May 2012
News: Flagging up the Jubilee
This Sunday30 dancers will be on the roof of the Royal Festival Hall using semaphore flags to send a message to Her Majesty in a new work by choreographer Lea Anderson. Continue Reading
Review: Danza Contemporanea De Cuba at Sadler's Wells
A slow beginning transformed into an upbeat ending in which the vitality of the material at last brought out the very best in the skill, musicality and athleticism of these outstanding dancers. Continue Reading
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba - Triple Bill
The finest dancing shows effort husbanded for the tremendous moment. Undisciplined – as it manically is in this appearance by Danza Contemporánea – it bangs at our sensibilities, hammers on and relentlessly on, and is a thumping bore.http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/00c2a7…
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba - Triple Bill
I found Sombrisa, by Netherlands-based Israeli Itzik Galili, the most captivating piece. Its pattering percussion score (Steve Reich’s Drumming) offers the choreography more texture than foothold, so Galili has to construct his own compositional framework.
![Akademi in Westminster Hall. [detail] Reproduced with the permission of Parliament.](/files/images/pageimage/17950.030b1180.jpg.cropped/130x130.fitandcrop.jpg "Akademi goes to parliament")
News: Akademi goes to parliament
The leading South Asian Dance organisation is creating a site specific piece for the 900 year old Westminster Hall to be performed on 5 July Continue Reading
Review: Company Chameleon - Springloaded at The Place
Anthony Missen & Kevin Edward Turner can't be accused of being workshy. As well as choreographing & performing, they've turned their hands to scriptwriting, acting & film for this production. Continue Reading
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Sadler's Wells
You may smile at Mr Bourne’s early adventures, then, and marvel a little. But best save your cheers for the superior sophistication of his Play Without Words, next up for revival.
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Sadler's Wells
…like his work or resist it, his productions capture an audience’s attention, speak frankly and engagingly, and earn affection.
News: ACE announces two new grant commissions
ACE has announced two major new grant commissions now open for work with children and young people. Continue Reading
Review: Vera Tussing You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet
Any possibility of passive watching is out; by heightening awareness of layers of sound & vision, Tussing engaged on another level. To be blunt, it’s harder work than watching your average dance piece. Continue Reading
Review: Emio Greco | PC at Southbank Centre
Walking into the QEH you half expected to smell cigarettes & sweat, and to feel the stickiness of spilt beer underfoot. A boxing ring occupied the stage, complete with ringside seats and a haze of smoky fog … Continue Reading
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Sadler's Wells
Spitfire / Town & Country / The Infernal Galop Reviewed: 22 May 2012 I imagine that Matthew Bourne’s earliest adventures involved a radiogram, permanently set to the Light Programme and dishing out jolly … Continue Reading
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Sadler's Wells
The Early Adventures are three dances by a pre-Swan Lake Matthew Bourne, who made clever, musically sophisticated in-jokes and let the box-office take care of itself.
Royal Ballet - Ballo Della Regina/ La Sylphide at Royal Opera House
Johan Kobborg’s staging of La Sylphide is the best I know, the most sensitive to Bournonville’s drama and manner. And Steven McRae’s James is the finest (bar one) that I have known in all my years of adoring this beautiful flower of Romanticism.
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Sadler's Wells
he images and jokes whirl deliriously by, and if the evening’s overall structure becomes slightly repetitious, the wit of the performances and Lez Brotherston’s immensely clever redesign more than compensate.