English National Ballet – Lest We Forget: No Man’s Land, Second Breath, Dust, Firebird – London
Dust is a resounding success for Khan as creator, Rojo as artistic director and both as performers.
BalletBoyz: The Talent 2013 – Serpent, Fallen – London
…very definitely worth catching for an energetic and engrossing evening of dance.
Liang / Maliphant / Wheeldon – An evening Featuring Fang-Yi Sheu and Yuan Yuan Tan – London
No sets – just glorious lighting designs playing essential roles in the performances.
Russell Maliphant Company – Still Current bill – London
Still / Current is a marvellously evocative title for Maliphant’s work, capturing the mercurially elusive quality of his choreography and his own dancing. And the good news is that Maliphant is back on stage…
Akram Khan – Desh – London
The excellence of this work comes not just with Khan’s own enormous creativity and his tour-de-force performance but in the seamless integration of the inputs of his collaborative team…
BalletBoyz: The Talent 2013 – Serpent, Fallen – London
Fallen, an exhilarating closer of the double bill, presents the company at its heart-stopping best.
Russell Maliphant – The Rodin Project – New York
More than sculpture, the choreography reminded me of exhibitions of body-building.
Russell Maliphant – The Rodin Project – London
The Rodin Project suffers from the same structural problems as Maliphant’s expanded Afterlight. He’s poured his and his dancers’ creative energies into a superb solo or duet. Then…
Sadler’s Wells – Spring / Summer 2013 Programming
It’s the name of the game that one does not necessarily appreciate all plans (or indeed how they crystallise out in practice) but I have to say that Sadler’s Wells set a benchmark re new work/experiences and for where you want a progressive art to be.
Place Prize for Dance – Semi-Finals with 16 works – London
Nothing in contemporary dance is more guaranteed to provoke controversy than the Place Prize, now returning for its fifth edition, organised by the excellent team at The Place…
Marc Brew Company and Evelyn Glennie – Fusional Fragments – London
I’m not sure if this collaboration pushed borders or changed my mind on disability but what I do know is that it was a fine piece of work and I’m very glad I saw it.
Rambert Dance Company – What Wild Ecstasy, SUB, Faun, Art of Touch – London
Rambert… offers a mix of new commissions with rarely-seen work from their archives. Some items had much more impact than others, though not necessarily the ones you might imagine from the programme.
Ivan Putrov – Men in Motion – London
After all the fuss about Sergei Polunin abruptly leaving the Royal Ballet, guess who stole the Men in Motion show? Daniel Proietto, in the AfterLight solo Russell Maliphant made for him in 2010. Admittedly, you could read the 15-minute solo as a warning of the fate awaiting a troubled dancer deprived of the support of a company of colleagues
