★★★✰✰ Big Dance Theater company, based in New York, set about turning Samuel Pepys priapic confessions into a dance theatre piece, mashing up past and present....
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★★★✰✰ What will Co.Lab become? I look forward to finding out. Meanwhile, it’s simply encouraging to see these dancers and emerging choreographers create something of their own.
★★✰✰✰ Cherkaoui looks older than his years, so much so that his relationship in Play with Shivalingappa risks being unsettling. As dancers, they are no longer equals, as they must have been in 2008.
★★★★✰ Velvet Petal is Darkin’s latest work for the company, created in 2017 after she read Just Kids, Patti Smith’s memoir about her relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the 1970s.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition is unique in British ballet in throwing the spotlight on more junior dancers or “tomorrow’s stars” as ENB put it. This year’s competition is on the 11 June and ahead of the that we talk to the finalists – Precious Adams, Fernando Carratalá Coloma, Giorgio Garrett, Daniel McCormick, Francesca Velicu and Connie Vowles...
★★★★✰ It's impossible to make coherent sense of a Bausch piece, whatever the source of her inspiration.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet...
★★★★✰ There is a cocksure, swaggering confidence about this company and these dancers, in this programme.
★★✰✰✰ It started sedately enough, with the three men and three women emerging in stretchy black dresses...
★★★✰✰ Each performance of Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography will be different, since its composition is to be determined by an algorithm based on his genetic code. ...whatever a reviewer describes will never be the same again.
★★★✰✰ Mats Ek’s "Axe" could be the beginning to a new Scandi Noir TV series. There is a man, an axe, a huge pile of wood that he starts to chop with repressed intensity and a visibly distressed wife. It doesn’t look like it will end well.
★★★★✰ Both are pre-existing ensemble works, the performers virtually anonymous on stage, though named on cast sheets: the company is the star, not the soloists.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition is unique in British ballet in throwing the spotlight on more junior dancers or “tomorrow’s stars” as ENB put it. This year's competition is on the 25 May and ahead of the that we talk to 4 of the 6 finalists - Isabelle Brouwers, Rina Kanehara, Madison Keesler and Guilherme Menezes...
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think - and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
★★★★✰ Matthew Bourne celebrates the 30th anniversary of his own company at the same time as Tate Britain has launched "Queer British Art 1861-1967" to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. "Early Adventures" could be a theatrical coda to the exhibition...
★★★★★ One cannot help but observe that while the programmes of other companies both hit and miss, in terms of their critical appreciation and popular appeal, ENB is continually raising the bar...
From ★★★★★'s to ★★✰✰✰ Works by Joli Vyann, Compagnie MPTA, Compagnie Mossoux Bonté, Euripides Laskaridis and Charleroi Danses.
Founded eight years ago Hagit Yakira Dance are steadily becoming more widely known as they tour increasingly - which is what they are currently doing. We have a word with the boss about this particular tour and her approach to creating accessible and entertaining work...
★★★★✰ How do you find the soul of a city? It was a challenge that Pina Bausch and her company took on again and again with their World Cities series of tanztheater works – and "Masurca Fogo", made in 1998, must rank as one of the most successful attempts.