Reviews
Review: Routes to the River - Big Dance 2014
It’s not often I check the weather before going to see a dance production, but 'Routes to the River' takes place outside, in the parks and gardens between Siobhan Davies Studios & Southbank Ce… Continue Reading
Review: Paul White - Anatomy of an Afternoon - Purcell Room, Southbank Centre
The taut musculature of Mr White seems to almost ooze around the stage at a subtly shifting, humid pace... Continue Reading
Brasil Brasileiro - Sadler's Wells
Many of the dancers were recruited from the favelas rather than formal dance school, and this gives them a raw energy, as they switch from hyper-sexy to cartoon-tender in a second. Forget showgirls in feathers, this is sensuality rather than bootylicious cliché.
New English Ballet Theatre - Tryst: Devotion and Betrayal - Peacock Theatre
What’s so enjoyable about Mad Women is not just the dryness of its wit and its deft U-turns of fantasy, but also that it elicits such alert, intelligent performances from its cast.
Yvonne Rainer - Dance Works - Raven Row
…at the heart of the exhibition are Rainer’s dances, four of which are being performed throughout its run. The most familiar is Trio A (1966), a 10-minute sequence of seemingly disconnected moves – from simple arm-swings to whimsically asymmetric footwo…
Paul White - Anatomy of an Afternoon - Purcell Room
We discover [Paul] White gripped by a narcoleptic torpor, from which he gradually rouses himself, assuming a series of quasi-animal forms – now spiderish, now ape-like – before driving himself to sweat-drenched exhaustion through a series of raw, self-exploratory rituals.
Les Saisons Russes du XX1 siècle - Le Coq d’Or - London Coliseum
Oleg Fomin is the idle, blustering King Dodon, Natalia Savelieva is the calculating Queen of Shemakha, all smouldering glances and sultry split jetés, and Pavel Okunev is the Golden Cockerel, a powerful and even threatening presence with his beating wings and stabbing feet.