April 2015
Feature: Breakin' Convention Preview Picks
Get to know a few of the artists who'll be bringing alternative and fusion styles to Breakin' Convention this weekend... Continue Reading
Review: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo - Roméo et Juliette - London Coliseum
This best-known tale of love and death has been superbly reduced to the concentrated essence of splendid dance theatre. Continue Reading
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Ahnen - Sadler’s Wells
Bausch seems to be portraying our world through the eyes of a visiting alien, choreographing a comedy of touching, silly, cruel, occasionally enchanting but ultimately pointless human activity.
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo - Roméo et Juliette - London Coliseum
On a set of curved white walls, Maillot declutters the ballet’s epic realism: there are no harlots, prissy sword fights or members of the corps de ballet pretending to sell things to each other. Instead, pale-toned Capulets meet Montagues in costumes of purple and char…
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo - Roméo et Juliette - London Coliseum
This is a Romeo and Juliet stripped of fustian trappings, in which exuberant bonds of male friendship, mother-daughter conflict and the flowering of first love are explored with tender psychological acuity.
Review: Liz Aggiss - The English Channel - The Place
Witty, lewd and unapologetic, performance artist Liz Aggiss' latest work contains equal measures of gallows humour and English seaside smut. Continue Reading
News: Hofesh Shechter launches #HOFEST
The four-week season will be the company’s largest season of work in the capital to date, with performances at Royal Opera House, Sadler’s Wells, O2 Academy Brixton, East London, Dance and Stratford Circus. Continue Reading
Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch - Ahnen - Sadler’s Wells
There’s a feeling of global wandering... and the desert evoked by the giant (and undeniably phallic) cacti seems less of a physical location and more a place of the soul. Continue Reading
News: Dance & theatre at Latitude 2015
Rambert's 'Rooster', NYDC, Company Chameleon, East London Dance's 'Club Life' and Figs in Wigs are some of the first dance performances at Latitude 2015 to be announced this week... Continue Reading
Review: Royal Ballet - La Fille mal gardée - Royal Opera House
Throughout the cast The Royal Ballet are a credit to Ashton’s legacy and to his belief that the ballet would – like the subject matter – be an eternal spring, infused with a rich new life throug… Continue Reading
News: Royal Ballet announce 2015/16 season
- including a new version of 'Carmen' from Carlos Acosta; a new full length ballet by Liam Scarlett based on 'Frankenstein' & new one act ballets from Wayne McGregor & Christopher Wheeldon... Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - La Fille mal gardée - Royal Opera House
When Muntagirov is dancing his solo variations, he rises to moments of transcendence, his long legs and arms sustaining beautiful shapes in the air and finding their own music within the choreography.
Royal Ballet - La Fille mal gardée - Royal Opera House
Add a plucky quintet of chickens, a decorous octet of friends, fine (if occasionally hurried) work from the corps and zesty playing from the pit, and you have an evening that effervesced from start to finish with life, love and laughter.
News: Dance education - the real challenges
Independent Dance's Kirsty Alexander & Gitta Wigro say recent high profile arguments about training elite dancers for mainstream companies are missing the point... Continue Reading
Feature: Figs in Wigs - playing with movement
"We started making dance as soon as we started making theatre. As untrained dancers we developed a simple system of our own to create routines in a democratic manner..." Continue Reading