★★★✰✰ Some of these pieces are more successful than others but the dancers seize the opportunities with relish...
Author - Lynette Halewood
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★★★★✰ The work itself is a statement of faith that collaboration is better than confrontation. Each dancer has a powerful presence but Cherkaoui has forged a remarkable unity from these disparate elements...
★★★✰✰ The evening as a whole had many beautiful moments with a good fusion of music and dance in a relaxed and informal setting.
★★★★✰ Dance Umbrella brings to The Place an unusually thoughtful and touching work. In Use My Body While It’s Still Young, Norwegian choreographer Hege Haagenrud takes a cool and unflinching look at the unfashionable subject of ageing...
Jean Abreu Dance Labirinto (based on A Thread) ★★★✰✰ London, Horniman Museum and Gardens 28 July 2016 www.jeanabreudance.com www.horniman.ac.uk The Horniman Museum and Gardens contains eclectic collections of artefacts from around the world, including a huge overstuffed walrus much loved by generations of south London children. In the run-up to the Olympics it has been hosting a series of...
★★★✰✰ Jessica Lang's Wink is an attractive piece, well designed and well made with a clear structure.
★★★★✰ The entire company looks strong and well disciplined.
★★★★✰ The work is proof that inventiveness is more important than a huge budget.
★★★★✰ The entire work is a kind of meditation, a slow ritual or pilgrimage for its cast across mounds of rice that could be mountains or rivers.
★★★✰✰ It’s a well-structured and paced piece, a successful integration of its different components, at times quite literally dazzling...
★★★✰✰ It’s an interesting idea to see how successfully the dance makers can use the different skills of the circus performers, and how the performers respond...
★★★★✰ Even without Khan’s charismatic presence Kaash is a fiercely physical and engrossing hour in the theatre...
★★★★✰ This is a bold project, crammed with incident and detail, and highly atmospheric.
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
It’s a modern and sometimes rather busy retelling, but it ends as every fairy tale should do...
It sounds like a great combination, and had some stunning moments, but turned out to be an oddly uneven experience in the theatre...
Odedra undoubtedly feels passionate about dyslexia ...and succeeds here in making what might seem an unlikely subject into a compelling account of struggle and wonder.
An interview with Adam Kirkham, Carys Staton, Nathan Young and Yu-Hsien Wu of Russell Maliphant Company as they take on roles first created by Guillem and the BalletBoyz. Also advice to graduating students and discussion of Maliphant's approach to creating new work...
Exit / Exist is Gregory Maqoma’s reflections on the story of his ancestor, Chief Maqoma, who faced up to the British in South Africa in the 19th century...
This programme is a satisfying synthesis of classical music and dance from southern India, all from performers based in the UK.