September 2013
Review: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Triple Bill - Sadler's Wells
These performers are at the very pinnacle of their profession and they are a delight to watch, whatever the material they are interpreting. Catch on a UK tour until 19 October... Continue Reading
An Autumn Gala of Dance and Song - Sadler's Wells
The gala was particularly strong on male dancing. Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Brandon Lawrence, recently a YBSS star pupil, danced Christopher Tudor’s When the Time Comes with poised elegance. Rambert’s Dane Hurst moved with sumptuous, animal warmth in Mark Baldwin…
Review: Russell Maliphant - Still Current - The Point Eastleigh
Maliphant's new programme of work opened last week at The Point, Eastleigh last week - catch it in London at artsdepot this Wednesday... Continue Reading
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Triple Bill - Sadler's Wells
The New York company is an incredible troupe of dancers, who can turn their hands (and finely honed bodies) to any style. The company has a great track record of commissioning new work from some of the world’s most talked-about choreographers and this second visit to…
Mark Bruce Company - Dracula - Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Bruce retains the skeleton of Stoker’s plot, but spins out the physical stories with bone-dry wit and florid sensuality. He also rescues the piece from absurdity – laughter is to the gothic as garlic is to the vampire – with a deft reversal of emphasis.
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet - Triple Bill - Sadler's Wells
Simple gestures resonate with poetry – one dancer places a calming hand above his convulsive partner in an arresting moment of tenderness and command.
Mark Bruce Company - Dracula - Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Jonathan Goddard, who plays the count, steals the show. He has a gaunt and chiseled physiognomy that fits the part, and he manages to move and act in a way that subtly evokes an unholy mixture of profound melancholy, vulnerability and ferocity.
News: Keeping a clear head
Scientists at Imperial College have shown that ballet dancers' brains adapt to allow them to perform multiple pirouettes without dizziness... Continue Reading
News: Hofesh Shechter to Direct Brighton Festival next May
Following in the footsteps of Anish Kapoor, Brian Eno and Aung San Suu Kyi, choreographer Shechter will be Guest Director of the Brighton Festival in 2014 Continue Reading
Interview: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet's Ebony Williams
As well as dancing with New York based Cedar Lake, Ebony has a commercial career which includes dancing with Beyoncé in her 'Single Ladies' video... Continue Reading
News: Wayne McGregor - Thinking with the Body
An exhibition at the Wellcome Collection looks at the collaborations with scientists undertaken by Wayne McGregor and his company Random in the last decade.. Continue Reading
News: Crystal Pite
Canadian choreographer Pite's work 'Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue' is part of US company Cedar Lake's triple bill at Sadler's Wells this week. Continue Reading
News: London's most influential dance figures
The Evening Standard have announced The Power 1000, a list of London's most influential people in 2013. Amongst them are 10 of the most influential figures in dance. Continue Reading
News: Open House at White Lodge
The home of the Royal Ballet Lower School is open to the public for Open House London 2013. Sarah Crompton looks at the history of the building in the Telegraph. Continue Reading
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – Thinking With The Body
Exercises like this are familiar ingredients of improvisation workshops, but the desire to commodify and regulate them feels to me like a troubling symptom of the tendency to direct, measure and control every aspect of artistic endeavour, which has already stifled crea…