Some Memorable Performances of 2019 – London
Lynette Halewood with some reflections on London dance performances over the last year – the good and the less good…
Israel Galván – La Fiesta – London
★★★★✰ Much like his previous show, FLA.CO.MEN, with which it shares quite a few elements, this was 90 minutes of never knowing quite what was going to happen next…
Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
2017 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 18th National Dance Awards…
English National Ballet – Akram Khan’s Giselle – London
★★★★★ A production that seems destined to become a masterpiece of early 21st Century contemporary ballet.
Agudo Dance Company – Silk Road – London
★★★★✰ There’s an appealing simplicity to Jose Agudo’s first full-length company production.
Compania Manuel Liñán – Reversible – London
★★★★★ Liñán is one of flamenco’s great innovators; driving the art forward through the twenty-first century…
Israel Galván – FLA.CO.MEN – London
★★★✰✰ The Seville-born dancer Israel Galván is the most avant-garde flamenco artist performing today, constantly taking the art form apart, ruffling feathers and exploding preconceptions.
Gallery – Israel Galván: FLA.CO.MEN, London Flamenco Festival 2017
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Mythili Prakash & Sanjukta Wagh – Dancing the Gods festival – New York
★★★✰✰ The Dancing the Gods festival, presented by the World Music Institute and co-curated by the dancer and scholar Rajika Puri, is a reliable place to see good, and sometimes great Indian classical dance.
2015 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
2015 National Dance Awards – The Nominations Gallery of awards pictures Press release 25 January 2016 The 16th National Dance Awards The Place, London: 25th January 2016 The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards…
2015 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
2015 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 16th National Dance Awards,
Sagraçamba: The Rite in Rio
Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer first put their reconstruction of “The Rite of Spring” on Rio de Janeiro Ballet in 1995. This year they went back to put it on again – this is what happened…
Akram Khan & Israel Galván – Torobaka – London
In the genealogy of dance, kathak and flamenco share common ancestry.
2014 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Akram Khan & Israel Galván – Torobaka – London
Both of these performers are at the top of their game. It’s an intense experience, 70 minutes without interval but the flow of invention doesn’t cease.
Israel Galván – La Curva – New York
His body is like a cubist deconstruction of the human form, all angles and planes. His fingers and wrists can be as rigid as hammers or as florid as Moorish arabesques.
