★★★✰✰ One can only marvel at the flowing control of these excellent dancers and the simple beauty and purity of the dance they presented.
Author - Graham Watts
Dance Writer/Critic. Member of the Critics' Circle, Chairman of the Dance Section and National Dance Awards Committee. Writes for leading dance magazines & websites - in UK, Europe, USA, Japan & cyberspace. Graham is based in London.
jasminvardimon.com Full details of Pinocchio tour The Jasmin Vardimon Company has built up a remarkable repertoire of physical theatre and contemporary dance, since the company was founded, almost 20 years’ ago. The principal author of all these works, whose name the company bears, was born in Israel but has been based in the UK, since 1995. Vardimon has been an Associate Artist of Sadler’s Wells...
★★★★✰ This is the largest production yet mounted by Rambert - celebrating its 90th Anniversary, this year - accounting for over 110 performers, including 70 musicians and singers.
★★★✰✰ Malgorzata Dzierzon, Patricia Okenwa and Alexander Whitley are all at different stages of their emergence as choreographers. Each of them has progressed with the active support of Rambert’s choreographic development programme...
★★★✰✰ Our rapidly changing world lies at the heart of Charlotte Vincent’s Virgin Territory, which concentrates all its attention on the sexualisation of children; by society, by predators, by parents and ...by themselves.
★★★✰✰ This ideal of taking the traditional forms of Kathak and placing the music and movement within a contemporary context gives Inter_rupted its rationale.
★★★★✰ Jérôme Bel’s Gala turns the performer/spectator dynamic and the act of performance itself, inside-out...
★★★★★ ...put together, over two very different performances - one highly comedic, the other, much more serious – all of this imagery, profound drama, great singing, hilarious comedy and so much more, is easily enough to justify my very first five star-rating of 2016.
★★★✰✰ Despite my reservations about joining in, this show was a lot of fun to watch; and it was clearly loads of joy for the young people – whatever their actual age – to take part in.
5 Questions to Erik Kaiel on his choreography and works for Arch8 as part of Dance Umbrella 2016...
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...
After a successful season of Patrick de Bana’s Jane Eyre, back in 2013, Shanghai Ballet returns to the London Coliseum with the same choreographer’s Echoes of Eternity - we catch up with the stars of it - Wu Husheng and Qi Bingxue.
5 Questions to Emio Greco, choreographer and director of Ballet National de Marseille (with Pieter C. Scholten) on their "Body.Dance.Nation.City" which is being presented at London's Southbank Centre later this week - 5-6 August 2016
★★★★✰ Vega has assembled an impressive team for the first leg of her new dance company’s journey. However, she is the talisman throughout.
★★✰✰✰ A psychology degree might have been helpful in analysing Hofesh Shechter’s first triple bill; here returning to Sadler’s Wells where it premiered, last September.
★★★✰✰ What is different is the profound impact of Weiss’s choreography over this sixty-minute piece. Her movement is always busy and intensely musical but generally it is a means to an end...
★★★✰✰ De Bana's choreography was especially effective in the group scenes and not least in the descriptive expression of the organised chaos of warfare...
★★★★✰ Having missed the opening night of the BalletBoyz tour, at Sadler’s Wells, a few weeks ago, I caught up with it, just three bus stops away from my home...
★★★★✰ The centrepiece of this richly diverse programme was a dance puzzle, perhaps broadly equivalent to a game of three-dimensional chess.
Well known in North America and her native Australia Lucy Guerin is starting to do more in the UK and Europe and this week unveils Tomorrow, her new work for Rambert...