...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...
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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.
Like ENB at large, the eight finalists for 2015 are a noticeably international bunch, representing Germany, America, Ukraine, Brazil, China and the UK between them.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
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.
Full Details of the 2014 / 15 Season...
What do the major faiths and religions have to say about disability and how do they treat the differently abled? Claire Cunningham's 'Guide Gods' shines a light...
Gallery by Dave Morgan... Claire Cunningham's Guide Gods is part of Umlimited, the Southbank Centre’s festival that celebrates the artistic vision and originality of disabled artists.
...this show’s greatest sleight of hand is to have constructed a truly professional, West End-worthy production from the performances of young, amateur dancers, under the age of 19.
If there’s a linking rationale between the sequences, other than one of physical contrasts, it’s not evident. Lecavalier cannot fail to be riveting because of her compelling presence, as androgynous as David Bowie, as vulnerable as Wendy Houstoun...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Shobana Jeyasingh has been celebrating her 25 years in dance during 2013 and this special anniversary is here marked by a double bill that presents works from the opposite ends of her dance company’s timeline.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Booty Looting isn't afraid of opening a rabbit-hole or two in its exposition of performance and visual art; almost everything in the show refers to itself in a never-ending loop that will either delight or madden its audiences.
"A visit from Ultima Vez is something special" says Lise Smith interviewing its founder and choreographer, Wim Vandekeybus, about his latest project, 'booty Looting', a collaboration with photographer Danny Willems and which opens at London's Southbank next week - 12 November...
There is surely something excellent lurking within this work, the intent of which I have failed to perceive, but I will just have to wait for The Choreographer’s next Cut to get it.
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...
It’s a virtuoso accomplishment by all the collaborators. ...But Stravinsky’s score in this melodramatic recording, conducted by Kent Nagano, is too huge for a single figure.
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg have announced they will leave The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2012/13 season to pursue other artistic challenges.