Nederlands Dans Theater – Shoot the Moon, Woke up Blind, The Statement, Stop-Motion – London
★★★★✰ World-class dancers… it’s the dancers’ polish and power that raises all they do up another level.
5 questions for Paul Lightfoot, Choreographer and Artistic Director of Nederlands Dans Theater
Nederlands Dans Theater is paying London’s Sadler’s Wells a short visit (26-29 June) with an interesting bill of works by Crystal Pite, Marco Goecke & the duo Paul Lightfoot & Sol Leon.
Gallery – Nederlands Dans Theater 2 in Schubert, Sad Case and Some Other Time
NDT2 in works by Sol Leon & Paul Lightfoot. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Obituary: David Drew, Royal Ballet Principal, with the company 56 years
David Drew, for 56 years a member of The Royal Ballet, has died after a long battle with illness. He described himself as one of a ‘bridge generation’ of dancers. The longevity of his career meant that he worked with many figures from the Ballets Russees – but also taught many dancers and choreographers working today.
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 – I New Then, Shutters Shut, Sara, Subject to Change – New York
There are some companies that are always worth seeing just to watch them move: NDT is one of them, and NDT 2 – at the Joyce through Sunday – is no different.
Polish Dance Platform – Lublin 2014
A first for DanceTabs in covering the Polish Dance Platform event – 3 days of contemporary dance and big thinking in Lublin. Lucy Ribchester, who has covered much dance at the Edinburgh festivals, reports on a wide ranging event…
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 – Postscript, Shutters Shut, Sara, I New Then – Edinburgh
Eclectic, fascinating choreography is danced with precision and passion by this fine-tuned company…
Baltic Dance Theatre – Netherlands 1 bill: Clash, Fun, Light – Gdansk
The big event was Light, set to the music of Phillip Glass and based upon Symborska’s poem about “that woman from the Rijksmuseum” (a reference to the servant girl that Vermeer painted pouring milk).
Nederlands Dans Theater – Sehnsucht, Schmetterling – San Francisco
This visit by the internationally acclaimed troupe met half of my high expectations – the dancers were as spectacular as ever.
Mariinsky Ballet – Gala – Baden-Baden
The Mariinsky Ballet’s annual Baden-Baden tour is something of a balletomane’s winter retreat and, with mild weather to boot over Christmas, provided yet another opportunity this season to catch up with the St. Petersburg company.
Mariinsky Festival – Diana Vishneva bill – St Petersburg
A highlight of the Mariinsky Festival this year was a performance dedicated to the Mariinsky prima ballerina, Diana Vishneva…
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 – Passe-Partout, Gods & Dogs, Cacti – London
Across all three works, the art of set and costume designs, video projections and lighting vied with an almost equal intensity of image-creation with the music and choreography… It was all too much to absorb in a single sitting.
Nederlands Dans Theater 2 UK Premiere and Tour
One of the world’s most popular contemporary dance groups, NDT2 returns to Sadler’s Wells ahead of a UK tour with a programme including Jiří Kylián’s award-winning Gods and Dogs, NDT2Associate Artist Alexander Ekman’s Cacti and Passe-Partout by Paul Lightfoot and Sol León.
