Ivan Putrov – Men in Motion (2017) – London
★★✰✰✰ All the ingredients seemed promising but the evening was disappointing, struggling to recover from the tedium of the dire opening item…
Russell Maliphant Company – maliphantworks: Wall, One part II, Two, Afterlight (Part One) – London
★★★★★ The hour-long evening is a magical experience, a testament to the decades-long collaboration between Maliphant and Hulls…
Ivan Putrov – Men in Motion – Lodz Ballet Festival
The most impressive (if not, incredible) thing is that his scratch company exudes the professionalism that one would expect from a tight-knit group that has lived, trained, rehearsed and performed together for seasons.
24th International Ballet Festival of Havana, 2014
This time, I made 15 trips to the theatres – there were performances at 5pm and 9pm each day – and saw 82 different full-length ballets or extracts in the eight days I was in Havana.
Ivan Putrov – Men in Motion (2014) – London
…the men Ivan Putrov has chosen for his latest Men in Motion programme are exceptional dance-interpreters, not self-glorifiers…
Gallery – Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion (blur)
Jim Markland of James Rowbotham Dance Photography thought he’d do a different take on photographing Ivan Putrov’s Men in Motion – using some 5 second exposures.
Ivan Putrov – Dancer, Choreographer and Director of Men in Motion
“I want audiences to leave inspired, not scratching themselves in boredom.”
2012 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Ivan Putrov – Men in Motion – London
After all the fuss about Sergei Polunin abruptly leaving the Royal Ballet, guess who stole the Men in Motion show? Daniel Proietto, in the AfterLight solo Russell Maliphant made for him in 2010. Admittedly, you could read the 15-minute solo as a warning of the fate awaiting a troubled dancer deprived of the support of a company of colleagues
