Teac Damsa / Michael Keegan-Dolan – Swan Lake/Loch na hEala – London
★★★✰✰ This is Swan Lake in name only. There is no Tchaikovsky… there are no tutus… there is no-one called Odette, Odile, Siegfried or Rothbart, although there are several characters called McLoughlin…
Gallery – Teac Damsa in Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake/Loch na hEala
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
2017 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 18th National Dance Awards…
Memorable Performances of 2016 – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year…
National Youth Dance Company – In- Nocentes – London
★★★★✰ They say that the best cooks take the ingredients and do the least to them to create a magnificent meal, and that’s what Michael Keegan-Dolan has done…
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National Youth Dance Company and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – Frame[d] – London
Do catch it if you want to enjoy the energy and shared commitment of its young performers.
Fabulous Beast – Rite of Spring, Petrushka – London
The vernal equinox having passed, here was my first sighting of The Rite of Spring in this the Centenary year of Stravinsky’s great masterpiece…
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.
