April 2011
Feature: Dunas
Maria Pagés & Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui come together to perform this collaborative work which sets out to create a dialogue between flamenco and contemporary dance. Dunas was inspired by the undulating landsca… Continue Reading
Feature: Tap Olé
Tap Ole?, make their London debut with their latest production, Tapeando, mixing tap, Spanish guitar and percussion. Boasting the talents of four tap dancers and four virtuoso musicians, Tap Ole? explore the ch… Continue Reading
Feature: Probe, May
*The latest production from Antonia Grove’s company, May, is a daring new piece of dance theatre directed by Pete Shenton (New Art Club) and written by Tim Crouch. * Catch May in London at The Place, 4-5 M… Continue Reading
Review: The Place Prize Finals at The Place
Reviewed: 15 & 16 April 170 entries, 16 semi-finalists, and forty hours of performance from previews to finals have brought us here – to the last two dates of the Place Prize 2010/11. The new format of… Continue Reading
News: Dame Monica's last season
At The Royal Opera House’s press conference last week Dame Monica Mason, who has led the Royal Ballet as Artistic Director since 2002 and has been associated with the company for over 50 years, announced h… Continue Reading
Review: More Soup and Tart at Barbican Theatre
_*More Soup and Tart* _was curator Rosie Cooper’s ambitious attempt to recreate conceptual artist Jean Dupuy’s marathon of two-minute performances at The Kitchen, an interdisciplinary arts venue in D… Continue Reading
News: Black Swan double talk
American Ballet Theatre’s dancer Sarah Lane was employed as Natalie Portman’s “ballet double” on Darren Aronofsky’s film and asked to keep quiet in the run up to the Oscars. Afterwa… Continue Reading
News: What drives Leanne Benjamin?
The 46 year old Royal Ballet Principal talks to the FT“The tension between Catholic guilt and the need to make the most of a short career and precious life.” Read more in the FT magazine, 16 Apr 2011 Continue Reading
Diaghilev Season in Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siecle at London Coliseum
‘You can understand why the director of the Kremlin Ballet might hanker to revive lost gems from the early years of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, Russia having missed out on the whole shebang first time round. But it takes more than a musical score and a rough …
Diaghilev Season in Les Saisons Russes du XXI Siecle at London Coliseum
‘The first problem with The Blue God, performed in the opening programme of the Diaghilev Season, was that it was never much of a success in the first place. First mooted in 1910, Fokine only choreographed it two years later, by which time its exotic Orientalism…
Tango Fire in Flames of Desire at Peacock Theatre
‘Their mastery of style, their involvement with the dance, are marvellous: the way the tango is turned to new and felicitous ends – as in their account of a Piazzolla score – finds an ardent and witty response from these artists.’
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in Early Works at Sadler's Wells
‘It is the onstage presence of the creator that gives this evening its measly little bit of theatrical interest. That, and the thought that back in 1982 this probably was a very thrilling piece of work, certainly an extraordinarily confident piece for a girl to …
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in Early Works at Sadler's Wells
‘The trouble is that this grappling for territory, these obsessive rituals go on for ever. I can see that the movement is sometimes wonderful – the final sequence when the women sit and move in unison to Mozart is very striking – but it is also punis…
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in Early Works at Sadler's Wells
_*Rosas danst Rosas* _’Beneath the work’s modernist surface, however, another current is detectable: an almost Proustian nostalgia for ancien regime institutions, real or imagined.’
Review: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in Early Works at Sadler's Wells
Programme 4: _*Bartók/Mikrokosmos,* _*Sat* 16 April **Over the past three programmes, audience members watching the whole of this Rosas season have been treated to a retrospective view of Anne Teresa De Keersma… Continue Reading