The choreography is determined by the need for co-operative effort in manipulating unpredictable swathes of fabric – a metaphor for mankind’s attempts to control the forces of nature
Archive - November 2014
...it’s only a rehearsal first appeared over a decade ago and has since become Ina Christel Johannessen’s international calling card...
Part of the Northern Light Season at Sadler's Wells. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The Place’s adventurous four-day Currency Festival aims for the quirky in its mix of dance and circus acts from across Europe...
Osipova’s vitality is astonishing: the minute she stepped onstage, it’s as if the whole world became a few shades brighter...
Eight paragraphs of praise and I haven’t yet mentioned Alina Cojocaru! My advice to anyone yearning to see the special beauty of ballet is simple: take any chance you can to see Cojocaru dance.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The Mad Hatter from The Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in a dance-off against The Mad Hatter from ZooNation’s brand new hip-hop dance show The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
The programme was so underwhelming that I went twice in succession, to see whether alternative casts could make a difference.
Northern Ballet is delighted to announce it will introduce a new strand of touring from 2015, widening the Company’s already extensive reach to an impressive 500,000 people from 2015 – 2018.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
...AM I is a thematic magpie, shifting from the macro to the micro and back again in its exploration of the nexus of religion and science.
Both of these performers are at the top of their game. It’s an intense experience, 70 minutes without interval but the flow of invention doesn’t cease.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Ondiviela has established himself as a choreographer on a bigger scale than before, though still in need of an outside eye as he goes freelance. And he has found a future star in Olivia Cowley.
The Washington Ballet hit all the right marks with its 70th anniversary season opening program at the Sidney Harman Hall in October.
It’s not often we get such high quality performances of live music for contemporary dance. Here their playing was wonderfully focused and alive...
Herein lies one of the more unfortunate traits of Kontakthof: there is more madness than dancing...