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Woman SRSLY – Takeover: Wildlife in Strange Waters – London
★★★✰✰ Woman SRSLY’s feminist energy exploded all over the Place last Thursday. The foyer and bar area were transformed into a colourful pink fun-fair.
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5 Questions to Sophie Laplane – a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence – about her new work, Dextera
Sophie Laplane, former company dancer, is now a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence and her first main stage commission opens the companies 2019 season in Inverness on the 28 March, before touring to Glasgow, Aberdeen and Edinburgh. We catch up with her about the new work and what else she is up to…
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Ballet Black – Pendulum, Click!, Ingoma – London
★★★✰✰ It’s the spring and Ballet Black has just premiered its latest triple bill. It included new works by Sophie Laplane and Mthuthuzeli November, the former engagingly light and the latter movingly heartfelt…
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Vincent Dance Theatre – Virgin Territory Film Installation – Margate
★★★★✰ Vincent Dance Theatre’s visceral and timely response to how social media is wrecking our children, hypersexualising them and stealing their childhood co-opts the very technology that it warns us about.
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San Francisco Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty – San Francisco
★★★✰✰ The performance was thrilling …because it marked the Aurora debut of soloist Wona Park, whose Kitri debut in the season-opening Don Quixote got loads of buzz. At just 19, she dances with an ease beyond her years…
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Annette Page: Tribute to a Ballerina
This programme celebrated Annette Page’s career with the Royal Ballet and supported the Motor Neurone Disease Association. She died at the age of 84 of MND, a cruel disease for a former dancer and an articulate, witty woman…
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BalletBoyz – Them/Us – London
★★★★✰ There’s lots to savour in this burst of creative expression from the present crop of Boyz.
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Northern Ballet – Victoria (Marston premiere) – Leeds
★★★✰✰ Where the ballet takes off is when there are only two or three major characters on stage and then Marston clearly shows intentions and emotions and the dancing becomes rich and telling, clever and gorgeous.
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Various Artists – D.I.R.T. Festival, storm SURGE edition – San Francisco
★★★★✰ This year’s festival, titled storm SURGE …brought together eight local and visiting artists with connections to coastal and island communities that are on the front line of rising oceans.
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National Dance Company Wales – Awakening: Tundra, Afterimage, Revellers’ Mass – London
★★★✰✰ It’s quite a mixed evening. The standout item is the final piece, Revellers’ Mass by the company’s resident choreographer, Caroline Finn.
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Sarasota Ballet – Apparitions, Stars and Stripes – Sarasota
★★★★✰ As if an Ashton rarity weren’t reason enough to catch this program, there was also the presence of Marcelo Gomes, former much-admired principal dancer from American Ballet Theatre, to recommend it.
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Ultima Vez – Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour – London
★★✰✰✰ Ultima Vez’s latest show, a devised piece of dance-theatre that tries to explore the nature of faith and religion, …ends up about as awkward and unwieldy as its title.
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James Cousins Company – Epilogues bill of duets – London
★★★★✰ Cousins and company both surprise and stir us.
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ODC/Dance – World’s on Fire (premiere) – San Francisco
★★★✰✰ The music was striking. And ODC’s company dancers shone. Though as an overall experience, I would describe Fire as mixed.
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Royal Ballet – Frankenstein – London
★★✰✰✰ Could Liam Scarlett’s monstrous Frankenstein be fixed with more, better surgery? Evidently not, in this revival, three years after its creation.
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Cathy Marston on her new work for Northern Ballet, Victoria, the creative process and more…
Marston has been working at Northern Ballet creating Victoria for the company (premiere this month) and we wanted to find out more, also catch up on other commissions and discuss just how she works creatively and manages to juggle it all so effortlessly…
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March 1, 2019Gallery – UK National Dance Awards 2018
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February 26, 2019
Pictures Feature – BalletBoyz latest double bill, Them/Us, in the studio & on tour
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February 24, 2019
Gallery – Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch in Bon Voyage, Bob…
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February 15, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet’s Marianela Nuñez & Vadim Muntagirov in Don Quixote
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February 9, 2019
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February 1, 2019
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January 18, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet in Asphodel Meadows and The Two Pigeons
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December 20, 2018
Gallery – Royal Ballet in Les Patineurs, Winter Dreams and The Concert
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December 13, 2018
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November 29, 2018
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March 20, 2019Woman SRSLY – Takeover: Wildlife in Strange Waters – London
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March 19, 2019
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March 19, 2019
Vincent Dance Theatre – Virgin Territory Film Installation – Margate
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March 19, 2019
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March 14, 2019
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March 13, 2019
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March 13, 2019
Various Artists – D.I.R.T. Festival, storm SURGE edition – San Francisco
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March 11, 2019
National Dance Company Wales – Awakening: Tundra, Afterimage, Revellers’ Mass – London
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March 11, 2019
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March 11, 2019
Ultima Vez – Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour – London
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March 20, 20195 Questions to Sophie Laplane – a Scottish Ballet Artist in Residence – about her new work, Dextera
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March 8, 2019
Cathy Marston on her new work for Northern Ballet, Victoria, the creative process and more…
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March 5, 2019
5 Questions to Pepperland designer Elizabeth Kurtzman about collaborating with Mark Morris
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February 28, 2019
5 Questions to Choreographer James Cousins about his new Touring Programme of Duets – Epilogues
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February 16, 2019
Mark Morris, Choreographer and Director, Spices up Sgt Pepper
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February 5, 2019
Interview: Thinking About Petipa – A Conversation with Alexei Ratmansky
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November 10, 2018
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November 2, 2018
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November 1, 2018
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October 27, 2018
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March 18, 2019Annette Page: Tribute to a Ballerina
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February 26, 2019
Pictures Feature – BalletBoyz latest double bill, Them/Us, in the studio & on tour
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December 24, 2018
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December 23, 2018
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December 13, 2018
Close up with Darcey Bussell and Ashton’s Sylvia at the Royal Opera House Cinema Festival
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October 5, 2018
Hauptaktion at London’s Collisions Festival 2018 – Examing cultural appropriation and Minstrel shows
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September 30, 2018
World Ballet Day, 2 October 2018 – an insight into what The Royal Ballet will be doing
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September 11, 2018
Voguing at the Southbank’s Ulimited festival – “Vogue: The Unlimited House of Krip”
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June 16, 2018
2018 English National Ballet Emerging Dancer Competition – performance and results
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June 2, 2018
