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.
Gallery – Aakash Odedra Company in #JeSuis
Photographed at Sadler’s Wells by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Matthias Sperling – Now That We Know – London
★★✰✰✰ 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.
Alexandra Waierstall – And here we meet – London
★★✰✰✰ 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…
Gallery – Akram Khan Company in Portraits in Otherness
Works by Ching-Ying Chien, Maya Jilan Dong, Dickson Mbi, Joy Alpuerto Ritter. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
DeNada Dance Theatre – TORO: Beauty and the Bull – London
★★★★✰ This is a work that is sinister, in mood, and vivid, in style. It works on many levels of ingenious allusion…
Neon Dance – Sadler’s Wells Wild Card bill – London
★★★✰✰ 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.
Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
Maud Le Pladec & Okwui Okpokwasili – Hunted – London
★★✰✰✰ Munyaneza rises to the challenge of the show with her provocative, fearless performance, but it’s still difficult to sit through.
Images Ballet Company – Distant Beauties, Concerto for Joyce and Dennis, Handsfree, Scenes of Death and Disaster – London
★★★★✰ This year’s Images Ballet Company is 8 strong, small in the graduate school scheme of things, and yet their show was one of the most exciting I’ve seen in years with a wonderful and eclectic choice of repertoire, danced with passion and verve.
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”.
Agudo Dance Company – Silk Road – London
★★★★✰ There’s an appealing simplicity to Jose Agudo’s first full-length company production.
Gallery – Agudo Dance Company in Silk Road: Full Circle and West to East
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Aakash Odedra – Echoes, I Imagine – London
★★★★✰ At first sight the two works in Aakash Odedra’s solo show at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Studio could hardly be more unalike.
2016 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2016 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, the creative team behind the highly successful dance company, Boy Blue Entertainment.
Company of Elders – Art of Age II – London
★★✰✰✰ Sad to say, then, that I found Art of Age II rather disappointing…
Hetain Patel – American Man – London
★★✰✰✰ American Man, sets racism and sexism in its sights – “somewhat contradictory” subjects for Patel, he noted in his follow-up talk…
