National Youth Dance Company – Used To Be Blonde – London
★★★★✰ The title is oblique, but the choreography is an explicit punch of intensity, fusing vigour and angularity with a velvety slinkiness.
Gallery – National Youth Dance Company in Sharon Eyal’s Used To Be Blonde
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Sadler’s Wells Elixir Festival – KnowBody II – London
★★★✰✰ 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.
National Youth Dance Company – Tarantiseismic – London
★★✰✰✰ Reviewing a youth dance company is always a tricky thing. These are not professional dancers although everything else about the production is a professional show.
Gallery – National Youth Dance Company/Damien Jalet: Tarantiseismic
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
National Youth Dance Company – In- Nocentes – London
★★★★✰ They say that the best cooks take the ingredients and do the least to them to create a magnificent meal, and that’s what Michael Keegan-Dolan has done…
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Yabin Studio & Eastman – Genesis 生长 – London
While other Cherkaoui collaborations have generally crossed boundaries to link contemporary movement with the borrowed style, in Genesis there appears to be a multiplicity of influences.
Dance at the Latitude Festival 2015 – Faraway Forest: A Weekend at Latitude
Dance at the Latitude Festival 2015 – Sara Veale with a full report…
Interview – Jane Hackett, Director of National Youth Dance Company
Sara Veale catches up with Jane Hackett, director of National Youth Dance Company, ahead of NYDC’s performance at Latitude Festival on 19 July.
Dance at Latitude Festival 2015 – Who’s Who
July has just arrived and with it comes Latitude, the annual music and arts festival at Henham Park in Southwold – you might know it as ‘the one with the techni-coloured sheep’…
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National Youth Dance Company and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – Frame[d] – London
Do catch it if you want to enjoy the energy and shared commitment of its young performers.
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Gallery – National Youth Dance Company in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Frame[d]
Gallery of pictures by Stephen Wright
Dance at the Latitude Festival 2014
For the past seven years, the festival’s organisers have been collaborating with Sadler’s Wells to curate a dance programme on the strikingly beautiful Waterfront Stage at the heart of the festival site…
Gallery – Dance at Latitude Festival 2014
Lise Smith with a gallery of pictures taken over the 3 days of Latitude festival. Features the following, in order of appearance: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Ballet Revolucion, Sonia Sabri Company, James Cousins Company, English National Ballet, Candoco Dance Company and National Youth Dance Company
Dance at Latitude 2014 – Spotlight on Candoco and Sonia Sabri
Latitude Festival opens next week (17th July) and features lots of interesting dance – Lise Smith catches up with 2 companies preparing their open air shows…
Now Closed… Win A Pair Of Tickets To Latitude Festival 2014!
The competition is now closed. The winning entry has been declared and the winner contacted and put in touch with Latitude Festival. Thanks to all who entered and better luck next time if you did not win! (A free to enter competition to win a free pair of adult tickets for the Latitude Festival…)
English National Ballet, Random Dance and National Youth Dance Company Top Latitude 2014 Dance Bill
Latitude, the summer festival for people who don’t like rolling around in the mud, is back in sunny Southwold for a ninth year…
National Youth Dance Company – The Rashomon Effect, Vertical Road – London
This programme exploits their open-hearted zest for dancing and gives them some meaty choreographic challenges.
2013 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
