★★★★✰ Natalie Weir's "We who are left" is nothing less than a knockout.
Archive - July 2016
Featuring Anna Nikulina | Ruslan Skvortsov and Olga Smirnova | Denis Rodkin. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Jean Abreu Dance Labirinto (based on A Thread) ★★★✰✰ London, Horniman Museum and Gardens 28 July 2016 www.jeanabreudance.com www.horniman.ac.uk The Horniman Museum and Gardens contains eclectic collections of artefacts from around the world, including a huge overstuffed walrus much loved by generations of south London children. In the run-up to the Olympics it has been hosting a series of...
★★★★✰ Sixteen choreographers, 13 new works, 2 dancers, 70 minutes, 4 years in the making. That's the equation for Double Exposure, premiered by the San Francisco contemporary-dance duo RAWdance on Thursday, July 28. It's an epic production that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
5 questions interview with Clemmie Sveaas, the very-much-in-demand freelance dancer who is also a member of the highly respected New Movement Collective. The Collective are about to premiere their latest site-specific work and we wanted to know more...
★★★★✰ Vega has assembled an impressive team for the first leg of her new dance company’s journey. However, she is the talisman throughout.
L.A. Dance Project Harbor Me, Marth Graham duets (White, Star, Moon), Helix, On the Other Side ★★★✰✰ New York, Joyce Theater 27 July 2016 www.ladanceproject.com www.joyce.org LA Story Since his quick exit from the Paris Opera Ballet, the choreographer and former director Benjamin Millepied has recommitted himself to the small Los-Angeles-based company he founded in 2012, L.A. Dance Project. The...
★★★★✰ The Bolshoi’s Don Quixote continues to delight for the exuberance and skill of its range of performers, with the corps de ballet and demi-soloists taking pride of place.
Jeremy McQueen’s dance company, Black Iris Project, have their debut season at New York Live Arts this week - 27 & 28 July. Shanti Crawford spoke with the emerging choreographer about his new company, what drives them and the NY Live Arts bill.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ ...the production lurches between down-to-earth Aussie niceness and the designer’s European conceits...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Australian Ballet (AB) must surely be the only significant ballet company in the world with two Swan Lakes in their active repertoire. Strangely, the one we've seen before in Britain we have just been seeing again...
★★✰✰✰ There is a great deal of ambition in the latest show from the superlative flamenco guitarist, composer and producer Paco Peña.
★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet School in particular includes something very special in their show - the closing Grand Defile, which always brings a lump to the throat and a feeling of pride.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ Twyla Tharp is a kind of dance wizard – steps pour out of her like torrents in a waterfall.
An interview with Monstah Black on his latest project, HYPERBOLIC! - now in performance at Dixon Place, New York as part of the HOT! Festival.
★★✰✰✰ A psychology degree might have been helpful in analysing Hofesh Shechter’s first triple bill; here returning to Sadler’s Wells where it premiered, last September.