April 2009
NoFit State in Tabu at Roundhouse
‘This is fabulous stuff that owes more to contemporary dance and experimental theatre than it does to sawdust and elephants.’
NoFit State in Tabu at Roundhouse
‘These are people like us, doing aerial and earthly tricks galore to loud music in a bustling, chaotic adventure playground.’
NoFit State in Tabu at Roundhouse
‘Tabù is a friendly show, energetic and enthusiastic.’
Royal Opera & Royal Ballet in Dido & Aeneas / Acis & Galatea at Royal Opera House
Handel’s enchanting pastoral masque, Acis and Galatea, was a far happier marriage with singers, dancers, and players (the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Christopher Hogwood) rejoicing in the bountiful good nature of the score. This time McGregor found …
Royal Opera & Royal Ballet in Dido & Aeneas / Acis & Galatea at Royal Opera House
‘It should have been heaven. My two favourite art forms, opera and ballet, combined.’
Royal Opera & Royal Ballet in Dido & Aeneas / Acis & Galatea at Royal Opera House
‘Acis and Galatea marks a shift for McGregor. His signature articulations, extreme extensions, swooping spines and jutting hips are still strikingly visible but so are more expressive gestures and longer, more classical lines.’
Review: Royal Opera & Royal Ballet in Dido & Aeneas / Acis & Galatea at Royal Opera House
This was a big night for Wayne McGregor. A surprising and bold appointment as the Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer, he has since won many admirers for the ultra-modern chic of his two most recent shor… Continue Reading