★★★✰✰ Choreographer, performance artist and curator Christopher Matthews occupies both the public and private spaces of Sadler’s Wells and the Lilian Baylis inviting us to feast our eyes on bodies - live, filmed and narrated.
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★★★★✰ Silvestrini has fashioned a striking theatrical experience in perfect harmony with this timeless story, capped by a triumphal performance in the title role.
★★★✰✰ Fernanda Munoz-Newsome's unconventional set up in the Lilian Baylis transformed the studio into part nightclub-chill-out lounge, part sensual art installation and featured a line-up of intriguing guest artists.
Gallery – Georgia Vardarou’s Why should it be more desirable for green fire balls to exist than not?
Part of Dance Umbrella 2019 - Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Okur’s style of movement is highly distinctive - as if locking and popping have had the jerkiness removed and replaced with something altogether more silky.
★★★✰✰ In the event, the levels of polish and invention were quite remarkable given the circumstances.
★★★✰✰ Images has done an excellent job of commissioning appropriate, innovative choreographers, allowing the company to exceed their expectations...
★★★★✰ Over the years that I’ve seen them, this extraordinary company of quirky individuals have become more adventurous about what they perform and flexible in how they perform...
★★★✰✰ It was one of those evenings without an obvious beginning or end...
★★★✰✰ Nora's show combines a piece made by Hay for the company followed by a short lecture-demonstration in which they guide us through different frames for watching dance – inspired from their viewing of Hay making a solo.
★✰✰✰✰ There may have been an intelligent premise to this show but, if there was, it remained inaccessible to me....
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.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Photographed at Sadler's Wells by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ Matthias Sperling’s Now That We Know explores a long-running preoccupation of dancemakers and academics alike: how performance invokes and reflects the mind-body connection.
★★✰✰✰ Waierstall explores themes of extinction through the impact of humans on the earth’s geology and ecosystems. While thematically and visually intriguing, And here we meet lacks coherence...
Works by Ching-Ying Chien, Maya Jilan Dong, Dickson Mbi, Joy Alpuerto Ritter. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ This is a work that is sinister, in mood, and vivid, in style. It works on many levels of ingenious allusion...
★★★✰✰ All-in-all, it was a strange and eclectic evening, fluctuating from the sublime to the excruciatingly boring. ...It has encouraged me to see more of Neon Dance whenever the chance arises.
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet...