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Like most dances with folk roots, flamenco suffers somewhat from being cooped up in a theatre. It is, at its heart, a participatory and spontaneous art...
Nothing says more about Rambert's need for new premises than a sign taken down from one of the old studios: "Jumping is not allowed in this studio due to structural weakness"
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Who knew that Beethoven composed his own cover version of ‘Sally in our Alley’? Mark Morris, obviously: the (English) song is the centrepiece of The Muir...
Eighty years after Robert Helpmann left Australia and joined the Sadler’s Wells Ballet company, a Royal Ballet School symposium celebrated his achievements as a man of the theatre.
This is as powerful as dance theatre gets and a bill that connects and chimes with us all.
In this programme we got some shiny new toys, maybe quirkier than we imagined, but some definitely to keep and treasure.
As its whistle-stop tour drew to its final week, the Russian State Ballet settled down for three consecutive days at Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
This was an evening not to be missed. Newly appointed Artistic Director, José Manuel Carreño, made sure that the quality of the eighteen guest artists for Ballet San Jose’s Gala Performance would tantalise even the most skeptical dance fan.
They say of designer Paul Smith that his style is 'classic with a twist' and the same might often be said of Michael Clark - classical (ballet) steps with a twist or...
Someone wise once said that the journey is as important as the destination...
At times the choreography doesn't seem to fit this space... Nonetheless, the dancers do a remarkable job with what they are given.
...very definitely worth catching for an energetic and engrossing evening of dance.
The fact that the company’s 30-piece orchestra was there accompanying the dancers helped elevate the atmosphere to something special.
So the company showed well enough to save the afternoon – but how much better they would look in a stronger piece.
Throughout the piece, Bourne’s choreography is highly theatrical and vigorous but only intermittently compelling ...the chief pleasure of the evening was the highly-spirited and convincing performance of the entire cast.
L’Allegro, with its painterly tableaux, classical references, and unselfconscious evocations of sex and death, feels both ancient - almost pagan - and perfectly of our time...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The gulf between commercial dance – the kind one sees in TV ads, music videos, and on shows like So You Think You Can Dance – and theatrical dance is disconcerting....