English National Ballet – Choreographics – A Letter to… – London
I hope ENB do lots more short and sweet choreographic initiatives to real audiences. Well done all, great to have a go – now do more.
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
English National Ballet – New Choreographers and New Music – Choreographics, A Letter To…
English National Ballet dancers turn choreographers when five of them get a chance to create new works in collaboration with students from the Royal College of Music…
Place Prize 2012/13 – works by Rick Nodine, Riccardo Buscarini, Eva Recacha, h2dance – London
It’s amazing just how disparate the dance is that can make it to the Place Prize finals where 200 hopefuls were whittled down to 16 and now to 4 in the nightly finals shows which run through to the 27th April when the winner is chosen.
Tavaziva Dance – Greed – London
Despite the title, Bawren Tavaziva’s latest work is not so much about Greed as it is about the full house of deadly sins (bestial lust and envy being especially to the fore).
Scottish Dance Theatre – Second Coming, Winter Again – London
There is a mysterious exoticism in Scottish Dance Theatre’s delivery of work by two innovative choreographers (one hails from LA, the other from Norway) whose work is largely unknown in the UK.
Gallery – 2012 UK National Dance Awards
Pictures by Dave Morgan – more will be added over the next 24 hours
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…
The Place presents – Fresh – London
People talk about wanting to get new and younger audiences in for dance and this was really a great way of achieving it.
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.
Lost Dog – It Needs Horses, Home for Broken Turns – London
This is a work that is dark and deep, like a bottomless black pool requiring forensic exploration.
Richard Alston Dance Company – Shimmer, Madcap, Darknesse Visible, Isthmus – London
Alston is going to develop Isthmus, thank goodness, as soon as he has the opportunity – it’s a stunner.
Place Prize for Dance – Semi-Finals with 16 works – London
Nothing in contemporary dance is more guaranteed to provoke controversy than the Place Prize, now returning for its fifth edition, organised by the excellent team at The Place…
Place Prize for Dance 2012/13 – Finalists Announced
And the four Finalists are: h2dance (Hannah Gillgren and Heidi Rustgaard), Riccardo Buscarini, Rick Nodine, Eva Recacha. Congrats to all, more details in the press release.
John Percival, 1927 – 2012: A personal appreciation
It’s a fortunate dance-goer who can discover a critic whose opinions she can trust – doubly fortunate if it’s a critic who sees and reports on more performances than any of the rest. It’s more than fifty years since I first found that I was turning to John Percival’s reviews before anyone else’s…
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.
Interview: Bob Lockyer at 70, Mr Dance when the BBC did dance
In a life at the BBC the director, Bob Lockyer, was an outstanding champion of dance for the camera. Now 70, he is still indefatigable in his enthusiasms
