UK National Choreographers’ Conference 2013
UK National Choreographers’ Conference 2013 – Laura Dodge with a report on an important event in what must sometimes feel like the worlds loneliest profession…
English National Ballet – Ecstasy and Death bill – London
Rojo has declared that her ambition as artistic director of ENB is to make audiences hold their breath. I certainly did during Le Jeune Homme et la Mort…
Mikhailovsky Ballet – Without Words, Nunc Dimittis, Prelude – London
There were wonderful performances by Ekaterina Borchenko and Leonid Sarafanov – dancers you would like to see a lot more of. But three works by the same choreographer was too much of the same dish on the menu.
Hubert Essakow – Flow – London
Essakow has continued to evolve as a choreographer, thanks to his association with The Print Room. Its high standards of presentation attract first-rate collaborators and performers, and by including spoken and projected words, Flow attracts non-dance-specialist audiences.
2012 UK National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle announced the winners of the 13th National Dance Awards at The Place on 28th January 2013.
2012 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Wayne Mcgregor | Random Dance – Hertz, Alpha Episodes, Life’s Witness – London
McGregor’s influence is visible across the programme, not so much in the movement style but in the extreme formal abstraction of the work. A little form can go a long way…
2012 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle announced the nominations for the 13th National Dance Awards at a reception held at The Place on 9th November 2012. The winners will be announced 28th January 2013.
Rambert Dance Company – Labyrinth of Love, Roses, Dutiful Ducks, Sounddance – London
All up ‘Labyrinth of Love’ is a wonderful creative endeavour, a great looker, but an extra dash of audience accessibility is needed. We go “Wow”, rather than “Wow, I really loved what that had to say”
Film – Love Tomorrow – Raindance Film Festival winner
There is no attempt to make this a ‘ballet’ film with all the strange rituals and physical training normally attached to the art. There are short dance sequences: a bit of salsa in a Cuban bar…
Rambert Dance Company Celebrates New Home with Time Capsule
It’s finally happening: Rambert Dance company’s new headquarters on the South Bank is under way, its foundations well and truly sunk. Before the next phase of building goes ahead above ground, a time capsule in a stainless steel tube was buried in concrete
Interview: Marguerite Donlon – Choreographer and Director, Donlon Dance Company
The Director of her own company at the Saarbrucken Opera House, she is in London to choreograph a new work, Labyrinth of Love, for Rambert Dance Company, the centrepiece of their autumn tour…
Rambert Dance Company – Hush, Monolith, Faune, What Wild Ecstasy – Hong Kong
The choice of programme was something of a curate’s egg – disappointingly so in view of the company’s rich repertoire – but two out of the four works were excellent and the dancing was spectacular.
An Intimate Evening with Anna Pavlova – London
The compere of the evening was Anthony Dowell, in fine voice. He spoke the narration, enacted several of the characters and gallantly danced the ‘Fred step’ from Pavlova’s ‘Gavotte’ with Ursula Hageli as Anna.
Danza Contemporanea de Cuba – Sombrisa, Carmen?! and Mambo 3XXI – London
The dancers of Danza Contemporánea de Cuba are a fabulously talented bunch and it’s a pleasure to see them back at Sadler’s Wells. It would be even more of a pleasure if all the choreography in their programme was the same quality as the dancing.
Rambert Dance Company – What Wild Ecstasy, SUB, Faun, Art of Touch – London
Rambert… offers a mix of new commissions with rarely-seen work from their archives. Some items had much more impact than others, though not necessarily the ones you might imagine from the programme.
Gallery – Rambert Dance Company in L’après-midi d’un faune and What Wild Ecstasy
27 Pictures by Dave Morgan
The Place Prize 2012/13 – Dance Commissions Announced
The 16 entrants competing for The Place Prize for dance, sponsored by Bloomberg, have been awarded a total commission fund of £100,000.
