★★★★✰ Hofesh Shechter created Political Mother in 2010 as a rebuke to totalitarianism and oppressive propaganda.
Archive - May 2016
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ Esa-Pekka Salonen is conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra in a Stravinsky festival, the first concert of which included a collaboration with Karole Armitage's company on "Agon" - famously originally choreographed by Balanchine...
★★★★✰ It isn’t often that a gala program proves satisfying, but this one was the exception.
★★★★✰ Having missed the opening night of the BalletBoyz tour, at Sadler’s Wells, a few weeks ago, I caught up with it, just three bus stops away from my home...
★★★✰✰ "... Wink is a 4 star piece. We need to see more of Jessica Lang’s work..."
★★★★✰ Winks, finger wags, flamboyant leaps in a criminally short leather skirt – Carlos Acosta gives the people what they want in this winsome bill, a mix of variations he’s assembled to mark his retirement after more than 25 years on stage.
More from ABT's run of Ashton's "Sylvia" - the time Marina Harss reviews Maria Kochetkova and Herman Cornejo...
★★★★✰ The centrepiece of this richly diverse programme was a dance puzzle, perhaps broadly equivalent to a game of three-dimensional chess.
★★★★✰ Part of the secret to Sylvia is of course Léo Delibes’s score; like the story, it has its silly moments, but when it soars, it is utterly seductive...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Vienna Waltzes is a sure-fire hit. It seduces on many fronts: the ridiculously flattering gowns by Karinska (her last for the company), the sumptuous music, the multitudes of dancers...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Alongside her work as a dancer and choreographer, Eliceche is a political activist and a student of critical theory, both of which influence her approach to dance.
Well known in North America and her native Australia Lucy Guerin is starting to do more in the UK and Europe and this week unveils Tomorrow, her new work for Rambert...
★★★★✰ The entire work is a kind of meditation, a slow ritual or pilgrimage for its cast across mounds of rice that could be mountains or rivers.
International Dance Festival Birmingham is back for a fifth time, running now (1 - 22 May 2016) and larger than ever we think. To find out more we did an email interview with David Massingham - Co-Artistic Director of IDFB...
★★★✰✰ Liam Scarlett treats Mary Shelley’s 1818 gothic horror novel, Frankenstein, as essentially a domestic drama.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...