★★★★✰ The second programme commemorating the 25th anniversary of Kenneth MacMillan’s death revealed his very different responses to music, and to human nature.
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★★✰✰✰ Beautiful, calming imagery is not in the vocabulary of Anatomie.
★★★★★ ...the dancing is life enhancing and the audience leaves on a high of pleasure.
★★★★✰ How many ways can you hear the same piece of music? This inspired programme by Lyon Opera Ballet suggested, with elegant simplicity, that there are as many ways to hear something as there are people to hear it.
In the first of the mixed bills celebrating Kenneth MacMillan’s ballets, 25 years after his death, "Le Baiser de la fée" intrigued me because the questions it posed about his development as a choreographer...
Featuring dancers from Birmingham Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Northern Ballet. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ ...an intriguing idea inflated into unwieldy modern dance-theatre.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Liz Lerman is an enlightened performer, writer, educator and speaker. A tiny woman with a quietly formidable presence, her lecture was an inspirational manifesto for dance and life.
★★★✰✰ Binet’s aspiration is that audiences should see beautifully trained dancers in a spiritual light, embodying Lawren Harris’s quest for the divine in nature.
★★★★★ The words “90 minutes, no interval” generally fill me with dread.
★★★✰✰ Origami is a work for a solo performer and a shipping container which slowly unfolds and reconfigures itself over forty minutes.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt’s all-male company are on sparkling form right now.
Photographed at Printworks. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Photographed at Battersea Power Station. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Karen Kain, Artistic Director of the National Ballet of Canada, on celebrating Canada's 150th with a joint work that includes NBoCanada and Royal Ballet dancers in a unique London Docklands event on the 12/13 October... that and lots more
"It’s like a game of tennis – I hit the ball and she returns it.". Margaret Willis catches up with choreographer Patrick de Bana to talk about his choroegraphic life and latest project - contributing to Svetlana Zakharova's show Amore - which tours to the UK in November.
★★★★✰ Testory is a phenomenal story teller; confessional and intimate, I could listen to his lilting intonations forever.