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Archive - November 2013
The triumph of the Nureyev collection at CNCS Moulins is to make the many facets of his profligately talented, maddening personality so vividly alive still.
Booty Looting isn't afraid of opening a rabbit-hole or two in its exposition of performance and visual art; almost everything in the show refers to itself in a never-ending loop that will either delight or madden its audiences.
The much admired Suzanne Farrell Ballet have just been performing at their Kennedy Center home in Washington - Oksana Khadarina reviews the Balanchine works (Mozartiana and Episodes) on Programme A...
Quite by accident I ended up seeing LINES Ballet’s fall season twice. A good thing I did, too.
This visit by the internationally acclaimed troupe met half of my high expectations – the dancers were as spectacular as ever.
The Royal Ballet’s autumn season triple bill offered very different ways of presenting bodies in space: anatomical studies in an architectural limbo (Chroma); flying figures in constant flux (The Human Seasons); a tribal community following ritual patterns (The Rite of Spring).
It’s a powerful piece of theatre, driven by music that expresses the hard-living, drug-fuelled romanticism of the spirits who inhabited the hotel...
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On Sunday, American Ballet Theatre’s two-week fall season draws to a close. By most measures, it’s been a success...
Richard Alston's devotion to Britten's music goes back 50 years, and for his programme at the Barbican Theatre he's made two new works to be shown alongside two from an earlier stage in his career.
ABT's run of Les Sylphides this season are different - after research, the company, under their musical director Ormsby Wilkins, have rediscovered a 1941 orchestration by Benjamin Britten. Marina Harss reveals all in conversation with Wilkins...
This is not Cherkaoui’s most successfully realised work but his affection and respect for tango shine through, and the dancers are a joy to watch.
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"A visit from Ultima Vez is something special" says Lise Smith interviewing its founder and choreographer, Wim Vandekeybus, about his latest project, 'booty Looting', a collaboration with photographer Danny Willems and which opens at London's Southbank next week - 12 November...
Throughout the Bach Partita, Tharp’s movement is technical, precise, and highly articulated. As with Balanchine, the bodies are always distinct, framed in space.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Not the least of Taylor’s genius shows in his choice of dancers. All are superb performers who are also quite handsome to look at. If I were asked to populate an alien world from scratch, I’d begin with the Paul Taylor Dance Company.
Christmas is nearly here and Staatsballett Berlin are celebrating early with a brand new Nutcracker. Margaret Willis visits Berlin for us...