2018 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 19th National Dance Awards…
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – Formosa – London
★★★★✰ Formosa means beautiful, and is how Portuguese sailors described the island of Taiwan when they reached it in the sixteenth century. It is the title of the latest work by Lin Hwai-Min, his final creation before retiring as Artistic Director of the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre…
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – Songs of the Wanderers – London
★★★★✰ 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.
Gallery – Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in Songs of the Wanderers
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan – Sacred Monsters – London
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.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan – Nine Songs – London
Cloud Gate’s lotuses set the scene for a lengthy work which is meditative, poetic and often beautiful to look at.
Hong Kong Dance Company – Spring Ritual-Eulogy – Hong Kong
Overall, this thoughtful piece confirms Yang as a choreographer of intelligence and originality. Design, lighting and music are all excellent, as is the dancing from this fine ensemble company.
