Pictures of Tamara Rojo’s final curtain calls at The Royal Opera House last night - 21 February 2013. She danced in Marguerite and Armand alongside Sergei Polunin.
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The release of his book Dancers: Behind the Scenes with The Royal Ballet brings together Andrej’s images for the first time, revealing an intimate photographic record of The Royal Ballet.
The good thing about Midnight Tango is that it doesn't feel like a production that has been skimped on in any way. ...So are these ingredients deployed to good affect? Well I'd hoped for a little more, to be honest
Working backwards from the title song that ends Two Cigarettes in the Dark, it’s possible to discern a theme in Pina Bausch’s 1985 piece...
18 pictures by Dave Morgan as part of our overall review...
But it was Rojo who really surprised me, with the most emotionally open performance I've ever seen from her. ...a swansong, indeed: what a way to go!
Essakow has continued to evolve as a choreographer, thanks to his association with The Print Room. Its high standards of presentation attract first-rate collaborators and performers, and by including spoken and projected words, Flow attracts non-dance-specialist audiences.
If music be the food of love, then it is surely the air and water of dance.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
Alston’s response to music is scrupulous, but Kondo’s percussive clatters, not dissimilar to John Cage’s prepared-piano poundings, takes some getting used to – for audiences, as for dancers.
By abstracting and generalising the emotions in Pushkin’s verse-novel, Colker has rendered her account of the story completely incoherent.
Pictures by Dave Morgan - more will be added over the next 24 hours
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle announced the winners of the 13th National Dance Awards at The Place on 28th January 2013.
Fallen, an exhilarating closer of the double bill, presents the company at its heart-stopping best.
Cojocaru is as great a dance-actress in the final scene as any I’ve been privileged to see – and that includes Lynn Seymour, Natalia Makarova and Ekaterina Maximova.
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
36 pictures by Dave Morgan...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
It's the Royal Ballet's varied and unique repertoire that has kept me loyal to the company through some very thin times as well as the golden seasons, and this programme is a nice example of what a flick through its back - catalogue can produce.
People talk about wanting to get new and younger audiences in for dance and this was really a great way of achieving it.