Reviews
Review: THE ROYAL BALLET - JEWELS
Created in response to his visit to the Fifth Avenue jewellers Van Cleef & Arpels, the Russian-American choreographer’s plotless ballet presents three distinctive works, each representing a jewel motif;… Continue Reading
Review: 2017 Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit, East London Dance, Stratford Circus
The Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit is an annual event offering artists, producers, venues and organisations from East London and beyond the opportunity to share and exchange enterprising ideas in dance. Continue Reading
Review: English National Ballet — Pina Bausch / William Forsythe / Hans van Manen - Sadler's Wells
Above all it’s the attention to detail, precision that demands respect here. In a rush to put out new work so many companies appear under rehearsed but that cannot be said about this piece, indeed this whol… Continue Reading
Review: Christopher Wheeldon - An American in Paris - Dominion Theatre
I think this American in Paris proves problematic. For a dance to fully express a narrative moment it needs time to unravel – but this disrupts the musical’s flow and makes for pauses and longueurs. … Continue Reading
Review: James Cousins Company - Rosalind - The Place
...there’s a lot going on throughout the 60 minute piece, repetition and unison are welcome breaks and one such section is an orgiastic club scene; here the company dance flat out inside the confined space,… Continue Reading
Review: Adam Linder - AUTO FICTO REFLEXO - Lilian Baylis Studio
highlighting diagrammatic reflections of the conversations that take place on stage. I would need to write a sonnet of Shakespearian proportions to adequately reflect Acto’s masterful structure, syntax and … Continue Reading
Review: Company Chameleon - Witness Double Bill - Trinity Laban Theatre
Each movement spoke 1000 words illustrating the physical and mental entrapment of bipolar; its contrasting states additionally reflected by stark changes in the score, lights and interactions: dark, fearful and … Continue Reading