The biggest bonus in this all-Cuban entourage is the superb eight-strong band that plays live onstage ...throughout the show.
Archive - October 2014
I should have known better. Going to a Wendy Houstoun gig with a pre-conceived notion of what to expect is indeed a pact with pointlessness.
This beginning, supremely theatrical, brought the mainly young audience, already excited and expectant, to shout and clap enthusiastically....
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson have contributed a number of articles to DanceTabs and before that ballet.co.uk. Their last piece, on ‘Jeux’ reaching its centenary in 2013, can be found here and includes links to other articles, either by them or about their work. The Lost Rite Millicent Hodson, Kenneth Archer, Shira Klasmer KMS Press ISBN 099 287 5803, paperback, 250 pages, £54...
The concept is simple: three dancers enter the stage in turn and perform sequences of minimal movement, stepping or crawling across the stage in slow motion.
This deconstruction of the art of creating choreography sets a new benchmark for a retrospective look at an artist’s body of work.
A new double bill has just been unveiled by Candoco Dance Company with work by Hetain Patel and Thomas Hauert...
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, is there a ballet choreographer working today who is more imaginative, more wholly himself, than Alexei Ratmansky?
Brazil’s oldest dance company is wearing its years well, judging by this latest double bill.
We catch up with Septime Webre, choreographer and artistic director of Washington Ballet. So what makes him get up in the morning? Oksana Khadarina finds out...
The double-bill 'Something Then', 'Something Now' focuses on Patel’s classical practice, and showcases the richness of bharatanatyam tradition in the UK.