
5 Questions to Didy Veldman – on forming and touring her new company, Umanoove
Choreographer Didy Veldman has just formed her own company – Umanoove – and is off touring her latest work, called “The Happiness Project”. Time for a brief 5 questions interview we thought…

Nitin Sawhney with special guests Sebastien Ramirez and Honji Wang – Concert – London
★★★★✰ It’d be a misnomer to call the evening a dance show – I was hoping Wang Ramirez would have more stage time than they did …but it was a cohesive production in any case, with some bracing, if fleeting, choreography on offer.

Eastman / Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – Fractus V – London
★★★★✰ The work itself is a statement of faith that collaboration is better than confrontation. Each dancer has a powerful presence but Cherkaoui has forged a remarkable unity from these disparate elements…

Book – Peter Wright: Wrights and Wrongs – my life in dance
His is an insider’s account, complete with waspish comments and cameos of the famous people he encountered…

Emio Greco – Choreographer and Director on Ballet National de Marseille’s Body.Dance.Nation.City and more
5 Questions to Emio Greco, choreographer and director of Ballet National de Marseille (with Pieter C. Scholten) on their “Body.Dance.Nation.City” which is being presented at London’s Southbank Centre later this week – 5-6 August 2016

Ballet Hispanico – Flabbergast, Bury Me Standing, Club Havana – New York
★★★★✰ Anyone in need of resurrecting their libido need look no further than Ballet Hispanico’s 45th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater…

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – …como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si… – London
★★★✰✰ Like all Pina Bausch’s pieces based on her company’s residencies in different cities, this one (which translates as ‘like moss on a stone’), inspired by Chile, is tantalising in its references.

Gallery – Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in …como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…

Big Dance Theater – Big Dance: Short Form bill – New York
Every once in a while, an audience exits a theatre feeling deeply alive. Lit. Satisfied. Big Dance Theater’s anniversary show is programmed with the canny sensibilities of a master chef…

Phoenix Dance Theatre – Until.With / Out.Enough, Tearfall, Bloom – London
One essential factor in the current success of Phoenix is a cohort of excellent dancers…

H2DANCE – Staging Ages – London
Packed overfull with ideas, it’s a way of looking at how our behaviour changes over the years, while we continue to feel much the same inside.

Cas Public – Symphonie Dramatique – London
Blackburn has deconstructed the story of the play and the conventions of narrative dance. The only way to follow ‘the one-hour’s traffic of the stage’ is through video captions and quotations…

Philippe Decouflé Company DCA – Contact – London
It’s undoubtedly fun in Decouflé’s world… but you do start to wish someone would hold your hand through it for a while.

Sasha Waltz & Guests – d’avant – London
…d’avant is the collaborative work of four dancers-singers-creators: Sidi Larbi Charkaoui, Damien Jalet, Luc Dunberry and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. Waltz herself is not credited in the programme…

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Ahnen – London
Expecting the unexpected comes with the territory of any production by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and so even unplanned events can seem to be part of the show.