Viviana Durante Company – THREE/8.38/SEVEN – London
★★✰✰✰ 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…
Sisters Grimm – Inala – London
★★★★✰ 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.
Lost Dog – Juliet & Romeo – London
★★★★✰ 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?
Scottish Ballet – Dextera, Elite Syncopations – Inverness
★★★★✰ 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.
Rosie Kay Dance Company – 5 Soldiers: the Body is the Frontline – London
★★★★✰ The physicality of 5 Soldiers during the hour-long performance brings home the breaking of bodies…
Scottish Ballet – Each Other (premiere) – Glasgow
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think – and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre – Betroffenheit by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young – London
★★★✰✰ 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 – Maze, Motion of Displacement, Elsa Canasta – Glasgow
Scottish Ballet’s autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company…
Sophie Laplane – Choreographer and Dancer, Scottish Ballet
5 Questions to Sophie Laplane on her latest work for Scottish Ballet – Maze…
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch – Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört – London
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.
Phoenix Dance Theatre – Shift, Shadows, Document, Mapping – London
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.
TaikaBox – Beyond The Body – Edinburgh
There’s a clean, healthy lightness that runs through TaikaBox’s meditation on the limits of the body
Lenka Vagnerová brings wild women and mythological animals to Edinburgh in Fringe shows La Loba and Riders
‘I was not interested in the image of womanhood as it is presented by the media, nor in its visual aspect,’ says Vagnerová…
Compagnie Philippe Genty – Forget Me Not (Ne M’Oublie Pas) – Grasse
These are not purely dance performances, but an imaginative and original mixture of dance, mime, marionettes, illusion, music, light and sound effects…
Happy Birthday Nina Ananiashvili
A tribute to Nina Ananiashvili – with personal memories – on her 50th birthday.
Print Room and AP Productions – Jealousy – London
Come the end of 2012, this is likely to be one of my highlights of the year. It’s not often I see a show and then book to see the same cast immediately again or pester others to go. The reason is that Jealousy works on so many different levels…
