★★★✰✰ Although An Evening with Scottish Ballet could have been better presented by the Edinburgh Festival, the programme showcases an enterprising company full of ideas...
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Araminta Wraith, Scottish Ballet soloist, is a DanceTabs guest blogger during the companies 50th anniversary season. This is her fourth blog and all about dancers and injuries - it's a very personal and heartfelt tale...
Ballet Preljocaj are about to make their long awaited return to London's Sadler's Wells dancing "La Fresque" - Graham Watts talks to Angelin Preljocaj about the work itself and more widely about his creative life.
Araminta Wraith, Scottish Ballet soloist, is a DanceTabs guest blogger during the companies 50th anniversary season. The third blog is titled "From scrap board to stage, a dancers perspective" and all about the creation and premiere of Helen Pickett’s "The Crucible".
★★★★★ Scottish Ballet has a major critical hit on their hands - this is compelling 21st century watching. It was the premiere you want to see, but so very often don't, with everybody, but everybody, at the top of their game...
As part of their 50th anniversary Scottish Ballet presents the world premiere of The Crucible by Arthur Miller, choreographed by Helen Pickett, from 3 – 5 August at the Edinburgh International Festival ahead of a Scottish tour. helenpickett.com www.eif.co.uk www.scottishballet.co.uk Dance at this year’s Edinburgh Festival opens with your brand-new take on Arthur Miller’s The Crucible...
★★✰✰✰ The show at Wilton's Music Hall, produced and directed by former ballerina Viviana Durante, was originally billed as The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht...
★★★★✰ This third iteration of Inala under the Sadler’s Wells umbrella seems refreshingly new and the abundance of goodwill promised by the Zulu title was all-pervasive.
★★★★✰ 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?
★★★★✰ It's the company's 50th Anniversary season and rather than start it, as you might expect, in Glasgow or Edinburgh, they opened in Scotland's most northerly city, Inverness, with a special premiere and a full-on party for all.
★★★★✰ The physicality of 5 Soldiers during the hour-long performance brings home the breaking of bodies...
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think - and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
★★★✰✰ I give it 3 stars because when you do see Pite's movement it's amazing, but in any other hands this was a 2 star night.
Scottish Ballet's autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company...
5 Questions to Sophie Laplane on her latest work for Scottish Ballet - Maze...
Auf dem Gebirge comes from her gloomy period, when she was more concerned with the imagery her performers could dig out of themselves than with their abilities as dancers.
It's not often these days you get a bill that couples a brand-new piece by Christopher Bruce with something by Darshan Singh Bhuller. Sadly neither of these choreographic heavyweights has been as active in UK dance as they were formerly and this program reminds us of what we have been missing.
There’s a clean, healthy lightness that runs through TaikaBox’s meditation on the limits of the body
‘I was not interested in the image of womanhood as it is presented by the media, nor in its visual aspect,’ says Vagnerová...
These are not purely dance performances, but an imaginative and original mixture of dance, mime, marionettes, illusion, music, light and sound effects...