★★★✰✰ Big Dance Theater company, based in New York, set about turning Samuel Pepys priapic confessions into a dance theatre piece, mashing up past and present....
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★★★★★ What makes the show so seductive is the smooth and slick integration of visual effects with movement.
★★★★✰ Wrapping up Dance Umbrella, "Shoreditch Takeover" was a celebration of cross-disciplinary work. It featured two dance works, poetry and a film, not to mention a DJ...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ How many ways can you hear the same piece of music? This inspired programme by Lyon Opera Ballet suggested, with elegant simplicity, that there are as many ways to hear something as there are people to hear it.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Liz Lerman is an enlightened performer, writer, educator and speaker. A tiny woman with a quietly formidable presence, her lecture was an inspirational manifesto for dance and life.
★★★★★ The words “90 minutes, no interval” generally fill me with dread.
★★★✰✰ Origami is a work for a solo performer and a shipping container which slowly unfolds and reconfigures itself over forty minutes.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Photographed at Battersea Power Station. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Mats Ek’s "Axe" could be the beginning to a new Scandi Noir TV series. There is a man, an axe, a huge pile of wood that he starts to chop with repressed intensity and a visibly distressed wife. It doesn’t look like it will end well.
★★★★✰ Dance Umbrella brings to The Place an unusually thoughtful and touching work. In Use My Body While It’s Still Young, Norwegian choreographer Hege Haagenrud takes a cool and unflinching look at the unfashionable subject of ageing...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ This ideal of taking the traditional forms of Kathak and placing the music and movement within a contemporary context gives Inter_rupted its rationale.
★★★★✰ Jérôme Bel’s Gala turns the performer/spectator dynamic and the act of performance itself, inside-out...
★★★✰✰ Despite my reservations about joining in, this show was a lot of fun to watch; and it was clearly loads of joy for the young people – whatever their actual age – to take part in.
Part of Dance Umbrella 2016. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Part of Dance Umbrella 2016. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ 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...