IMHO, there is no better story-telling choreographer around today....
Author - Graham Watts
Canterna’s Romeo and Juliet is certainly different; and it won’t be to everyone’s taste, but – some quibbles aside – I enjoyed the energy and the entertainment.
The whole ensemble had a refreshing zest for performance ...Although perhaps lacking in theatrical drama...
Baltic Dance Theatre have just presented two Netherlands inspired nights of dance with local premieres by Izadora Weiss (director), Jiri Kylian and Patrick Delcroix. Graham Watts with a comprehensive report...
By the end, I felt our journey of discovery had involved driving down one of those long, straight, interminable cross-American highways, with nothing but the same prairieland in view.
Eight paragraphs of praise and I haven’t yet mentioned Alina Cojocaru! My advice to anyone yearning to see the special beauty of ballet is simple: take any chance you can to see Cojocaru dance.
These dudes are clearly the surfers of the ice skating world; athletes who are creating a new freestyle version of their discipline...
The biggest bonus in this all-Cuban entourage is the superb eight-strong band that plays live onstage ...throughout the show.
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 deconstruction of the art of creating choreography sets a new benchmark for a retrospective look at an artist’s body of work.
Strike! Dance Festival Ieva Kuniskis: He Lived Next Door Jack Webb: Inside Opulence London, Wilton’s Music Hall 25 September 2014 www.ievakuniskis.com www.jackwebbperformance.com wiltons.org.uk Wilton’s Strike! Dance Festival page It must follow that more is sometimes less. Jack Webb’s Inside Opulence was billed to last ‘(approx.): 30 minutes’ and we should have taken more note of the...
Inala is set to be a runaway success
Batley's Dracula is a towering presence, subtly portraying the torment between evil and desire; the seducer and the seduced.
...this show’s greatest sleight of hand is to have constructed a truly professional, West End-worthy production from the performances of young, amateur dancers, under the age of 19.
I feel that I now know what an end-of-pier seaside special looks like in Brazil.
This glitzy evening proved that the Central School of Ballet has friends in abundance (or perhaps that should be hyphenated to “a-bun-dance”) but the aim of this gala event was clearly to encourage a few more.
Transitions Dance Company is a finishing school that provides a special opportunity to contextualise their dance studies and training and this year’s ensemble demonstrated a strong range of capabilities across a wide spectrum of skill sets.
Graham Watts, visited the Natalia Sats Theatre in Moscow, earlier this year, to talk to both Liepa and Isaakyan about their new production of Le Coq d’Or.
I was finding it to be a consolation that the work would only last for 45 minutes and a fairly lacklustre reception from a far-from-full auditorium suggests that I wasn’t alone in welcoming the end.
Including a low-key pilot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2012, the 'Flash Mob' brand is now into its third iteration, and I must immediately confess to liking this show less than either of its predecessors.