January 2010
Feature: Angika's Pulse of Tala
For their latest work, Pulse of Tala, Angika collaborated with Mercury Award winning musician Talvin Singh. ‘A training in classical Indian art – Singh’s in tabla playing, and Boonham and Subra… Continue Reading
Feature: Aditi Mangaldas
Aditi Mangaldasperforms as part of a 3 day three-day showcase of contemporary Indian dance and music @ the ICA from 2 – 4 August 2002 She performed @ the Edinburgh Festival last year:“Slap hot rhythm… Continue Reading
Feature: CastleScape
CastleScapeA Random Dance Company/East London Dance project with dancers from Barking and Dagenham Melanie Nix reports Its something of a surprise to find Random Dance Company in Castle Green, Dagenham. ArenR… Continue Reading
Feature: National Ballet of China
National Ballet of China perform Raise the Red Lantern 11 – 15 November 2003 at Sadler’s Wells. Zhang Yimou, who directed the film of the same name, was invited by Zhao Ruheng, artistic director of… Continue Reading
Feature: Contemporary dance preserves its past
In a bid to preserve the heritage of contemporary dance, a groundbreaking work from the 1960’s has been recorded in Labanotation. Joukje Kolff and Catherine Hale report… Trio A, by Yvonne Rainer, w… Continue Reading
Interview: Jasmin Vardimon Q & A
Jasmin Vardimon’s ‘Lullaby’ Lullaby opens at The Place: Robin Howard Dance Theatre on Thursday 26th February and is showing until Saturday 13th March 2004. Lullaby: Set in the depths of an ano… Continue Reading
Feature: Garth Fagan
Garth Fagan – Tony Award-winning choreographer of Broadway’s ‘The Lion King’, has been called “a true original,” “a genuine leader,” and “one of the great r… Continue Reading
Feature: Rennie Harris
Rennie HarrisRennie Harris Puremovement will be performing at the Peacock Theatre, 21 – 25 October 2003. info & online booking Rennie Harris airs his thoughts on his work and dance:Age 39 years of age… Continue Reading
Feature: Sarah Shorten
Newcomer duo, Stacked Wonky, received plenty of press attention last autumn for their work 401 Pieces because of its unusual setting in a contemporary furniture shop. But the publicity wasn’t calculated. … Continue Reading
Feature: The Martha Graham Legacy.
After a long legal battle, the Martha Graham Company have established their right to perform her work. This week the company are at Sadler’s Wells with two programmes of work spanning eight decades. *Ruper… Continue Reading
News: Real life Nutcracker romance
Royal Opera House chief Tony Hall revealed that in a recent performance, The Nutcracker (Paul Kay) asked Clara (Leanne Cope) to marry him in any invitation passed between them near the end of the show. Read more… Continue Reading
News: Where dance is an underground art form
Afshin Ghaffarian is an Iranian dancer who describes himself as an actor, because dance is against the law in his country. Dance is his passion – and also a form of protest against the intolerance of the I… Continue Reading
ZooNation in Into the Hoods at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Soutbank Centre
‘Prince’s prime achievement is to have crafted a populist entertainment capable of uniting the generations. Its appeal is rooted in her understanding of the primal emotional pull of musical theatre and the potency of popular music.’
Boy Blue Entertainment in Pied Piper at Barbican Theatre
‘Sandy choreographs with wit and inventiveness, so the Asbo kids really do skulk and flit like rats and the Piper (Duwane Taylor) expresses his authoritarian nature through tensely linear locking sequences.’
Royal Ballet in Les Patineurs & Tales of Beatrix Potter at Royal Opera House
‘In the first cast, Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather are dreamily romantic, in purest white, as the pas de deux couple, Yuhui Choe and Laura Morera dazzle in their virtuosity competition, and Steven McRae soars through his mischievously insouciant role as the Bl…