Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
ZooNation – The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party – London
★★★★✰ ZooNation’s “The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party” has come a long way as a thoughtful Royal Opera House alternative to the Royal Ballet’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”.
Memorable Performances of 2016 – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year…
Akram Khan Company – Until the Lions – London
Until the Lions is a creation unlike any other – a modern commentary, without words, on a fragment of a three-thousand-year-old epic.
Hofesh Shechter Company – Sun – London
There is surely something excellent lurking within this work, the intent of which I have failed to perceive, but I will just have to wait for The Choreographer’s next Cut to get it.
Hofesh Shechter Company — Uprising & The Art of Not Looking Back – London
Each revisiting seems to offer up more than the sum of its parts, giving these former works a new and exciting lease of life
