February 2015
Michaela DePrince Q&A with the Guardian
The Dutch National Ballet member talks racial bias in modern ballet, her childhood as a war orphan, and her love for Orange Is The New Black Continue Reading
The Associates - Pite, Prince, Shechter - Sadler's Wells
Pite structures her work with a thrilling intelligence and choreographs with a detail that makes you feel passion and unease under your own skin.
City, dance and camera - Moving Cities
Excited by the possibilities of movement in cities, in dance & on camera, Jevan Chowdhury set up Moving Cities last year, starting with London... Continue Reading
New Adventures' The Car Man casting announced
A new generation of New Adventures’ stars will be making their debuts in the iconic roles. Continue Reading
The Associates - Pite, Prince, Shechter - Sadler's Wells
Prince and Shechter, in particular, are experimenting with projects intended to take them in new directions. This is laudable; artists who don’t expand their horizons risk seeing them contract. But forcing change isn’t easy, as the evening demonstrates.
The Associates - Pite, Prince, Shechter - Sadler's Wells
Had Shechter really cheated on his wife? What was Pite’s experience of unrequited love? You left the theatre questioning the nature of authorship, confession, and live performance. Long may it continue.
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion - Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion seem bound and determined to convince us that choreography primarily exists in the mind of the beholder; that it is more graph or framework, than emotional core... Continue Reading
The Associates - Pite, Prince, Shechter - Sadler’s Wells
Having Associate Artists is a big deal to Sadler’s Wells. The first appointments, over ten years ago, signified a major strategic change in the theatre’s approach to dance... Continue Reading
Cirque Du Soleil - Kooza - Royal Albert Hall
Kooza doesn’t give us more of the same, but reclaims the world-famous Québecois circus from the garish lights of Las Vegas, to offer something smaller, sleeker and far, far sparkier.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to be new Artistic Director Royal Ballet Flanders
"He will build bridges between tradition, the contemporary world & the future. With his arrival at Royal Ballet Flanders we can look to a new future with absolute confidence." Continue Reading
Children's programming in theatre - essential or afterthought?
The Guardian's Lyn Gardner thinks Sadler's Wells is leading the way by putting children at the core of its programme, and wants to know why other theatres aren't doing the same. Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Onegin - Royal Opera House
Osipova wrenches it into raw, needy expression, at times slowing the steps to near-paralysis, at others speeding them to the brink of ragged hysteria.
Young carers perform at Sadler's Wells
Thanks to a New Adventures / Create project, 27 young Londoners danced in a new work they devised before the performance of Edward Scissorhands on January 8th. Create, a charity that provides the most disadvanta… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Onegin - Royal Opera House
Natalia Osipova made her debut in the role of Tatiana, and received the kind of roaring, heel-drumming curtain call that I’ve not heard at Covent Garden in a long time.
Peeping Tom - 32 rue Vandenbranden - Barbican Theatre
An eerie and original show, there’s a lot going on in this cold, cold place, but it takes a long time to truly care.