January 2012
News: Sergei Polunin resigns
The Royal Ballet have announced that Principal dancer Sergei Polunin has resigned and is leaving "with immediate effect" Continue Reading
Interview: Emma Gladstone, Sadler's Wells [BDE 2012]
British Dance Edition partners: Emma Gladstone is Artistic Programmer and Producer at Sadler’s Wells... Continue Reading
News: Rudi van Dantzig - obituary
The choreographer and director Rudi van Dantzig who died recently at the age of 78 played a major role in the development of classical ballet in the Netherlands. He was involved in the foundation of Netherlands… Continue Reading
News: National Dance Awards
The winners of the only awards dedicated solely to dance have been announced at The Place... Continue Reading
Review: Gandini Jugglers - Smashed - London International Mime Festival
Large scale juggling and Tanztheater combine to produce spectacular results.This inventive and characterful work is "funny, beautiful, clever & affecting". Continue Reading
News: Men In Motion
"We have come out of the shadow of the ballerina…Men are no longer just princes – they can be anything" says Ivan Putrov, preparing for his new show at Sadler's Wells Continue Reading
News: Akademi selected for Arts in Parliament
The leading London based South Asian Dance organisation are the only dance company to take part in parliament's contribution to the Cultural Olympiad Continue Reading
Hiroaki Umeda - London International Mime Festival
Hiroaki Umeda, who immerses himself in such a perfect storm of light, video and sound that his body rarely looks human.
Hiroaki Umeda - London International Mime Festival
Mixing dance, computer imagery and video projection, Umeda surrounds and transforms himself with shifting light, then stops. He refuses to develop the images or ideas: there they are, take it or leave it.
Interview: Brendan Keaney, Greenwich Dance [BDE 2012]
British Dance Edition partners: Brendan is the Director of Greenwich Dance, a thriving centre for professional & community dance in SE London. Continue Reading
Review: Resolution! Jemma Bicknell / Thom Rackett Company / Joss Arnott Dance
January is not complete without at least one trip to Resolution! at The Place. After 23 editions, the platform for is still going strong, as year on year aspiring choreographers seek the opportunity to put thei… Continue Reading
Review: Resolution! Jacob Hobbs / Jessie Brett / Kip Johnson
Now in its 23rd year, The Place’s annual season of new choreography by up-and-coming artists is as much a fixture of January as post-Christmas diets and stalled attempts at self-improvement. While Resolution! … Continue Reading
Resolution! Replica Dance Company/Ffin 2/Eithne Kane&Dominick Mitchell Bennett
The formula is three pieces per programme, with an average length of 20 minutes per piece. There’s dross, but there’s gold dust too, and you’re the preview audience.
Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley - Survivor at the Barbican
…I was struck by one thing: Survivor is in the singular in what is an overpoweringly plural piece.
Hofesh Shechter and Antony Gormley - Survivor at the Barbican
As physical and aural spectacle, some of Survivor is compelling… But Shechter’s music, however powerfully intrinsic to his dance works, isn’t strong enough to carry the full 75 minutes of the work.