July 2016

1. Hofesh Shechter - Babarians - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 3Luke Jennings, Observer, Monday 11 July 2016Performance 6 - 8 July 2016

   On-off searchlights, deafening electronica intercut with snatches of 18th-century baroque music, and chopped-up sections of folksy choreography executed by six dancers. 

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   Akram Khan's Big Dance 2016 - Trafalgar Square

   Josephine Leask, Wednesday 6 July 2016 — Performance: 2 July 2016

   Akram Khan’s Big Dance Opener was a celebration of ‘bringing people together’ and at a time when the UK is divided and in political chaos, when uncertainty and anxiety reigns, there was somethin… Continue Reading

3. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 3Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard, Wednesday 6 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

   She’s exploring similar territory to another ballerina, Sylvie Guillem, not least in Russell Maliphant’s Silent Echo, spinning through the shadows while Polunin shows off his ballet leaps. 

4. Antony Hamilton and Alisdair Macindoe - Meeting - Battersea Arts Centre

   Press Review 3Tim Bano, The Stage, Wednesday 6 July 2016Performance 28 June - 2 July 2016

   The performers count out pencil beats in increasingly, impossibly quick succession until the rapid string of numbers sounds like lines of computer code or the digits of pi. It’s mesmerising. 

5. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 2Neil Norman, The Stage, Monday 4 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

   Extraordinary backbreaking lifts – one man supporting the two others – and Osipova curling herself backwards into an almost perfect c-shape are just two of the highlights. The rising wail of Sufi singers adds to the heady, perfumed physicality. 

6. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 3Vanessa Keys, The Telegraph, Monday 4 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

   Consummate storytellers, Cherkaoui and Osipova are well suited; his theatrical style gives her plenty of material to work with and her flawless control gives his movements a heightened feel.  

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   Candoco's Joel Brown, Laura Patay & Stine Nilsen Q&A

   Monday 4 July 2016 by Alice Westoby

   Alice Westoby spoke to performers Joel & Laura and Artistic Co-Director Stine, at the performance of their duet 'You and I Know', as part of Dancing City, Canary Wharf... Continue Reading

8. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 2Luke Jennings, Observer, Monday 4 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

   It has its moments; there’s a great scene where she’s standing, lost and distraught, at the side of the highway, illuminated by passing headlights. And there’s a sweetly tender sequence on a swing. 

9. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

   Press Review 4Judith Mackrell, Guardian, Monday 4 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

   There are outstanding moments – lifts in which her exceptional suppleness and strength create the illusion that she’s walking, flying or hovering over her partners’ bodies – but they leave us hungry to see more of what Osipova, and Polunin, might achieve. 

10. Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui/Russell Maliphant/Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

    Press Review Anna Winter, Exeunt Magazine, Monday 4 July 2016Performance 29 June - 3 July 2016

    Osipova becomes a kind of mesmeric predator, stalking the stage, her arms rippling, crouching and leaping, her loose hair and limbs whipping and scoring space. 

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    Natalia Osipova - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Russell Maliphant / Arthur Pita - Sadler's Wells

    Graham Watts, Friday 1 July 2016 — Performance: 29 June - 3 July 2016

    Osipova delivers many layers of performance excellence to three very different vehicles.... Some of the movement may feel familiar but the delivery is certainly unique. Continue Reading

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