★★★✰✰ One of this recurring festival’s strongest selling selling points is the serendipity of its pairings. You pay $15 and get a grab-bag of dance in return. You’re bound to like something.
Archive - September 2016
Yuhui Choe and Valentino Zucchetti cast. Gallery by Dave Morgan.
Scottish Ballet's Autumn 2016 double bill features a world premiere, "Sibilo", by company dancer and choreographer Sophie Laplane - her first main stage commission. So what does "Sibilo" mean? - read on to find out that and more...
Tamsin’s decision to commission all three works from women follows 2Faced’s launch of The BENCH – a project specifically aimed at providing opportunities for female choreographers....
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Divertimento’s aura still shines; you want to see it again, to figure out its fluid, almost magical transitions. It’s a shame it will only be performed four times this season; it takes more than that for the audience, and the dancers, to really get to know it.
Beijing based TAO Dance Theater are returning to London in early October with a double bill including their latest work "8". A company with a very different perspective on dance performance we wanted to know more from their director - Tao Ye.
★★★✰✰ The pattern is set: the company commissions works from three or four choreographers, often quite young, and pairs them with prominent designers. The works are short, and are introduced by filmlets...
★★✰✰✰ There are times when you wonder if bones have been broken, or organs perforated. On the whole however, the hour and a half work is largely characterised by the violent, repetitive and neurotic gestures.
★★★★✰ Motel is a gem... An award-winning company in great creative form.
★★★★✰ I saw Programme C at Sadler's Wells and like practically everybody else, have to rave about the dancers.
★★★✰✰ All up, I much liked the dance I saw for being so fluid, boldly physical and yet also sensual and beautifully rendered. There's a quiet strength to all of it.
★★★★✰ Revelations is always a joy, however often one sees it. Ailey’s choreography, influenced by his mentor, Lester Horton, and Martha Graham, is a reminder of how potent that modern dance technique could be.
David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, is a prolific choreographer and just about to unveil his latest full evening work - The Tempest. Graham Watts went to talk to him about a work, that after 30 years of consideration, has found its time and proper custom score...
★★★✰✰ I was eager to see American Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty, mounted by Alexei Ratmansky last year, because of the enthusiastic reviews it has received in the United States. The Paris premiere, however, met with muted acclaim...
★★★✰✰ Even after his death, Vaslav Nijinsky suffered from the power and control of others...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ "I'm utterly seduced by the richness of dance and dancers moving with passion and meaning so close too."
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
His is an insider’s account, complete with waspish comments and cameos of the famous people he encountered...