★★★★✰ A deceptively low-key hour-long show... which blends circus skills with offbeat humour and a gently strange narrative arc.
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★★★★✰ Lost Dog’s short film, streamed for free by The Place Online was made at the beginning of lockdown and is a eulogy to live performance before the pandemic but also a rumination on life without human contact.
★★★★✰ Juliet and Romeo is a clever work on many different levels.
★★★★✰ What if the star cross’d lovers hadn’t died, but had run away, got married, had a child, reached middle age and hit a relationship crisis?
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Semperoper Ballett Dresden were another new visitor in the summer, with a programme of Forsythe works, some not seen here before. But Forsythe is a theme this year in himself.
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 19th National Dance Awards…
★★★★✰ An hour in the company of Nikki and JD is well spent.
★★★✰✰ Ben Duke's speciality, in the works he devises for Lost Dog, the company he founded in 2004 with Raquel Meseguer, is conflating high art with low life – epic literature with everyday banalities.
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet...
★★★★✰ There is a cocksure, swaggering confidence about this company and these dancers, in this programme.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year...
★★★★✰ The work is proof that inventiveness is more important than a huge budget.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
2015 National Dance Awards – The Nominations Gallery of awards pictures Press release 25 January 2016 The 16th National Dance Awards The Place, London: 25th January 2016 The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2015 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Arlene Phillips CBE. Unusually, the judges decided to give two De Valois Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2015 to...
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 16th National Dance Awards,
Paradise describes both the Garden of Eden and Heaven. It can also mean a park in which animals are kept or a state of supreme bliss.
Ben Duke opens his one-man show disarmingly by losing his place in his copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost...
A view into the start of how dance is created - or at least how some Ben Duke dance works are started...