Blackburn has deconstructed the story of the play and the conventions of narrative dance. The only way to follow ‘the one-hour’s traffic of the stage’ is through video captions and quotations...
Tag - Pina Bausch
Hofesh Schechter joins the ranks of choreographers who have directed (or co-directed in Schechter’s case, along with John Fulljames) Gluck’s Orpheus opera: they include Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Pina Bausch and Mark Morris, among others.
It's undoubtedly fun in Decouflé’s world... but you do start to wish someone would hold your hand through it for a while.
...d’avant is the collaborative work of four dancers-singers-creators: Sidi Larbi Charkaoui, Damien Jalet, Luc Dunberry and Juan Kruz Diaz de Garaio Esnaola. Waltz herself is not credited in the programme...
Expecting the unexpected comes with the territory of any production by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and so even unplanned events can seem to be part of the show.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Auf dem Gebirge comes from her gloomy period, when she was more concerned with the imagery her performers could dig out of themselves than with their abilities as dancers.
According to Carlson’s programme note, the lemons represent segments of challenge and confrontation...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
...AM I is a thematic magpie, shifting from the macro to the micro and back again in its exploration of the nexus of religion and science.
Herein lies one of the more unfortunate traits of Kontakthof: there is more madness than dancing...
What a strange world flamenco dancer Rocío Molina conjures up for us in her latest show...
A new double bill has just been unveiled by Candoco Dance Company with work by Hetain Patel and Thomas Hauert...
Overall, while an interesting night for them and those who know them, it wasn't a night that would garner them lots of new fans all hailing them as magnificent. For that you still need to catch them, if you can, doing their fireworks in the likes of Don Quixote...
...I think it’s safe to say that she is an artist who follows her obsessions with a tenacity that is both admirable and frequently defeating.
It’s a really demanding work, and the intimate setting of the Purcell Room brings you up close to every drop of sweat.
5 Questions to Paul White. Last year Australian Paul White danced at the Southbank Centre in Meryl Tankard's 'The Oracle' and won a UK National Dance Award for Outstanding Performance. This week he dances in a new piece at the Southbank - another winner? We catch up with him...
Transitions Dance Company is a finishing school that provides a special opportunity to contextualise their dance studies and training and this year’s ensemble demonstrated a strong range of capabilities across a wide spectrum of skill sets.
Alain Platel was inspired to make this work by the life of an elderly Brazilian woman named Estamira. Suffering from schizophrenia, yet charismatic and philosophical, she lived on a municipal rubbish dump...
Dance at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2014: Trisha Brown, Akram Khan, Pina Bausch, Jockey Club Series
The 2014 Arts Festival offered contemporary dance from established international masters along with new wave work from Asia, Scandinavia and Hong Kong itself.