November 2010
Move: Choreographing You at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
‘As part of the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition Move: Art and Dance since the 1960s, the British choreographer Rosemary Butcher “reinvented” Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, which was first seen in New York in 1959.’
Feature: The Dance Show at NEC Birmingham!
A brand new dance show takes place at The National Exhibition Centre Birmingham next month, featuring dance classes, performances and the chance to stock up on all the latest dance wear from some of the biggest… Continue Reading
Jasmin Vardimon Company in 7734 at Sadler's Wells
‘The problems arise when the performers are required to act, voicing stilted disquisitions on art, cruelty, indeed all the things that they express so well without words. As soon as they open their mouths, this rather wonderful work turns into something resembli…
Jasmin Vardimon Company in 7734 at Sadler's Wells
‘Given the ideas and the passion feeding into 7734, it ought to be a compelling piece. Yet, frustratingly, Vardimon is so focused on her material that she loses her sense of structure.’
Jasmin Vardimon Company in 7734 at Sadler's Wells
‘…the 140-odd minutes of 7734 are undercut by Pamela Carter’s leaden, didactic text, and by the piece’s transformation from dance-work into what one of the dramaturgs, Nina Steiger, describes as a “choreographed treatise” on the Holoca…
Review: Sadhana in The Shiver at The Place
Why do we shiver? Pain, pleasure, excitement, fear: the body’s shiver reflex seems to have a number of contradictory triggers. Sadhana, the dance company created this year by former Angika co-director Subr… Continue Reading
Review: La Ribot in Llamame Mariachi at Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
What does it mean to see or be seen? Since 1990, the Spanish choreographer Maria Ribot has been making multimedia works that question and blur the boundaries between theatre, dance and art. A playfully provocati… Continue Reading
Review: Jasmin Vardimon Company in 7734 at Sadler's Wells
Reviewed: 25 November 2010 The mix of surreal poignancy and humour in Jasmin Vardimon’s 7734 [spelling ‘hell’ when viewed upside down on a digital display] contains a whole crowd of strange be… Continue Reading
News: Transitions 2011
Transitions Dance Company – the UK’s original graduate dance company – has announced its members and choreographers for 2011. Twelve young dancers from Japan, Ghana, Belgium, France and across … Continue Reading
News: New home for Tavaziva
Tavaziva Dance have been invited by John Baraldi, CEO at the Bernie Grant Arts Centre, to become the new ‘Company in Residence.’ Located in Haringey, the Bernie Grant Arts Centre will become a base f… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in Cinderella at Royal Opera House
“The Royal Ballet’s production of Prokofiev’s score should thrive on the spiky choreography of Frederick Ashton. Instead, it’s muffled by the mess and clutter of Wendy Ellis Somes’ production.”
News: Jasmin Vardimon
Jasmin Vardimon discusses 7734 and her work on Wagner’s Tannhäuser “Reconciling opposites, and collaborating across divides, is what my work has always been about,” Michael Church, Independen… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in Cinderella at Royal Opera House
“She [Marianela Nuñez] is touchingly sincere, with nothing overstressed, and fetchingly responsive to the dance’s demands, which she shows with a lovely generosity. Her prince was Rupert Pennefather, handsome enough to win any Cinderella’s heart.”
Jasmin Vardimon Company in 7734 at Sadler's Wells
“she’s lost her light touch with 7734, which is both over-long and unrelenting.”
News: Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne talks to Lucy Cavendish about his new version of Cinderella, “I’ve set it at the time of the Blitz. That seems to work really well for me. The idea of time running out; quick, deep lov… Continue Reading