'Dive', by Sophie Laplane for Scottish Ballet, will premiere on Thursday 29 April to celebrate International Dance Day. For a heads-up we talked to Laplane about the new short film, co-created with James Bonas and directed by Oscar Sansom.
Archive - April 2021
★★★✰✰ Putting together a new company and getting new work made for it is commendably ambitious at the best of times. Joseph Toonga and his collaborators can feel proud, as can the dancers: they were articulate, enthusiastic, committed and hard working.
The Jacob’s Pillow website contains an important and incredibly diverse dance archive under the banner "Dance Interactive" - Susanna Sloat introduces an important resource and calls out many video gems...
★★★★★ Mark Morris Dance Group dancers in Words - a Works & Process Pop Up Performance at the Guggenheim Museum. ★★★✰✰ Christine Jones, Steven Hoggett and David Byrne's SOCIAL! the social distance dance club - at the Park Avenue Armory.
★★★★★ This was a triumph of ingenuity and good humour from Rambert - an exhilarating live streamed delight.
★★★✰✰ It’s a bit of a bashed-together stream, with a shiny new, COVID-19 era recording of Emeralds, made in January of this year, teamed up with a Rubies from 2016, and Diamonds from 2017...
Diana Vishneva's push for the new has continued through the Covid crisis and we talk to her about her latest project, Imprint in Motion. It's an amalgam of dance, music, video, and fine arts, created and filmed during lockdown in the halls of Moscow’s Pushkin Museum...
★★★★★ Within the four walls of the Joyce Theater, magic has been brewing. We, the public, only get to see it in virtual form, but the magic is real. The creator of spells is the tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel...
The inaugural performance of the Just Us Hip Hop Apprentice Co. is livestreamed from the main stage at DanceEast on Friday 16 April. A good time to have a word with Joseph Toonga about an important initiative...
★★★★✰ The latest offering from New York City Ballet, by Kyle Abraham, is a particularly handsome, intelligent, and well-filmed example of the (made and streamed under Covid) genre.
★★★★★ This collaboration between choreographer William Forsythe and New York City Ballet dancer Tiler Peck is the best-conceived dance film streamed during current Covid-19 constraints.
★★★✰✰ The pandemic meant that the company’s home theatre will have to wait its turn before hosting The Three Sections, which instead premiered on a triangle of Zoom screens...