April 2013
News: East London Dance announce new Director
Polly Risbridger has been appointed as Director to succeed Kiki Gale. "East London is a very special place for dance with a thriving community and an entrepreneurial spirit." Polly says. Continue Reading
Feature: Ten years of Breakin' Convention
Jonzi D, Tony Adigun (Avant Garde Dance) Michael Asante & Kendrick Sandy (Boy Blue Entertainment) talk about the first ten years of Breakin’ Convention on video.. Continue Reading
News: The making of Raven Girl
Wayne McGregor's first narrative-based ballet will be performed at the Royal Opera House at the end of May. Sally Williams (Telegraph) finds out how the collaboration between McGregor and author Audrey Niffe… Continue Reading
News: How dance liberated women
In the Guardian Judith Mackrell discusses how Josephine Baker, Maud Allen & dances such as the Charleston influenced the growing independence and freedom of women in the early 20th century. Continue Reading
News: Sexism in dance
Last week The Female Choreographers Collective, founded by Holly Noble and Jane Coulston launched The Experiment at Laban Theatre to try and answer some questions about what llies at the root of the under repres… Continue Reading
Review: The Experiment - Female Choreographers Collective - Laban Theatre
What’s matters most, the dance itself or knowing the gender of whoever created it? And after acquiring this knowledge, what assumptions do we make about what we choose to see or how we then perceive it? Continue Reading
Review: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Puz/zle - Sadler's Wells
Monks, martial arts, migrants and musicians have all worked with the award-winning dancemaker; with his Eastman company, Cherkaoui now presents his most ambitious work to date. Continue Reading
News: Royal Ballet scoop Oliviers for dance
Awards for Christopher Wheeldon and Marianela Nunez & our gallery of photos from the red carpet... Continue Reading
News: Riccardo Buscarini wins The Place Prize
At the end of ten evenings’ performances of the four works which made it through to the final of the UK’s biggest competition for contemporary choreography, Riccardo Buscarini emerged as the judges choic… Continue Reading
The Place Prize Finals 2013
Buscarini’s Athletes is a good choice because it employs advanced dance skills without being ponderously dance-referential. It’s a work whose eerily suggestive beauty will speak to all comers.
Royal Ballet - Mayerling - Royal Opera House
Mayerling is a ballet whose horror and darkness seem to expand with every performance. As a theatrical experience it’s unforgettable.
The Place Prize Finals 2013
It’s her force of personality, sharp timing and sheer technique that carry this intricate, layered piece [The Wishing Well] about memory and the hopes and desires of childhood, and the way they are tempered and transformed in later life.
Royal Ballet - Mayerling - Royal Opera House
Watson tackles each dialogue with such intelligence, such naturalism, such physical command that whole back-stories are made flesh and each solo becomes a distinct stage in the syphilitic prince’s decline.
News: The Olivier Awards - for dance
The winners of this year's Society of London Theatre awards have been announced - find out who won & take a look at the contenders in the dance categories Continue Reading
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Puz/zle - Sadler's Wells
Cherkaoui is brilliant at creating striking images, and his dancers never look less than beautiful or perform with anything other than staggering, fluid skill. But apart from one sunlit scene where sculptors chisel their bodies into shape, the tone is unrelentingly earnest.