October 2005
News: Sciart 2005
Every year the Sciart Awards give £500,000 to support and encourage a range of original arts projects which investigate biomedical science and its social contexts, stimulating fresh thinking and debate in both … Continue Reading
News: Opera Critic learns Ballet
Opera critic Rupert Christiansen has just started taking ballet classes and finds that its not as easy as it seems, “there’s no way you can do a ballet class without concentrating 100 per cent on wha… Continue Reading
News: Michael Clark
begins his three years as an Artistic Associate of the Barbican with the Stravinsky Project, in which he’ll reinterpret three classic scores. The Rite of Spring, Les Noces come later, first up is *O, Clark… Continue Reading
News: French Fracas
Maguy Marin’s Umwelt was greeted with audience unrest when it premiered in Lyons last year. ‘“It was terrible,” says the choreographer. “People were screaming. They were shocked. An… Continue Reading
News: Darcey Bussell to retire
The Royal Ballet announced yesterday that the 2005/06 Season will be Darcey Bussell’s last year as a Company Principal. She’ll give her last performance next June. From the start of the 2006/07 Seaso… Continue Reading
News: Scottish Ballet selects architects for new building
Scottish Ballet have appointed Malcolm Fraser Architects to develop plans for their proposed new home at Tramway in Glasgow. Malcolm Fraser Architects have an extensive track record in delivering high quality a… Continue Reading
News: Extra Just for Show at the National
As the entire run of DV8’s new production Just for Show at the National Theatre (10 – 19 Nov) had sold out, an extra matinee has been scheduled for Saturday 12 November. It’s selling fast we he… Continue Reading
News: Birmingham Royal Ballet
are coming to Sadler’s Wells at the end of this month with Hobsons Choice, a full length ballet by David Bintley and a triple bill of work by choreographers who have long associations with the company R… Continue Reading
News: The Mark Morris Dance Group
is on a tour of the UK, arriving at Sadler’s Wells next week. Mark Monaghan saw them in Newcastle and says ‘It’s almost six weeks until Morris and co head home. Anyone with any interest in eith… Continue Reading
News: Peruvian Ballerina jailed
The ballerina who hid the founder of Peru’s brutal Shining Path rebels and inspired a best-selling novel and a film has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Read more in the Telegraph, 6 Oct Continue Reading
News: Wayne Eagling
steps into the role of Artistic Director for the English National Ballet at the end of October. Britain’s second largest ballet company has faced difficulties for quite a while, as Debra Craine explains, … Continue Reading
News: Contemporary dance on a roll
Audiences are increasing – and getting younger, new buildings are opening and there are increasing numbers of profile-raising cross art collaborations. *Lyndsey Whin*ship assesses the situation – and… Continue Reading
News: Paris Opera Ballet
are about to make their first visit to London in over 20 years. Regarded as the ‘cradle of classical ballet’ the company are bringing Le Parc, a recent work by Angelin Preljocaj, to Sadler’s We… Continue Reading
News: The Mark Morris Dance Group
is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Of 100 performances in the coming year 25 will be in the UK. Debra Craine went to California to meet the man who sums his job description up as “I make up dances and yo… Continue Reading
News: Not in front of the matinee crowd
The Royal Ballet have decided not to show The Lesson, by Danish choreographer Flemming Flindt at matinees because of its subject matter, which critics have described as ‘warped, twisted, creepy and grotesq… Continue Reading