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MuzArts – Radio & Juliet, Faun, McGregor + Mugler – London
★★✰✰✰ There was certainly some spectacle and some good dancing, and not just from the big stars. However, the most heavily promoted piece and world premiere was an excruciating fifteen minutes of disappointment…
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Film: Kes Reimagined, by Jonathan Watkins
★★★★✰ In Watkins’ choreography and MacGibbon’s mastery of camera angles and close-ups the narrative is crystal clear.
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Svetlana Zakharova – Modanse: Gabrielle Chanel, Come un Respiro – London
★★★✰✰ Stunning images of Bolshoi ballerina Svetlana Zakahrova dressed as Coco Chanel whetted the appetite for the London Premiere of her latest how, Modanse.
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Dormeshia – And Still You Must Swing – New York
★★★★✰ Some have called Dormeshia the greatest tapper of her generation. I’m wary of such titles, but what I can say is that she is a dancer of enormous sophistication, finesse, variety, and subtlety.
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Richard Alston Dance Company – Alston at Home – London
★★★★✰ Richard Alston’s title for his company’s last tour before it closes in 2020 is Final Edition. The autumn run ended with four performances at The Place, in a programme aptly called Alston At Home.
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Madhavi Mudgal – Vistar – London
★★★✰✰ There is a mannered and refined gentility in the movement style; bodies and arms beautifully shaped with the eloquent symmetry of body bends…
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Royal Ballet – Coppélia – London
★★★★✰ The dancing is so enjoyable, the comedy so appealing, that any flaws in the story telling are easily overlooked.
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Mavin Khoo & Temple of Fine Arts – unnamed dance inspired by the Ramayana – London
★★★✰✰ Mavin Khoo doesn’t appear on stage here: the work has been made on dancers from the Temple of Fine Arts Inner Space Dance, based in Malaysia.
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Gallery – Francesca Hayward and Gary Avis in a scene from the Royal Ballet’s Coppélia
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Paul Taylor American Modern Dance – Gala including new Kyle Abraham – New York
★★★★✰ As a special one-off, Michael Trusnovec, now a guest artist, danced the solo from George Balanchine’s spiky and ascetic Episodes which he made for Paul Taylor in 1959.
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Ballet du Rhin – Les Beaux Dormants – London
Le Ballet de L’Opéra national du Rhin – Ballet du Rhin Les Beaux dormants (The Sleeping Beauties) ★★★✰✰ London, Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, 21 November 2019 Gallery of pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Acosta Danza – Evolution: Rooster, Faun, Satori & Paysage, Soudain, la nuit – London
★★★★✰ It’s thrilling to see the building confidence of Carlos Acosta’s Cuban-based dance company. There’s a sense of cohesion, shared purpose and a unique identity drawn from a vibrant range of influences.
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December 1, 2019Gallery – Francesca Hayward and Gary Avis in a scene from the Royal Ballet’s Coppélia
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November 25, 2019
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November 16, 2019
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November 11, 2019
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November 4, 2019
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October 28, 2019
Gallery – CCN Ballet de Lorraine in For Four Walls (part of Dance Umbrella)
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October 24, 2019
Gallery – Georgia Vardarou’s Why should it be more desirable for green fire balls to exist than not?
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October 22, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet in Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act III
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October 12, 2019
Gallery – Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft (part of Dance Umbrella)
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October 12, 2019
Gallery – The Urban Playground Team in Zoo Humans (Dance Umbrella)
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December 11, 2019Jamila Johnson-Small and guests – Heavy Handed We Crush the Moment – London
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December 10, 2019
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December 10, 2019
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December 9, 2019
Svetlana Zakharova – Modanse: Gabrielle Chanel, Come un Respiro – London
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December 8, 2019
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December 7, 2019
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December 6, 2019
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December 5, 2019
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December 4, 2019
Mavin Khoo & Temple of Fine Arts – unnamed dance inspired by the Ramayana – London
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November 27, 2019
Paul Taylor American Modern Dance – Gala including new Kyle Abraham – New York
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November 3, 2019Interview – Jonathan Watkins and his new film ‘Kes Reimagined’ – a Kes for Today
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October 23, 2019
Interview: Arthur Pita on choreographing “Alice in Californiland” for AXIS Dance Company
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October 21, 2019
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October 1, 2019
5 Questions to Sarah Lamb, Royal Ballet Principal, about dancing Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon…
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September 26, 2019
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July 29, 2019
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July 28, 2019
Interview – Claire Cunningham and her new Elvis inspired work “Thank You Very Much”
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July 10, 2019
5 Questions to Iain Mackay, Director of Yorkshire Ballet Seminars
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June 12, 2019
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June 4, 2019
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November 12, 2019Feature – Ashton Rediscovered Masterclass: Foyer de danse and the Le Papillon solo
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October 17, 2019
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August 20, 2019
Scottish Ballet’s Crucible – From scrap board to stage, a dancers perspective
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July 28, 2019
Book – Dancing Under The Southern Skies: A History of Ballet in Australia – by Valerie Lawson
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July 27, 2019
Birmingham’s DanceXchange Launches Ambitious Plans to Support New Artists
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July 12, 2019
The Bolshoi Ballet in London, Summer 2019 – All you need to know (and more!)
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July 10, 2019
ROH Young Talent Festival Symposium on Exposure, Access and Opportunity
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June 20, 2019
Mari – a film by Georgia Parris, Bobbi Jene Smith and Maxine Doyle
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June 18, 2019
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June 10, 2019
