April 2012
Review: Giuliana Majo / Gabriele Reuter - Sprinloaded at The Place
"You can poke all the holes in the fourth wall that you want, but is it worth it when you’re already having such a good time with the playing itself?" ask Jeffrey Gordon Baker Continue Reading
Interview: Anna Finkel & Chris Evans Q&A
Anna Finkel & Chris Evans were the performers in Lost Dogs Place Prize winning 'It Needs Horses' last year. This week they're back with physical theatre group Gecko... Continue Reading
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
A Streetcar Named Desire for Scottish Ballet is a model of narrative clarity. You can walk into the auditorium with no previous knowledge of Tennessee Williams’s play and never have a moment’s doubt as to who’s who, or what’s going on.
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
Not only does it crackle with Southern heat and sexual tension, but it’s a model of storytelling. No need to have seen the play or the film: everything is here, from the big themes of masculine-feminine, earth and air, to the smallest detail.
Royal Ballet - Polyphonia / Sweet Violets / Carbon Life at the Royal Opera House
With an experienced librettist at Scarlett’s side, and better musical advice, Sweet Violets would have been a very different work.
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
The two stars are earned by the ensemble for bravery and devotion to a lost cause.
Review: Ballet Revolución at The Peacock Theatre
..the artistry of these formidable performers, the fun they were having, radiated through any minor distractions, making this a night of dance as uplifting as one of their soaring skyward leaps. Continue Reading
Review: Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
This is a work that is all about emotion and passion, and Scottish Ballet performs with lucid fervour and sincerity. Continue Reading
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
But most effective is the pure dance expression. There’s too little of it, perhaps, but Ochoa’s choreographic language can be shockingly truthful
Review: Goddard/Nixon & Jose Agudo - Springloaded at The Place
It’s taken Goddard Nixon and Jose Agudo in this Spring Loaded double bill to make me realize how much I learned from two viewings of the 2010 blockbuster Inception. Like these two dance works the film delves… Continue Reading
News: Darcey Bussell joins Strictly Come Dancing
Having had a taste of what it’s like to be a guest judge on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing at the end of the 2009 series, Darcey Bussell is to join the judging panel alongside Len Goodman, Craig Rev… Continue Reading
Scottish Ballet - A Streetcar Named Desire - Sadler's Wells
The result is everything you could want of Tennessee Williams — florid, poetic, poisonously beautiful — while retaining a completely lucid plot, with Peter Salem’s jazz-based-melting-pot score providing just the right amount of New Orleans seasoning to the action.
Ballet Revolución at the Peacock Theatre
I admire the muscular verve and unsparing eagerness of its cast – notably the men – but can find no choreographic virtues in it other than those of a cabaret of no great finesse
Review: Compass
This vibrant show brought together a team of choreographers, a writer, a film-maker, designers, composers & musicians with a cast of over 100 performers from a variety of backgrounds. Continue Reading
Ballet Revolución at the Peacock Theatre
Ballet Revolución is a bit like watching an MTV miscellany while doing cardio in the gym: it pumps you up, delivers an endorphin high, and afterwards you feel rather exhausted.