June 2012
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Too Mortal at St Mary's Church
As Jeyasingh works around the wooden benches, finding ways to vary the movement, the dancing becomes vividly evocative. There’s sea imagery as the dancers bob in and out of sight, and patterns that suggest machine parts or a hunt in process.
News: John Percival
A prolific writer on dance for many publications, including The Times and the Independent, John Percival died recently, at the age of 85 Continue Reading
News: Arriving at St Pancras International - Big Dance 2012!
The Mayor of London, Arlene Phillips and hundreds of dancers from around the UK launch Big Dance week with a whole day of dance on the station concourses next Thursday Continue Reading
News: Summer 2012 dance round up
UPDATE: Streb Actions Extraordinary Day is today – Sunday 15 July.Check http://surprises-streb.co.uk/ for locations With London getting ready for its busiest summer ever, we’ve picked some of the not to … Continue Reading
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Der Fensterputzer - Sadler's Wells
Fensterputzer has more unadorned dance than usual, with smooth solos and a terrific massed hand-jive, but it’s mostly just a triumph of stage direction. If only someone would complete the picture: sing an aria, make a speech, make a point…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Nefés - Sadler's Wells
Fernando Suels Mendoza’s dance of almost spiritual devotion might be the most gripping thing I’ve seen all year. It reminds you that when Bausch’s work is good, it’s astonishing, but it would surely be more potent in a concentrated form.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch- Bamboo Blues - Barbican Theatre
while evincing a typically Bauschian strain of melancholy – the fretting breeze that worries ceaselessly at Peter Pabst’s white drapery set, the sad knowledge in the eyes of the women – the piece is also shot through with colour, light and dance.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Der Fensterputzer - Sadler's Wells
Unfortunately, we’ve been here too often before with Bausch, and at times the straining for effect becomes frantic.
Review: Hofesh Shechter Company Dancers - In Good Company - The Place
Masterful performances abound throughout the evening. Philip Hulford and Victoria Hoyland, in particular, impress in James Finnemore’s The Age weaving in and out of unison with an emphatic precision. Continue Reading
Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Nefés - Sadler's Wells
The dance is occasionally spectacular, particularly whenever the lightness of Shantala Shivalingappa is involved. She puts no apparent effort into a jump: it is more a mystical exercise in levitation. Continue Reading
Review: The Bridge - Millenium Bridge
The Bridge’s 45 performers are a quiet, unobtrusive but captivating presence. There is an unhurried pace all across the bridge, atypical of a fast-moving, ever-changing city. Continue Reading
News: Finding Inspiration from Outside the Theatre
A theatre seems the obvious place to go to see dance. However, many choreographers are finding inspiration in alternative spaces such as churches, railway stations and city squares. Judith Mackrell meets Shobana … Continue Reading
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch- Bamboo Blues - Barbican Theatre
There are few obvious jokes, and this is a more optimistic piece than most for their absence. Framed around a series of eloquently performed, gliding solo dances, it expresses a profound faith in the body, what it can express and what it can experience.
Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch- Bamboo Blues - Barbican Theatre
"In 2007 Pina Bausch and company were resident in Kolkata. Somehow it's apt that this elegant yet gritty part of the world should inspire an artist whose works could often be described in the same way." Continue Reading
News: Faster, Higher Stronger
The national dance companies (Scottish Ballet, English National Ballet & National Dance Company Wales) Olympic programme Dance GB opened in Glasgow to multi star reviews. Coming this way soon! Continue Reading