According to Carlson’s programme note, the lemons represent segments of challenge and confrontation...
Archive - April 2015
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
This handsomely-crafted and well-danced Swan Lake marked an important milestone for the Washington Ballet and proved a huge achievement for its artistic director Septime Webre.
Gallery of pictures by Dave Morgan
Ballet San Jose is full of surprises...
Natalia Osipova, Ivan Vasiliev, Edward Watson and Marcelo Gomes star in ARDANI 25 DANCE GALA Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July 2015, London Coliseum This summer’s hot dance ticket will be the ARDANI 25 DANCE GALA at the Coliseum on Friday 17th and Saturday 18th July, presented by producer and impresario Sergei Danilian (Ardani Artists). The evening features an all-star line-up including Natalia...
Oksana Khadarina reviews the Serenade, Agon and Symphony in C bill - prepare for many happy adjectives and lots of history...
It’s a disconcerting feeling when you don’t respond to a piece that nearly everyone else agrees is revelatory. That’s the situation I find myself in with Alexei Ratmansky’s Shostakovich Trilogy.
Farooq Chaudhry has stepped down as Chair of Dance UK in the furore around UK contemporary dance training.
Do catch it if you want to enjoy the energy and shared commitment of its young performers.
In both shows, the most exciting element was the push-and-pull between the music-making and the dancing.
Gallery of pictures by Stephen Wright
My People is a mature work, developed in close collaboration with the composers, that deserves to be widely seen.
After its premiere in Paris last autumn, Christopher Wheeldon's An American in Paris is about to open in New York. Marina Harss talks to Wheeldon and the 2 stars of the show - Leanne Cope and Robert Fairchild...
Rambert dancer Stephen Wright is also a photographer - here he blogs about what's like to perform on stage, as seen from the wings. Enjoy...
...for the world premiere of Biophony, King collaborated with the entire natural world....
None of it made any sense, and yet there were moments of heart-catching beauty...
Flexn is interesting because it seems to be just as much about narrative as it is about moves. The dancers take the lyrics of rap and hip hop songs and make stories out of them.
Both nights that I attended were blessed with an exquisite Cinderella. Gillian Murphy gave this production a beating heart with her tenderly expressive and incisive performance...
There are dances that grip you from the first moment, and others that get under your skin, little by little, drop by drop. Liz Gerring’s Glacier is the latter...