ballets - Village Underground
You wouldn’t necessary associate a hip hop dance troupe with the baroque madrigals of Monteverdi, but 'Monteverdi Ballets' is all about a collision of historical periods & musical styles... Continue Reading