★★★✰✰ The clue is in the title. Although there is a small section of partnered dance towards the end, this is about conjoined peculiarity...
Archive - October 2018
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Osipova is lethally orgasmic... Never has MacMilllan's choreography for the death duet seemed so astounding as in her account of it.
Scottish Ballet have just announced plans for their Fiftieth Anniversary in 2019, including three world premieres - we have the full press release and touch-base with CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson about the celebrations and what happens beyond...
★★★★✰ On the second night the program was offered, Mearns was stunning, but the remaining three pieces, by three different companies were, to varying degrees, engaging, although hers was a tough act to follow.
Thiago Soares and Lauren Cuthbertson cast. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ For those dance fans who are also music devotees, this bill is a must see.
★★★✰✰ It reminds you powerfully that the Chinese Cultural Revolution has a living legacy...
★★★★✰ Forsythe is surprising himself and his audience with new discoveries of what bodies and ballets can do.
★★★✰✰ There was a lot here to enjoy. This may have been a celebration of three decades in dance, but there was no nostalgia here...
The Merchants of Bollywood are back, this time with "Taj Express". Graham Watts on thin plots and a glittery parade of happiness. ★★★✰✰
Hauptaktion at London’s Collisions Festival 2018 – Examing cultural appropriation and Minstrel shows
Thoughtful report about thoughtful work that probes and presents how the dance of yesterday and today borrows and distorts the culture of others. Makes you think!
★★★★✰ At moments, I was ecstatically aware of the beauty of the body in motion.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ This is a sincere and deeply felt attempt to show us how history gets rewritten to demonise some and exalt others.
★★★✰✰ Both pieces are demanding and elicit some impressively stylish moments, though there’s a fair amount of unevenness...
★★★★✰ Tony Adigun’s smart street-dance reimagining of Dickens’s Oliver Twist switches the focus of the tale...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Big Dance Theater company, based in New York, set about turning Samuel Pepys priapic confessions into a dance theatre piece, mashing up past and present....