October 2010
News: Arts Council funding cuts announced
Regularly Funded Organisations are receiving better than expected 6.9% cuts in funding from ACE for next year – but are also warned that worse is to come. Read more in the Guardian, 26 Oct 2010 Continue Reading
News: Sadler's Wells new season
In hard economic times and on the day that Arts Council revealed details of how and where the funding cuts will hit, Sadler’s Wells announced record breaking figures at its annual press conference on Tuesd… Continue Reading
Feature: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance 'FAR'
Danced by an ensemble of ten incredible performers and the finest exponents of Wayne McGregor’s singular style, FAR is set to a new, haunting score by the critically-acclaimed composer Ben Frost. Catch FA… Continue Reading
Feature: Compagnie Thor
Take the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, throw in an international cast of nine male dancers performing classical ballet mixed with contemporary and African dance, martial arts and capoeira – light the fu… Continue Reading
News: New home, new name
Northern Ballet Theatre has moved into its new purpose built home in the centre of Leeds – and is dropping the ‘theatre’ in its title to become Northern Ballet. The company is sharing the six f… Continue Reading
News: Is Strictly good for dance?
Deborah Bull,creative director of ROH2 at the Royal Opera House, thinks not. _“As much as I hate the term ‘art form’, that is what dance is: not just a bit of fun on a weekend…._I think t… Continue Reading
Review: Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion in Cheap Lecture / The Cow Piece at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
The best line of *Cheap Lecture, a tongue in cheek take on *John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing (1959), was the very honest declaration from the artists that “We’d love to make a Pina Bausch work, b… Continue Reading
Feature: Wayne McGregor on making FAR
Wayne McGregor talks about the development of his new work FAR (at Sadler’s Wells, 17 – 20 November). It’s inspired by the new understanding of the working of the body which grew out of the Enl… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in La Valse/Invitus Invitam/Winter Dreams/Theme & Variations at Royal Opera House
‘[Winter Dreams] It’s invidious to pick out individual turns – this is the kind of dramatic ensemble stuff the Royal Ballet does best. Suffice to say that Marianela Nuñez, in the role of Masha, gives away her heart and regrets it devastatingly.’
The Royal Ballet in La Valse/Invitus Invitam/Winter Dreams/Theme & Variations at Royal Opera House
‘Like his [Brandstrup’s] 2008 piece Rushes: Fragments of a Lost Story, Invitus Invitam would be mesmerising in a more intimate setting, but strains to communicate itself on the Opera House main stage.’
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in The Song at Sadler's Wells
‘From where I was sitting the piece represents the point at which performance theory finally devours performance itself. Unsmiling men leap into the air, legs apart, and land heavily and unevenly. Sometimes they do this in pairs. There’s a lot of purposeful w…
Ros Warby in Monumental at Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
‘There is a complicated weaving of multiple identities and metaphors, and the piece won’t suit those who require neatly labelled messages. But it is compelling nonetheless.’
Feature: Rambert Nov 2010
This triple bill includes a new work by Aletta Collins called Awakenings, Hush by Christopher Bruce, and Henrietta Horn presents Cardoon Club Catch Rambert Dance Company in London at Sadler’s Wells, 9-13 … Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in La Valse/Invitus Invitam/Winter Dreams/Theme & Variations at Royal Opera House
“Ashton’s La Valse completes this bill: the music drives onward to self-immolation; the cast as yet miss the abandon, the intoxicating urge towards the final cataclysm. Please, sir, can we have some more? Lots more!”
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in The Song at Sadler's Wells
“Despite our respect for experiment in art, there is huge resistance to it in choreography”