February 2009
CandoCo Dance Company in The Perfect Human / Still at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Soutbank Centre
‘If you didn’t know that Hofesh Shechter was a choreographer to keep your eye on, you’d never guess it from his newish piece for Candoco.’
Ballet Black in Mixed Bill at Linbury Studio
‘For its fourth visit to the Linbury, artistic director Cassa Pancho has put together a neo-classical programme that would shame bigger troupes.’
Ballet Black in Mixed Bill at Linbury Studio
‘The works are specially created, the performances fluent.’
CandoCo Dance Company in The Perfect Human / Still at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Soutbank Centre
‘The pioneering dance troupe Candoco has a two-fold strategy: they create performances that integrate disabled and non-disabled dancers; and they commission new works from classy choreographers.’
Feature: Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest - the launch
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News: The Global Dance Contest
Sadler’s Wells, the dance theatre based in North London, is going global in its search for new talent with the launch of an online dance contest open to anyone over the age of 18, anywhere in the world. Th… Continue Reading
News: The Dancer's Body
*Deborah Bull, former prima ballerina with The Royal Ballet presents, and often dances, her new landmark series for BBC TWO, The Dancer’s Body.* The series, starting on 21 September, and also written by De… Continue Reading
Review: Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) in Misrana at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Soutbank Centre
Ten years ago syllabi were finalised for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD) graded examinations in South Asian Dance. With two particular styles codified, Kathak and Bharatanatyam, joined the IST… Continue Reading
Sakoba Dance Theatre in Respite at Cochrane Theatre
‘Artistic director Bode Lawal uses an ancestral ritualistic movement vocabulary and then develops it to go beyond cultural tourism in a spiritual, forward-looking progression with live and recorded music.’
The Cholmondeleys & Featherstonehaughs in Dancing On Your Grave at Riverside Studios
‘Because of its intimate scale, and concentration on a theme, Dancing on Your Grave is much more successful than Anderson’s earlier, inflated piece, Yippeee!’
The Cholmondeleys & Featherstonehaughs in Dancing On Your Grave at Riverside Studios
‘This show has just three dancers, plus musicians Steve Blake and Nigel Burch, so it’s less a reminder of Anderson’s glory days than that times have grown distinctly stingy.’
Colin Dunne in Out of Time at Barbican Pit
‘By contrast, how charming is the film of him, aged 10, in a kilt, demonstrating his first world-title display on Blue Peter. “Is it tricky?” asks the presenter, rather gratuitously, of the small, modest boy as he gets his breath back. He smiles, and sa…
Colin Dunne in Out of Time at Barbican Pit
‘He’s nimble and neat, but at times too broody and introspective for the show’s good. Steering clear of facile connections with his audience, he risks not engaging with us at all.’
Colin Dunne in Out of Time at Barbican Pit
‘It takes a tradition to break with one, and it was the hierarchy of a competitive and conservative culture that won Dunne his spurs. Yet this show also feels like a liberation. The world surely has room for both.’
Interview: Deborah Baddoo Q&A
*Deborah Baddoo has been a pioneer in the development and promotion of Black dance in the UK. Since 1986, her company State of Emergency has provided opportunities for hundreds of performing artists in the fiel… Continue Reading