Features
Feature: Darshan Singh Bhuller 'Caravaggio: Exile and Death'
Darshan Singh Bhuller’s latest dance theatre work is inspired by the life and work of the 17th century master painter, Caravaggio. Caravaggio: Exile and Death takes the audience on one man’s search f… Continue Reading
Feature: TAO Dance Theatre
TAO Dance Theatre has performed in every modern dance festival throughout China and collaborated with leading Chinese artists across genres including theatre, experimental music, visual arts and installation. T… Continue Reading
Feature: Looking East
Out of Asia – a season of work from China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Japan and Taiwan runs at Sadler’s Wells until 16 November. David K.S.Tse, Creative Director of Chinatown Arts Space is seeing the four… Continue Reading
Feature: Rambert Dance Company, Seven for a secret, never to be told
Behind-the-scenes of Mark Baldwin’s Seven for a secret, never to be told Set to music based on Ravel’s opera L’enfant et les sortileges, adapted by Stephen McNeff with designs by Michael Howel… Continue Reading
Feature: Scottish Ballet
Created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1965 Song of the Earth is set to Mahler’s song cycle Das Lied von der Erde, the lyrics to which were freely translated from a collection of eighth century Chinese poems. Re… Continue Reading
Feature: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
White is divided into three distinct parts – each part presenting a different type of ‘white’. Set to music by Japanese composer Atsuhiko Gondai, The Bowed Piano Ensemble founder Stephen Scot… Continue Reading
Feature: Win tickets to seen film of Merce Cunningham's Ocean!
!! Ocean_*_Film of Merce Cunningham’s landmark production by Charles Atlas (2010).*4pm, 8 October 2011. Barbican Cinema 1. Tickets £10.50 (£9.50 online).“www.barbican.org.uk”: On the day of t… Continue Reading
Feature: Clod Ensemble
Clod Ensemble presents An Anatomie in Four Quarters The physical structure of the body and the magnificent anatomy of Sadler’s Wells theatre are both dissected as the audience promenade to different viewi… Continue Reading
Feature: Fabulous Beat and Liam Ó Maonlaí 'Rian'
Michael Keegan-Dolan and musician Liam Ó Maonlaí come together to create a new production that takes its title from Ó Maonlaí‘s 2005 solo album Rian, which means ‘mark’ or ‘traceR… Continue Reading
Feature: ZooNation, 'Some Like It Hip Hop'
Some Like it Hip Hop, written by ZooNation founder Kate Prince and Felix Harrison, is a full-length production with a nod to Billy Wilder’s film and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Some Like it Hip Hop… Continue Reading
Feature: Shaun Parker and Company
Created by Australian choreographer Shaun Parker, Happy as Larry is a funny, playful and poignant new dance show, which investigates the nature of human happiness. Happy as Larry combines a mix of ballet, break… Continue Reading
Feature: Jérôme Bel & Cédric Andrieux - story of a dancer
The autumn feast of Dance Umbrella 2011 starts this weekend (Merce Circus 1 & 2 Oct, Stratford Circus))!Donald Hutera (dance critic for The Times and contributor to many other publications) talks to choreogr… Continue Reading
Feature: Merce Cunningham Dance Company - final London performances
The choreographer Merce Cunningham died two years ago, aged 90, in New York City where his eponymous and world-renowned company has been based for over half a century. During his lifetime he created dances that… Continue Reading
Feature: Celebrating Candoco
It’s been two decades since Candoco Dance Company first burst onto the UK dance scene, expanding the ways in which people both with and without disabilities could be seen moving onstage together. So ground… Continue Reading
Feature: Creating Clarity - Emanuel Gat Dance
As well as making work for his own company, choreographer Emanuel Gat (born in Israel, now based in France) has been a guest choreographer with Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet de Geneve, Sydney Dance Company and Lon… Continue Reading