Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa – Play – London
★★✰✰✰ Cherkaoui looks older than his years, so much so that his relationship in Play with Shivalingappa risks being unsettling. As dancers, they are no longer equals, as they must have been in 2008.
5 Questions to Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley of Nora
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”.
Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion & Hugo Glendinning – 52 Portraits – London
★★★✰✰ The portraits are probably not a way into dance for someone who wasn’t already interested – and it’s probably better to watch them in small doses. However, they do remind us of something rather lovely…
Nora – BLOODY NORA!, Eleanor And Flora Music, Digging – London
Endearing, intelligent and enterprising, Sikorski and Wellesley Wesley will find the right format for Nora to flourish.
Gallery – Nora in BLOODY NORA!, Eleanor And Flora Music, Digging
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Gallery – Elixir Festival: Knowbody bill
Gallery by Dave Morgan… Sadler’s Wells presents its largest celebration of lifelong creativity and the contribution of older artists with the Elixir Festival. The Knowbody bill includes work by Mats Ek, Dominique Mercy, Hofesh Shechter, Sonia Uribe, Jonathan Burrows & Matteo Fargion…
Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion – Rebelling Against Limit – London
Where Cheap Lecture seemed content to dispense casual and unpretentious pearls of wisdom in rhythmic form (“things made with effort sometimes only show effort”), Rebelling Against Limits seems shot-through with a minor angst…
Bob Lockyer’s Birthday Bash – London
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.
