February 2010
News: Emerging Dancer Award Winner
English National Ballet has announce that Anais Chalendard is the winner of this year’s Emerging Dancer Award. Crystal Costa won The People’s Choice Award. Following a performance at English National… Continue Reading
Dance 3 in Three Contemporary Triple Bills at Touring & Linbury Studio Theatre, Stratford Circus, The Place
“Ben Wright’s subtly expressive Passing Strange and Wonderful, in which Delphine Gaborit and Robert Clark pass through shades of quietly desperate tenderness and potentially hurtful passion without striking a single false note.”
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in Mixed Bill at On tour, coming to Sadler's Wells with a double bill in March
“Two of the works rank among the most distinctive pieces of contemporary dance I expect to see all year. Each choreographer uses a unique and visceral movement vocabulary to probe and pluck at social unease.”
Rafaela Carrasco in Vamos Al Tiroteo at Sadler's Wells
“Carrasco danced with a controlled dignity that was proudly effective. Because of its restraints in manner I thought the evening very enjoyable”
Maria Pages in Autorretrato at Sadler's Wells
“When the dance seizes her, as it ultimately must with any flamenco divinity, she lets it take its irresistible course, driving her ever onward and touching our souls.”
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in Mixed Bill at On tour, coming to Sadler's Wells with a double bill in March
“it is the quality of their movement – a seamless and urgent fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Latin and modern-American – that holds the attention like glue.”
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba in Mixed Bill at On tour, coming to Sadler's Wells with a double bill in March
“They move with an old-fashioned juiciness, reminiscent of the Martha Graham Company, burning up the choreography. But they are also smart, responsive and funny.”
News: Balletboyz younger generation
“We’re very hard on them,” says Trevitt. “We insist they get to the studio on time every morning and get warmed up.” Nunn adds: “We want them to understand what a fantast… Continue Reading
News: Dancing for Africa
Royal Ballet star Mara Galeazzi’s gala at Sadler’s Wells this Sunday 28 February will help fund Dancing for the Children, a charity she set up to help children in Africa. Read more in the Telegraph, … Continue Reading
News: Rex Nettleford
Author, academic, activist and co- founder of Jamaica’s National Dance Theatre Company (NDTC), Professor Rex Nettleford has died aged 76. read an obituary in the Guardian, 22 Feb 2010 Continue Reading
News: Dance Champions make a move
Fifteen government appointed Dance Champions met this week to start planning a campaign which will promote dance as a healthy, enjoyable activity and ultimately get the nation moving. The target is 100,000 regul… Continue Reading
Interview: Sara Baras Q&A
Spanish flamenco superstar Sara Baras brings her 20 strong company to the Royal Albert Hall on 12 & 13 March. Her BEST OF – show will be a celebration of her career, featuring extracts from some of he… Continue Reading
Review: Tavaziva in Wild Dog at The Place
Reviewed: 23 February The seemingly unending energy and physical prowess of Tavaziva is almost spell-binding and the latest choreographic tour de force by Artistic Director/Choreographer Bawren Tavaziva is a per… Continue Reading
Royal Ballet in As One / Rushes - Fragments of a Lost Story / Infra at Royal Opera House
‘As One is 25-year-old Jonathan Watkins’s first work for the main stage. A choreographer promoted from within the company, he creates some darting solo dances, showing off the speed and charisma of his cast, but there’s a fuzzy naivety to the work as…
Royal Ballet in As One / Rushes - Fragments of a Lost Story / Infra at Royal Opera House
‘Watkins, a member of the Royal Ballet making his first piece at Covent Garden, is a choreographer or, at the very least, a talent-in-waiting.’