Enthusiasm alone doesn’t make a show a success, though, and Inala doesn’t quite succeed in melding all that goodwill into a coherent exploration of dance and music from markedly different traditions.
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In the genealogy of dance, kathak and flamenco share common ancestry.
The dancing was never short of extraordinary. The opening part showcased the cerebral seriousness of the Solea...
Marcelo Gomes, American Ballet Theatre's much-admired star is about to be busy on other things and in London too. He'll be staring in The Car Men but first we see him dance in his own choreography at the Ardani Gala 17/18 July. 5 Questions to him...
Of the three Choreographics evenings to date I thought this was the best, with all the pieces feeling buffed-up, thought about and nobody making a huge wrong turn.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
It's undoubtedly fun in Decouflé’s world... but you do start to wish someone would hold your hand through it for a while.
...Traces has been going now since 2006 and the audience seemed happy enough no matter how depressed I was at times.
Madame Butterfly is one of Nixon’s most effective narrative productions, combining japonaiserie with classical ballet conventions...
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...
The programme stretches and shows off the young graduates to good advantage in a well-chosen assortment.
Coup Fatal is an impossible-to-categorise music concert in which dance is but an energetic embellishment to the music in much the same way as dancers enliven a Kylie concert...
It was only when I worked with Mats Ek that I understood who I was as a dancer.
The final triple bill of the Royal Ballet’s season reverts to its founder’s faith in classical ballet as an expressive language.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Ben Duke opens his one-man show disarmingly by losing his place in his copy of Milton’s Paradise Lost...
Gallery by John Mallinson...
So how did it go with the young audience? Answer, jolly well...
The joint home will be based at London City Island E14, a new neighbourhood from Eco World Ballymore. The development is a short distance from Canning Town and adjoins Trinity Buoy Wharf...
What, you may wonder, is the point of it all?