May 2010
News: Dancing by numbers
Northern Ballet Theatre’s (NBT) education department has devised a novel way of helping primary school pupils get to grips with mathematics by marrying the subject with dance *Dancing by Numbers* will be r… Continue Reading
Feature: Mark Bruce Company 'Love and War'
Mark Bruce Company’s Love and WarAs time shifts and figures from myth and ritual collide, gods emerge amongst frenzied cheerleaders, murderous strangers, dogs of war and bedraggled homecoming queens in a … Continue Reading
News: The ballerina & the coup d'etat
“The revelation in documents declassified this week that Dame Margot Fonteyn was “up to her neck” in a 1959 plot led by her husband to overthrow the government of Panama” David Gardner, … Continue Reading
Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
“Davies has the ability to make her dance seem relaxed and off the cuff, even when it’s as carefully plotted as here. David Buckland’s set, which looks like a room adorned with copper walls, is beautiful, as is Ian Beswick’s lighting.”
Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
“This strong programme ends with Itzik Galili’s bouncy A Linha Curva, a samba-inspired romp”
Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
“The Art of Touch, which Davies created in 1995, is all elegant musicality. Rambert’s dancers follow the anxious ebb and flow of Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas as if chasing time, bringing out the unaffected poetry of the work’s duets and pattern…
News: Dancers on the move
Judith Mackrell misses the sense of family in the dance world. “This sense of family used to be the norm in dance. When the Place recently staged its 40th anniversary gala, some of those present had been i… Continue Reading
Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
“Watching Rambert’s revival of RainForest (1968), we don’t feel we’re in the presence of heritage or classic material – it’s easily the most modern-looking item on the programme.”
Royal Ballet in Chroma / Tryst / Symphony in C at Royal Opera House
“Mara Galeazzi ripples her torso like a serpent, Yuhui Choe hyper-extends her limbs with astonishing bravery and assurance, Laura Morera and Eric Underwood are like creatures from another world.”
Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
“The dancers perform with a quiet clarity that makes a lovely tribute to the choreographer [Merce Cunningham], who died last year.”
Feature: Recommended by... Anthony Bowne
Professor Anthony Bowne has been director of Laban since 2003 and Joint Principal of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance since 2006. Now a member of the Government Dance Forum, he began his career a… Continue Reading
Review: Rambert Dance Company in The Art of Touch / RainForest / A Linha Curva at Sadler's Wells
Reviewed: 25 May Let’s get the obvious point out of the way first: when you go to see a performance by Rambert, you expect to see good dancing. The company has few competitors when it comes to the technica… Continue Reading
StreetDance 3D at on general release
‘…with StreetDance 3D, stereoscopic technology seems, finally, to have found it’s true calling: making London look cool. Our capital so often looks touristy or plain old drab on screen; somehow both possibilities are airbrushed out when it’s ob…
StreetDance 3D at on general release
‘As branded as it all feels, being a baldly strategic merger of various London cultural initiatives, the choreographed routines and editing have such dizzy energy they carry it aloft.’
Royal Ballet in Chroma / Tryst / Symphony in C at Royal Opera House
‘It is intriguing, fresh in thought, its duet exquisitely done by Melissa Hamilton in the arms of Eric Underwood, and overlong, alas, in its last movement, which is hostage to its James MacMillan score – but its choreography everywhere proclaims possibilit…