Half the pleasure of watching Sacred Monsters on this, its final tour, is of course enjoying the penultimate opportunity to watch the ultimate ballerina of our age take the stage.
Author - Lise Smith
...it’s only a rehearsal first appeared over a decade ago and has since become Ina Christel Johannessen’s international calling card...
Finnish choreographer Maija Hirvanen has created a very arresting seven-minute solo for the limber and watchable Andrius Katinas, and...
The concept is simple: three dancers enter the stage in turn and perform sequences of minimal movement, stepping or crawling across the stage in slow motion.
The double-bill 'Something Then', 'Something Now' focuses on Patel’s classical practice, and showcases the richness of bharatanatyam tradition in the UK.
Ek’s choreography, for both groups and individuals, is animated and detailed.
The Artificial Nature Project extends the Ingvartsen’s curiosity about choreographing materials, this time using seven dancers to animate a vast quantity of silver tinsel slices.
For the past seven years, the festival’s organisers have been collaborating with Sadler’s Wells to curate a dance programme on the strikingly beautiful Waterfront Stage at the heart of the festival site...
Lise Smith with a gallery of pictures taken over the 3 days of Latitude festival. Features the following, in order of appearance: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Ballet Revolucion, Sonia Sabri Company, James Cousins Company, English National Ballet, Candoco Dance Company and National Youth Dance Company
Latitude Festival opens next week (17th July) and features lots of interesting dance - Lise Smith catches up with 2 companies preparing their open air shows...
The competition is now closed. The winning entry has been declared and the winner contacted and put in touch with Latitude Festival. Thanks to all who entered and better luck next time if you did not win! (A free to enter competition to win a free pair of adult tickets for the Latitude Festival...)
Dust off your spin jacket, dig out your favourite fitted cap and put on some fresh kicks - it's time for Sadler's Wells' annual festival of all things hip hop, Breakin' Convention. Now in its 11th year...
Latitude, the summer festival for people who don’t like rolling around in the mud, is back in sunny Southwold for a ninth year...
The reality is that the work's central premise – that we are all irredeemably bad at understanding or respecting one another – seems to have greater resonance today than at any point since the bad old days...
Cloud Gate's lotuses set the scene for a lengthy work which is meditative, poetic and often beautiful to look at.
The highlight of the evening is Claes’ own piece, Is My Whining Winding You Up? Three female friends – portrayed by Claes, Andrea Queens and Natalie Baylie – meet for coffee and to unburden themselves
Probe is a genuinely interesting company that has produced delicate, moving and exciting work elsewhere. This piece is sadly none of those things.
The production has been touring since 2006, and will probably welcome near-full houses again on this run. I’m left with an overwhelming sense of an opportunity missed, however...
Where Cheap Lecture seemed content to dispense casual and unpretentious pearls of wisdom in rhythmic form (“things made with effort sometimes only show effort”), Rebelling Against Limits seems shot-through with a minor angst...
I’m not ashamed to admit to a tear in my eye at the final curtain...