The inaugural performance of the Just Us Hip Hop Apprentice Co. is livestreamed from the main stage at DanceEast on Friday 16 April. A good time to have a word with Joseph Toonga about an important initiative...
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Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Didy Veldman's Umanoove are about to tour her latest work - The Knot - an examination of the social and personal significance of marriage in contemporary Western society. Diane Parkes has a word about the work and what makes Veldman tick
We talk to two of the three artistic directors of Nora about what makes them tick and touring their latest bill - "Nora invites Aggiss, Burrows, Fargion and Tanguy".
Tamsin’s decision to commission all three works from women follows 2Faced’s launch of The BENCH – a project specifically aimed at providing opportunities for female choreographers....
Dance at the Latitude Festival 2015 - Sara Veale with a full report...
Arthur Pita The Little Match Girl London, Lillian Baylis Studio 13 December 2014 www.arthurpita.com www.sadlerswells.com This Christmas family show in the cosy space of the Lillian Baylis Studio (at Sadler’s Wells) is a real charmer. It’s all put together on a very modest scale, with an energetic cast of four portraying multiple roles. But it has a warm heart and a big imagination and bags of...
Full Details of the 2014 / 15 Season...
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...
Funding is my biggest frustration. Compared to others, we receive peanuts. We have to strip everything back. That can be healthy – forcing me to scrutinise why I want something and concentrating on production values.
Five Questions for Assis Carreiro on taking over as Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders...
Press Release: 4 July 2012 DanceEast announces Rural Retreat in 2013 – The future is now Respect the past, herald the future but concentrate on the present Ninette de Valois Since 2003, DanceEast has been producing the internationally respected Rural Retreats. These think tanks have been bringing together leaders and future leaders from the world of ballet and dance to look at key issues...
Bob Lockyer must be truly proud of his birthday gift: not a dud amongst the commissions he has brought about, sending three young choreographers on their way to a promising future.
I want to bring more of the public to the artform and see the enjoyment it brings. I suppose I believe I have something to say!
I went to the final get-together of the Rural Retreat on Monday at the House of Commons. I’ve been to a few of these wrap-up sessions now and they are good for the soul – all the participants are high as kites from sorting out how dance can go forward, filled with amazing ideas from the inspiring speakers they have heard and their own brain-storming. If they achieve half of what they...