September 2015
News: New home for dance in Nottingham
Nottingham based Dance4 is getting a new home as a former hosiery factory in the city is being transformed into a new hub for the creative industries. Continue Reading
Review: Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui - Yabin Studio / Eastman – Genesis – Sadler’s Wells
Larbi collaborates with Chinese choreographer Yabin Wang on a production centred around the idea of our estrangement from the natural world... Continue Reading
Interview: Borderline - where hip hop meets aerial meets contemporary...
Sébastien Ramirez talks to Lise Smith about the new full length piece he's made with partner Honji Wang. Watch a clip & catch it at Sadler's Wells this weekend... Continue Reading
News: World Ballet Day LIVE
The Royal Ballet streams five hours of backstage footage this Thursday 1 October with content from Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet. Continue Reading
Feature: Hearing the sound of the dance...
Choreographer Joss Arnott has bagged a collaboration with Grammy Award winning percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Lyndsey Winship went along to meet them both, with composer James Keane... Continue Reading
Review: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo - programme 2 - The Peacock
Whether reincarnating old “ballerinas” or inventing new ones, the continuing regeneration of the Trocks is an ongoing process of seamless joy! Continue Reading
Review: Botis Seva - Wild Card - InNoForm - Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
- a riveting melting pot of artistic inquiry and unique vision. Continue Reading
News: New Executive Director for Shobana Jeyasingh Dance.
Amanda Skoog, who has been Managing Director of Royal New Zealand Ballet since 2006, will begin with the company next month. Continue Reading
Review: Cas Public – Symphonie Dramatique - Linbury Studio Theatre, ROH
Performance reviewed 23 September To complement the 50th anniversary revival of Kenneth Macmillan’s Romeo And Juliet , the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Studio Theatre offers Symphonie Dramatique, a very diffe… Continue Reading
News: EVOLVE Workshop is back
Want to get further in your dance career? Dancers' Career Development and The Royal ballet are here to help. Continue Reading
Hofesh Shechter Company - barbarians - Sadler's Wells
All in all, a fascinating, volatile evening, as cerebral as it is crazy, but one that’s also wilfully eel-like, shamelessly repetitive and in need of a ruthless shear.
Review: Royal Ballet - Romeo and Juliet - Royal Opera House
I can’t count the times I’ve seen MacMillan’s 'Romeo and Juliet', but thanks to Ross MacGibbon’s direction, here I picked out many nuances not normally seen from a seat in the Ro… Continue Reading
Interview: Welly O'Brien - a year of Frida
Welly O'Brien danced in two contrasting productions inspired by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo recently. She tells us about them & looks back on a long career, sparked by an encounter with Candoco Dance Company Continue Reading
Hofesh Shechter Company - barbarians - Sadler's Wells
Shechter is one of the most exciting choreographers on the planet but on this occasion thrills are in short supply.
Hofesh Shechter Company - barbarians - Sadler's Wells
It’s a show that’s frequently surprising. It’s also frustrating, alienating, amusing, visceral, exciting and when Shechter’s voice comes over the speakers, knowingly navel-gazing.