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She loves it and she loves it...
Sally Marie talks to Donald Hutera about her new show 'I loved you and I loved you'; her smart new apprenticeship scheme Sweetshop Tigers & the responsibilities inherent in receiving public funding... Continue Reading
Carlos Acosta - Cubania - Royal Opera House
Acosta, pictured performing Tocororo with Veronica Corveas, proves that at 42 he can still hold his own with dancers more than a decade younger.
Carlos Acosta - Cubania - Royal Opera House
Alexander Varona as the cigar-puffing, shoe-shuffling, gyrating rival in Tocororo is a stand-out, and Acosta transitions flawlessly from ballet maestro to boyhood breakdancer and back again. There’s energy aplenty but as a whole, lacks the passion to make a mark.
Carlos Acosta - Cubania - Royal Opera House
The end is almost nigh for Carlos Acosta’s classical ballet career – he says he’ll finish next year – but the Royal Ballet’s Cuban dynamo has no intention of giving up dance... Continue Reading
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba - at home
As members of Cuba's leading contemporary dance company join Carlos Acosta in his 'Cubania' at the Royal Opera House, Rhiannon Brace writes about seeing them perform & rehearse in Havana... Continue Reading
Pop Shop youth take over day
Head along 12 August to celebrate the United Nations' International Youth Day with a day of workshops, art, and the chance to meet Popin' Pete. Continue Reading
Ardani 25 Dance Gala - London Coliseum
The evening’s final work is Arthur Pita’s Facada. Vasiliev is splendidly droll as the bridegroom who gets last-minute cold feet, and Osipova cuts loose with fabulous abandon as the jilted bride who, having wept several bucketfuls of tears, sets forth to extract revenge.
APPLICATIONS OPEN FOR RESOLUTION 2016 AT THE PLACE.
The selected shows will be performed at The Place as part of a triple bill in either January or February 2016. Continue Reading
'The BENCH' set to smash glass ceiling for Female Choreographers
The new initiative aims to raise the profile of female choreographers in the UK and Internationally, and offers bespoke talent development/training for the recipients. Continue Reading
White Lodge Museum moves into the digital age
The extensive photographic and documentary records of many celebrated alumni will become accessible worldwide through a new online timeline. Continue Reading
Ballet Folklórico de México - London Coliseum
Performance reviewed: 22 July Think of a touristic cliché – pretty much any touristic cliché – of Mexico and it almost certainly appears somewhere in Ballet Folklórico de México’s dazzlingly slick show… Continue Reading
How contemporary choreographers are transforming ballet
The Independent's Zoë Anderson on how ballet got its confidence back. Continue Reading
Arbonauts - The Desire Machine - Brunel Tunnel Shaft
Arbonauts, who have previously created work in Nunhead cemetery, are attracted to the dark and mysterious, and they don’t like to give too much away. By taking that approach, they don’t necessarily do themselves any favours.
New Adventures - The Car Man - Sadler's Wells
… But The Car Man remains vintage Bourne nonetheless. Like all his works it delivers a supremely and inventively slick entertainment: at its best it also drills down to a hard core of emotional truth.*
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico - London Coliseum
The sheer joy bubbling on the stage is infectious and literally spills into the audience as the dancers take to the aisles and invite lucky spectators to dance with them. If you don’t come out with a big, fat smile on your face you are deaf, dumb and blind. In fact…