Gallery – Mark Morris Dance Group / Silkroad Ensemble: Layla and Majnun
Photographed by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Rambert2 + Rambert – Grey Matter, E2 7SD, Killer Pig, Ghost Dances – London
★★★★✰ Rambert’s latest programme is a night of hellos and goodbyes, marking the debut of the company’s new standalone junior faction, Rambert2, as well the final performance of a repertory favourite, Christopher Bruce’s Ghost Dances.
Rosie Kay Dance Company – MK Ultra – London
★★★✰✰ Rosie Kay’s MK Ultra is an ambitious project which tackles complex thematic sources – conspiracy theories, brain washing and mind-control, not to mention myths about secret societies such as the Illuminati…
Gallery – Aakash Odedra Company in #JeSuis
Photographed at Sadler’s Wells by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Andrea Costanzo Martini and Aris Papadopoulos / Martha Pasakopoulou – Aerowaves 2bill – London
★★★✰✰ After all these years, here is evidence – if any were needed – that the Aerowaves experiment continues to showcase great talent.
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance – Contagion – London
★★★★✰ Overshadowed by the atrocities of WWI, which is commemorated loudly and frequently, the killer Spanish Flu, which killed an estimated 50-100 million people, is at last fittingly acknowledged on its 100th anniversary in Shobana Jeyasingh’s work Contagion.
Royal Ballet – La Bayadère – London
★★★★✰ In the past, the Royal Ballet’s version, last performed five years ago, has sometimes seemed insubstantial. Not so this time, with a luxury cast in full dramatic mode: Vadim Muntagirov, Marianela Nuñez, Natalia Osipova and Gary Avis…
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.
Gallery – Rambert2 in E2 7SD, Killer Pig, Grey Matter
Works by Benoit Swan Pouffer, Rafael Bonachela and Sharon Eyal/Gai Behar, photographed by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Fire and Fury: The King Dances, Ignite – London
★★★✰✰ David Bintley, who steps down as director of Birmingham Royal Ballet at the end of the 2018/2019 season, describes the current double bill as ‘two ballets fuelled by power and politics’.
Gallery – Shobana Jeyasingh Dance in Contagion
Photographed at the British Library by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Eddie Nixon, new Artistic Director of The Place
Eddie Nixon has just been appointed as The Place’s Artistic Director – Graham Watts is first to interview him about his new role and plans…
Gallery – Royal Ballet in La Bayadère
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou of the Muntagirov, Osipova and Nuñez cast.
Royal Ballet – Mayerling (Bonelli, Morera) – London
★★★★✰ The partnership in Mayerling between Morera and Bonelli is a fine example of how experience can illumine the nuances of a dramatic ballet.
Jasmin Vardimon Company – Medusa – London
★★★✰✰ Jasmin Vardimon’s latest work uses mythology to make a powerful point about gender issues in the present day with an overt relevance to the #MeToo movement.
Colin Dunne – Concert – London
★★★★✰ Since leaving the Riverdance juggernaut, Dunne has taken a stripped-back approach to Irish dancing, exposing its deeply soulful side.
Le Patin Libre – Threshold – London
★★★★✰ If there is a major difference between Le Patin Libre of 2014 and now, then surely it lies in this merger of these skaters’ extreme skills with the same elite capability in their artistic collaborators.
Dimitris Papaioannou – The Great Tamer – London
★★★★✰ What a deeply strange – and strangely affecting – piece of work The Great Tamer is. You’d struggle to call it dance; Dimitris Papaioannou is intensely interested in bodies and how to move them, but this manifested itself in something quite different from sequences of steps.
Tom Dale Company – I Infinite – London
★★★✰✰ Dale and his collaborators have succeeded in creating a highly unusual ambience for dance; a place of quiet reflection and arresting imagery…
5 Questions to choreographer Ieva Kuniskis about her latest work, future plans and Brexit…
“I only got my first taste of contemporary dance at 16 when a friend took me to a class – I fell in love instantly!”
