Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Archive - October 2017
★★★✰✰ In between the speeches and the short films came the dancing. The main attraction was the new Ratmansky work, Songs of Bukovina...
Answer: "Do it!" Question: "What advice would you give to a young dancer who aspires to choreograph?"
★★✰✰✰ ...an intriguing idea inflated into unwieldy modern dance-theatre.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Liz Lerman is an enlightened performer, writer, educator and speaker. A tiny woman with a quietly formidable presence, her lecture was an inspirational manifesto for dance and life.
★★★✰✰ I caught all four new works: an expanded version of Michelle Dorrance’s Myelination, Kyle Abraham’s Drive, the Sara Mearns and Honji Want collaboration No. 1, and Mark Morris’s solo Twelve of ‘em for David Hallberg.
★★★★✰ Absolutely fascinating... Scottish Ballet should feel very proud of celebrating MacMillan in such a thoughtful way...
Graham Watts catches up with the well connected Avatâra Ayuso who has just been appointed Associate Artist at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance...
★★★✰✰ Binet’s aspiration is that audiences should see beautifully trained dancers in a spiritual light, embodying Lawren Harris’s quest for the divine in nature.
★★✰✰✰ The best moments in The Toad Knew are comic, but there aren’t enough of them. Old-fashioned clowning is sprinkled throughout the production...
★★★★★ The words “90 minutes, no interval” generally fill me with dread.
★★★★✰ ...the line between performer and viewer hovers in a delicious state of ambiguity, steeped in porousness.
★★★★✰ There has to be something in Canada’s water, especially in the beautiful city of Québec...
★★★✰✰ Origami is a work for a solo performer and a shipping container which slowly unfolds and reconfigures itself over forty minutes.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt’s all-male company are on sparkling form right now.
Photographed at Printworks. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ It was a pleasure to see this company in such a smart and wide-ranging program. It was even more rewarding to see the Washington Ballet dancers masterly navigating the numerous challenges...
Photographed at Battersea Power Station. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...