July 2012
News: Chiswick based dance studios to let...
Rambert Dance Company are on the move to a new, purpose-built home on the South Bank and their home since 1971 is now back on the market. Continue Reading
Review: Peter Schaufuss Ballet - Tchaikovsky Trilogy – The Nutcracker
On the night when at least 27 million of us watched the Olympic Opening Ceremony, how many would turn up at the London Coliseum to see the concluding part of the Schaufuss Tchaikovsky trilogy? Continue Reading
News: London 2012 - Isles of Wonder
Akram Khan put contemporary dance centre stage in the opening ceremony for the London 2012 Olympics - but NBC, the US TV network, decided to cut it from their broadcasts. Continue Reading
Peter Schaufuss Ballet - Tchaikovsky Trilogy – The Nutcracker
It was hampered by a taped score, by dodgy choreography and by some sheets of crackling perspex that creaked across the stage whenever the action shifted into the sphere of dreams.
Review: Peter Schaufuss Ballet - Tchaikovsky Trilogy – Sleeping Beauty
Performance reviewed: 24 July The Schaufuss trilogy of Tchaikovsky ballets begins to take a more coherent shape after this second part. A baton has been handed on from the first ballet ( Swan Lake) such that S… Continue Reading
News: Dance in the Olympic Opening Ceremony
Everyone is #savingthesurprise - but we do know some of the dancers and choreographers involved... Continue Reading
Review: Peter Schaufuss Ballet - Tchaikovsky Trilogy – Swan Lake
The concept of turning the three Tchaikovsky ballets into a triptych has promise. But the gulf between this good idea and the successful delivery of this first part of the trilogy turns out to be as huge as the … Continue Reading
Peter Schaufuss Ballet - Tchaikovsky Trilogy – Swan Lake
But anyone who messes with a classic has to know clearly what they’re doing, and have the resources to do it. Schaufuss fails on both counts.
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – Fase - Tate Modern Tank
But with the audience up close and on all sides, this staging also highlights human detail: the sense of feminine complicity, the alternately girly and boyish looks imparted by costume (swishy skirts, plain trousers) or gesture
Royal Ballet - Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 - Royal Opera House
It’s quite simply the most exciting new triple bill in memory. What a way to go.
Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures - Play Without Words
As with all Bourne’s best work, the detail and the humour is delicious. A game of charades, crisply timed to Terry Davies’s fabulous jazz score, is alone worth the price of the ticket.
News: One thousand dancers in one Square, for one performance only...
My energy is boosted by the vast number of dancers & I can’t seem to wipe this smile off my face! It must be the biggest audience I will ever perform for & the largest group of dancers I will be a … Continue Reading
Feature: Dancing Voices - celebrating six decades
On Wednesday in Big Dance week, hundreds of dancers and singers, most aged 60 plus, performed to a full house of 900 people in the Queen Elizabeth Hall - Claire Woodward reports. Continue Reading
Review: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker – Fase - Tate Modern Tanks
Tate Modern's new subterranean space - The Tanks - make a surprisingly sympathetic place to get to know de Keersmaeker's work afresh – and perhaps even attract some new fans. Continue Reading
News: Royal Ballet announce guest artists
Sergei Polunin returns to Covent Garden to partner Tamara Rojo in 'farewell' performances - and Natalia Osipova makes her Royal Ballet debut in Swan Lake - dancing with Carlos Acosta Continue Reading