January 2017
News: Wayne Sleep OBE is new Ambassador for the London Boys Ballet School
“We are all very excited and truly honoured that Wayne Sleep is supporting our school as Ambassador. With our continually expanding team and upcoming teacher appointments, we look forward to many future ac… Continue Reading
English National Ballet - Giselle - London Coliseum
A traditional production with a beautiful central performance. the story of a peasant girl who dies of a broken heart when betrayed by her nobleman lover (don't worry, it all comes back to haunt him), but whatever the age, Giselle can be a ballet of great power, espe…
Wayne McGregor - Woolf Works - Royal Opera House
McGregor’s choreography plangently suggests the fleeting passage of life and light, until the final, inexorable darkness that ends a work whose subtle play of intellect and emotion make it, not merely a beautiful exercise in narrative metamorphosis, but a meditation…
Royal Ballet - Les Enfants Terribles – Barbican
Moreover, Glass’s unusually spiky score – for just three pianos – is less immersive than you might hope...De Frutos’s enjoyably impish dash of Last Supper imagery in the latter stages. But it all ultimately feels remote: an intriguing and mildy out…
Dewey Dell - Marzo - The Pit, Barbican
The piece is dreamily surreal. Teodora Castellucci’s choreography has a simplistic, counter-gravitational quality to it that melds seamlessly with Demetrio Castellucci’s crunching electronic score (Teodora and Demetrio are brother and sister; a third sibling, …
Dancing Bear, Dancing Bear - Camden People’s Theatre
It begins with the men completely naked – so we can be in no doubt of their sex – but gradually boundaries blur as gender is performed, and emotional coercion and physical control come to the fore. Ryan and Evans respond to Ringham’s voice. Who controls …
Royal Ballet - Les Enfants Terribles – Barbican
Yet despite the best efforts of De Frutos and his team, there are real problems with the opera itself. Its music, scored for thee pianos, drives a compelling emotional pulse, yet the vocal lines are often strangely inexpressive and the work’s dramatic pace veers odd…
Review: Royal Ballet - Les Enfants Terribles – Barbican
Cocteau’s 1929 novel morphed into a “dance-opera”: for the Barbican’s Glass at 80 celebrations, Javier de Frutos created a completely new choreography for the piece, and drew in a delicio… Continue Reading
Review: Hagit Yakira Dance - Air Hunger/Free Falling - Trinity Laban Theatre
...that sometimes everyone falls, not everyone can be caught, and sometimes you need to ask for help to get back up again. Continue Reading
News: Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit : 2017
The Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit is back for 2017 with a raft of new guest speakers, entrepreneurs and artists.On Friday 31 March 2017 at Stratford Circus, East London Dance will be hosting a day of conversation… Continue Reading
News: How to… get boys dancing
Last year we encountered a seven-year-old boy who had been selected by our partner The Royal Ballet School Primary Steps programme to take part in a special dance opportunity. His father’s response was: &l… Continue Reading
Review: English National Ballet - Giselle - London Coliseum
...a seemingly unending torrent of performances; this was a little gem. An authentic revival of a French ballet given a Russian gloss (albeit by a young man from North Ferriby) stamped with an indelible splash … Continue Reading
News: Innovative mental health dance programme to help young people
A brand new partnership with HeadStart Newham Mental Health Prevention Programme and the return of the annual Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit and Ideas Fund are the first of a raft of new projects for 2017 announce… Continue Reading
Review: Imbalance - Joli Vyann - Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
...two people, and two smartphones. And it’s this truth that’s brought to light so strikingly in Imbalance, a duet performed by former stunt man and circus artist Jan Patzke and ex-gymnast and dancer … Continue Reading
News: Meet Hagit Yakira, founder of Hagit Yakira Dance
I always had a great passion to engage dance in the community. I didn’t want to distinguish my choreographic practice from the people. I want my work to be created with them, through them; I want the work t… Continue Reading
