★★★✰✰ Reckonings celebrates the 20th anniversary of the reopening of Sadler’s Wells after its rebuild. Rather than commemorate previous successes, it presents three new works commissioned from emerging UK choreographers as a deliberate statement of belief in the future.
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★★★★★ It must be tempting to get carried away by sentiment when it comes to celebrating both a 70th birthday and fifty years as a choreographer in a programme that also marks the departure of a special muse.
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 18th National Dance Awards...
★★★★★ ...the dancing is life enhancing and the audience leaves on a high of pleasure.
★★★✰✰ A final poem, ‘Man Down’, calls for compassion and acceptance that we are all combinations of male and female. The message is in the words rather than in the bodies of the dancers.
★★★✰✰ Multiverse: McGregor and his dramaturg may know what they want to convey about life and the universe(s) but despite the dancers’ efforts, the result is baffling.
★★★★✰ Jérôme Bel’s Gala turns the performer/spectator dynamic and the act of performance itself, inside-out...
★★★★✰ Whenever I see Michael Clark's company I usually come away energised and uplifted. Nobody fuses ballet to a youthful modern world like Clark does or reminds you that it's a tough technique that's been around a long time.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Esa-Pekka Salonen is conducting London's Philharmonia Orchestra in a Stravinsky festival, the first concert of which included a collaboration with Karole Armitage's company on "Agon" - famously originally choreographed by Balanchine...
They say of designer Paul Smith that his style is 'classic with a twist' and the same might often be said of Michael Clark - classical (ballet) steps with a twist or...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
As Clement Crisp wrote after Darrell’s death: ‘His ballets are true and fascinating mirrors of their age’. Timing a revival is always tricky. Would we want to see his Beatles ballet, Mods and Rockers (1963), again?
Bob Lockyer must be truly proud of his birthday gift: not a dud amongst the commissions he has brought about, sending three young choreographers on their way to a promising future.
2012/13 does not look a great year for dance at the Barbican – judged by today’s press release anyway. It mainly comes down to Michael Clark it seems. Now Clark is not to be sniffed at by anybody and we much look forward to the premiere of course… but hopefully more dance will come in 2013 and the second part of the season. The Michael Clark Company part of the press release...
Good to see Draft Works in the larger Linbury Theatre and as ever much fun to spot rising choreographic and dance stars closer than normal...