★★★✰✰ Trying to understand a holistic approach to the narrative was like compiling a jigsaw where some of the pieces are missing and others don’t fit.
Tag - Mark Bruce
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.
★★★✰✰ The good news is that Queen of Spades is a good-looking crowd pleaser and the RDB dancers look fantastic in it - I can't emphasise that enough. Also good that it's a step up from his last commission, Frankenstein - thank goodness, really.
★★★★✰ This is a work that is sinister, in mood, and vivid, in style. It works on many levels of ingenious allusion...
★★★✰✰ Violence lurks in every corner of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, from supernatural malevolence to visceral carnage. Mark Bruce’s new take on the production taps into classic horror tropes to animate this force...
As his new Macbeth starts its UK tour with Jonathan Goddard in the lead, we have a very quick chat with award winning choreographer Mark Bruce...
★★★✰✰ There were times in the hour-long performance when the sensory overload kicked in and one started to be more conscious of the heat inside the chapel...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year...
★★★★✰ It's taken me a while to catch up with Lorent but my goodness I won't miss much from here on.
★★★★✰ This is a bold project, crammed with incident and detail, and highly atmospheric.
Award winning Mark Bruce has just unveiled his latest work - The Odyssey - based on Homer's epic poem. But circumstances around the premiere have put the company through their own testing odyssey, if we were tantalised and enthralled by what we saw...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
All up, another win for Ballet Black - a strong double bill of consequence and contrast preceded by a short amuse-bouche.
Two brand new Ballet Black works, by Mark Bruce and Kit Holder, photographed by Dave Morgan...
5 Questions to Jonathan Goddard on Dracula and more...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
This production, in this place, is about as good as it gets. If it doesn’t win a slew of awards for Mark Bruce and his team then I might just have to go walking around those East End Alleys in search of the vampire bride!
The ethereal impact is greatly enhanced by atmospheric lighting, smoke, the sound of bells and the sundry, diverse smells of devotion in this old Grade-1 Listed Victorian church.
5 Questions to Mark Bruce about his up and coming premiere and UK tour of 'Dracula'....