September 2010
Review: Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes in Exhibtion at Victoria & Albert Museum
The best advice I can give anyone about to attend this exhibition is to allow at least two hours (preferably more) and to pace oneself carefully through the six sections in three separate halls. Also, unlike me,… Continue Reading
News: Rolex Mentoring Awards 2010
Six exceptional young talents from Australia, Jordan, Lebanon, South Africa and the United States have been chosen by Trisha Brown, Brian Eno, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Anish Kapoor, Peter Sellars and Zhang Yimo… Continue Reading
Review: Russell Maliphant Company in Afterlight at Sadler's Wells
Reviewed: 28 September 2010 Who knew there were so many ways to spiral the human body? A looping pirouette, swirling arms, an arc of the torso, hips skimming across the floor – there must be hundreds, and … Continue Reading
Feature: Is Less More?
*Alongside its performance programme, Dance Umbrella hostsartist talks. To accompany the 2010 festival theme of “the search for theessential”, this year’s discussion is called Spectacular Simp… Continue Reading
Review: Rosemary Butcher in Festival of Miniatures at Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
Reviewed: 27 September Curated by Rosemary Butcher, the Festival of Miniatures, brings together Phillip Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller’s dead reckoning, Nicole Beutler’s Dialogue with Lucinda and Butc… Continue Reading
News: Coming soon...
Arlene Phillips is busy “putting more dance into Flashdance” for a production opening at the Shaftesbury Theatre on 14 October. Read an interview in the Telegraph, 25 Sep 2010 Continue Reading
News: Akram Khan interview
\“In the beginning it was about me moving towards the audience to communicate. Now it’s more about having a complete conviction that pulls the audience towards me. If you’re honest and truthful… Continue Reading
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo in Prgramme two at Peacock Theatre
‘There’s a glorious logic to the fact that the Trocks, an all-male ballet troupe, camp as Christmas, have become guardians of the fragile curios of the classical repertory.’
Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes in Exhibtion at Victoria & Albert Museum
“Most exhilarating is the Natalia Goncharova backcloth for The Firebird. Towering 30ft high, accompanied by Stravinsky’s spinetingling music to a shadow-show of figures dancing against flames, it conjures the excitement of its premiere in 1910. Other delights…
Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes in Exhibtion at Victoria & Albert Museum
‘Asking a stage designer to “set” the exhibition was a good move, and Tim Hatley does Diaghilev’s spirit proud. You walk through moodily lit rooms whose walls are saturated with Ballets Russes colour: ruby red, a singing emerald green, and a long …
Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes in Exhibtion at Victoria & Albert Museum
‘But it’s the emotional power of the little objects that hits you, reminding you of the day-to-day labour that went into the creation of the Ballets Russes legend: a display of ballet shoes, stained and worn; the manuscript for Stravinsky’s Firebird,…
Diaghilev & the Golden Age of the Ballet Russes in Exhibtion at Victoria & Albert Museum
‘The exhibition is cleverly shaped, taking us from ballet as Diaghilev found it – debilitated – by way of thematic displays about the elements that formed his repertory, and the progress of taste as Diaghilev transformed it.’
Review: The Place Prize 2010 in Semi-finals at The Place
Semi-final 3: 23 September _*Three Sighs to Beauty* _by Vangelis Legakis considers how a sigh caused by one particular feeling can differ in terms of ‘emotional arousal and dynamic stimulation’ from … Continue Reading
Review: The Place Prize 2010 in Semi-finals at The Place
Semi final 4: 25 September There’s a real buzz of anticipation in the 300-strong audience at The Place Robin Howard Dance theatre tonight; not only will this evening’s performance bring us the pleasu… Continue Reading
News: Place Prize 2010 Finalists
The four Finalists for The Place Prize were announced on Saturday evening (26 September) after the last semi final. Seven choreographers will be competing for the prize next spring – as three of the winnin… Continue Reading