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Oona Doherty – Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer – London
★★★★★ The dance artist Oona Doherty was transplanted to Belfast from London aged ten, and there was the gaze of a curious outsider about Hard to Be Soft.
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New York City Ballet – Serenade, Summerspace, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 – New York
★★★★✰ On the penultimate day of the fall season, I managed to catch a performance of New York City Ballet’s revival of Merce Cunningham’s Summerspace. The 1958 piece, which had its City Ballet premiere in 1966, was last performed here in 2000.
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Royal Ballet – Merce Cunningham celebration: Cross Currents, Monotones II, Everyone Keeps Me – London
★★★★★ Quite some achievement by Pam Tanowitz, to have followed treasured works by Cunningham and Ashton with one that pays homage to both, yet stands on its own as her distinctive tapestry of dance.
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Mariinsky Ballet – Paquita – Washington
★★★✰✰ This three-act three-hour-long Paquita is a brainchild of Smekalov, who is a second soloist with the company. He wrote his own libretto, largely borrowing from the Cervantes novella La Gitanilla…
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Danse Élargie: Dance Expanded – London
★★✰✰✰ Seven international companies appeared on the Sadler’s Wells main stage, all of whom are prize winners of the bi-annual international competition Danse Élargie: Dance Expanded – the brain wave of Boris Charmatz and director Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota…
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William Forsythe – A Quiet Evening of Dance – New York
★★★✰✰ The fascination with ballet is strong in Forsythe. After years of creating a form of dance theater in Germany, he has returned to his classical roots with a renewed energy.
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Gallery – Oona Doherty’s Hard to Be Soft (part of Dance Umbrella)
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Gisele Vienne – Crowd – London
★★★★✰ You have to marvel at the skill and precision of the 15 dancers in Crowd, the creation of the Franco-Austrian choreographer Gisele Vienne and the opening show of this year’s Dance Umbrella festival.
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Gallery – The Urban Playground Team in Zoo Humans (Dance Umbrella)
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Shantala Shivalingappa – Akasha – New York
★★★★✰ Everything in Shivalingappa’s style emphasizes clarity, shape, and intention. … a very satisfying evening of dance.
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Gallery – Royal Ballet Merce Cunningham celebration – works by Cunningham, Ashton and Pam Tanowitz
Featuring works by Merce Cunningham, Frederick Ashton and Pam Tanowitz. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
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Alonzo King LINES Ballet – The Personal Element, Azoth – San Francisco
★★★★✰ A double-bill of compelling contemporary movement, the centerpiece of the performance was Azoth, a new collaboration between Artistic Director Alonzo King, tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and composer/pianist Jason Moran.
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Dada Masilo – Giselle – London
★★★★✰ Masilo and company unpack this famous story of a wronged woman, establishing a refreshingly black, South African and feminist perspective.
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October 12, 2019Gallery – 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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October 10, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet Merce Cunningham celebration – works by Cunningham, Ashton and Pam Tanowitz
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September 19, 2019
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September 8, 2019
Gallery – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Lazarus and EN
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August 16, 2019
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August 8, 2019
Gallery – Bolshoi Ballet in The Bright Stream (dress rehearsal)
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August 3, 2019
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June 11, 2019
Gallery – Royal Ballet in The Firebird, A Month in the Country, Symphony in C
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June 9, 2019
Gallery – San Francisco Ballet in Your Flesh Shall Be a Great Poem and Anima Animus
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October 16, 2019Oona Doherty – Hard to Be Soft: A Belfast Prayer – London
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October 14, 2019
New York City Ballet – Serenade, Summerspace, Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 – New York
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October 14, 2019
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October 13, 2019
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October 13, 2019
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October 13, 2019
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October 12, 2019
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October 12, 2019
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October 8, 2019
Alonzo King LINES Ballet – The Personal Element, Azoth – San Francisco
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October 7, 2019
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October 1, 20195 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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May 18, 2019
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May 12, 2019
Catching up with Morgann Runacre-Temple – work for Scottish Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and more
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May 7, 2019
5 Questions to Yolande Yorke-Edgell of Yorke Dance Project on celebrating their 20th anniversary
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August 20, 2019Scottish 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
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May 10, 2019
Carlos Acosta splendidly summed up as he collects his Critics’ Circle Services to the Arts award
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May 5, 2019
