Nicola Gunn – Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster – London
★★★✰✰ A disarmingly odd blend of narrative theatre, philosophical debate and experimental performance.
Gauri Sharma Tripathi, Sonia Sabri and Mayuri Boonham – Descendants bill – London
★★★★✰ As in all three pieces, these female artists and choreographers are formidable figures, descendants of dance pioneers from the Indian sub-continent.
Forced Entertainment – That Night Follows Day – London
★★★★✰ Performed by a cast of seventeen children ranging from ages 5 – 15, Forced Entertainment’s delightfully humorous and poignant work reveals how adults shape children through their projection of values and beliefs.
Wen Hui – Red – London
★★★✰✰ It reminds you powerfully that the Chinese Cultural Revolution has a living legacy…
Scottish Dance Theatre – Velvet Petal – London
★★★★✰ 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.
Jean Abreu Dance – An Other Solo for Two – London
★★★✰✰ Abreu is a remarkable performer, with a technique developed from forms of Brazilian dance and martial arts that enables him to sink into the floor and rise with resilience.
Gallery – Motionhouse at 30
Motionhouse are celebrating their 30th anniversary and we thought it would be terrific to review and toast their success with some great pictures taken over those 30 years.
Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
2015 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Seeta Patel – Margam: A Classical Dance Recital – London
This programme is a satisfying synthesis of classical music and dance from southern India, all from performers based in the UK.
Company Chameleon – Beauty of the Beast – London
Beauty of the Beast – surely a contender for cleverest title of the year – is a fascinating study of how male behaviour evolves through the processes of their interaction.
2014 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
New Movement Collective – Please Be Seated – London
All up NMC pulled another interesting night out the bag and easy to see why they have been nominated (as Best Independent Company) in this years National Dance Awards.
Alesandra Seutin – This Is Not Black – London
The powerful stage presence of Alesandra Seutin is immediately appealing…
Gallery – Katherine Araniello’s The Dinner Party Revisited
The show that opened Umlimited, the Southbank Centre’s festival that celebrates the artistic vision and originality of disabled artists. Gallery by Dave Morgan…
Paul White – Anatomy of an Afternoon – London
It’s a really demanding work, and the intimate setting of the Purcell Room brings you up close to every drop of sweat.
Paul White – Dancer, Collaborator, Lecturer and Choreographer
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…
Lucy Guerin Inc – Untrained – London
The concept might seem as dull as ditchwater but it turns out to be anything but boring. In fact, I have rarely laughed so frequently watching dance…
