Memorable Performances of 2018 – London
Semperoper Ballett Dresden were another new visitor in the summer, with a programme of Forsythe works, some not seen here before. But Forsythe is a theme this year in himself.
2018 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 19th National Dance Awards…
Natalia Osipova – Pure Dance – London
★★★✰✰ No trade description problems, here. This was exactly what it said on the tin: Natalia Osipova performing pure dance, enhanced only by recorded music and lighting designs varying from the merest of subtle tints to an explosion of floodlights…
Mark Bruce Company – Macbeth – London
★★★✰✰ Violence lurks in every corner of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, from supernatural malevolence to visceral carnage. Mark Bruce’s new take on the production taps into classic horror tropes to animate this force…
Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
Richard Alston Dance Company – Glint, Tangent, Chacony, Gypsy Mixture – London
★★★★★ The programme ended with a revival of the ebullient and uplifting Gypsy Mixture…
Royal Ballet / Royal Opera – Les Enfants Terribles – London
★★★✰✰ The story line becomes as labyrinthine as the ribbons of tape that criss-cross Paul’s bedroom.
New Movement Collective – Collapse– a period drama – London
★★★★✰ The performers need the sharpest of reactions to deal with the unexpected, negotiating routes through bemused and bedazzled spectators.
Gallery – New Movement Collective in Collapse – a period drama
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Richard Alston Dance Company – An Italian in Madrid, Brisk Singing, Mazur, Stronghold – London
★★★★✰ All-in-all this was an outstanding programme of entertaining dance…
Mark Bruce Company – The Odyssey – Frome
Award winning Mark Bruce has just unveiled his latest work – The Odyssey – based on Homer’s epic poem. But circumstances around the premiere have put the company through their own testing odyssey, if we were tantalised and enthralled by what we saw…
2015 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Richard Alston Dance Company – Alston at Home, 20th Anniversary bill – London
The Richard Alston Dance Company concludes its spring tour with a series of performances at The Place, celebrating their 20th anniversary with premieres of new commissions and a revival of one of his classics…
Robert Cohan at 90 – Gala evening at The Place – London
The opening and closing pieces showed how skilfully Cohan responds to dancers whose training and experience are very different from the Graham-based technique on which he drew for many decades.
Yorke Dance Project – Figure Ground bill – London
Heralding the celebrations of Robert Cohan’s 90th anniversary year Yolande Yorke-Edgell’s enterprising company, founded in 2009, is touring a programme, Figure Ground, containing two of his works.
2014 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2014 took place today in London at The Place’s Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
Jonathan Goddard – Freelance Dancer, Mover and Shaker
5 Questions to Jonathan Goddard on Dracula and more…
HeadSpaceDance – If Play is Play: Two, Before the Interval, The Days The Nights The Wounds and The Night – London
All up there was lot of thoughtful and thought-provoking contemporary movement on stage made by some of the best dramatic dancers you will see. The approach is all very grown-up and I hope they do more.
