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News: Dancers: Behind the Scenes at the Royal Ballet
Andrej Uspenski, dancer with the Royal Ballet, has produced a book of his photography. He provides a back stage view of the company and talks about the daily life of a professional dancer in the Guardian. Continue Reading
Review: Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
The dance world’s a better place for having Breakin’ Convention in it. Hell, it may even be that the world’s a better place. Among the things I love about this annual festival of hip hop dance t… Continue Reading
Review: Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet's young Artist in Residence, Liam Scarlett, is to be congratulated for yet another courageous, challenging new ballet... Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Scarlett has laboured long to make dance that explores this vehemently obvious narrative, but might consider the dictum that less is more.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
This ballet is very nearly a dark, brilliant success, but what prevents it from being so is the occasional flatness of Dan Jones’s score and Scarlett’s own pacing.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Playing out in two halves of 60 and 40 minutes, in a bisected (and suitably dungeon-like) Linbury Studio, this dark-as-night traverse production grips for much of its first act.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
The imagery and the dancers are strong enough to put this concept over, but Scarlett’s choreography does little to help.
News: Frederic Franklin
A dancer who performed with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and appeared at the London Coliseum with American Ballet Theatre at the age of 94, died recently Continue Reading
Zoonation - Some Like it Hip Hop - Peacock Theatre
Some Like It Hip Hop sails back into the West End on wave after wave of brilliant dancing.
Review: C-12 Dance Theatre - Shhh! - Hawthorne Theatre, Welwyn Garden City
This full-length production is the most ambitious yet from C-12 Dance Theatre, and thus a big step forward for Director/choreographer Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster and Executive Producer Adam Towndrow. The latter… Continue Reading
Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
The energy of Breakin’ Convention – the way that the dancers and the enthusiastic and knowledgeable audience bring Sadler’s Wells to life – is always striking. But this is now matched by an increasing sense of possibility as street dance develops the confid…
Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
Now celebrating its 10th anniversary, the festival radiates an overwhelming sense of inclusiveness. With the all-female crew Zamounda performing alongside the gifted disabled crew ILL-Abilities, and with crowds of children mastering b-boy moves during interval workshop…
Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
And at the other end of the night are headliners Project Soul, a South Korean crew with some blistering power moves. Their enjoyably baffling piece Urban Arirang considers Korean identity, and seems to pit the militarised North against the Gangnam-style South — altho…
Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
My heart was won by the Bad Taste Cru dancing to Dave Brubeck’s Take Five, which I thought witty, hard-edged, sure in focus – some of the other works on display tended to sprawl – sizzling in energy, and meriting a filmed record.
Review: English National Ballet - Choreographics, A Letter To.. - The Place
Choreographics is an important part of English National Ballet’s calendar, providing a platform for company dancers to test out creative ideas... Continue Reading