★★★★✰ McGregor’s company dancers (in Bach Forms) brought a surging energy, buoying up jewel-like moments from the Royal Ballet stars...
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★★★★✰ Dutch National Ballet's Dutch Doubles quad bill features 3 new works by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Ernst Meisner and Wubkje Kuindersma plus a classic piece, new to the company, from the legend that is Hans van Manen.
★★★★✰ The highlight of the second half of the programme was Mats Ek’s Pas de Danse, staged by his assistant, Pompea Santoro.
★★★★✰ Tree of Codes ...shows McGregor as an out-and-out showman who dazzles us senseless with design, music, dancers and dance. I'm not sure if he really planned it that way, but I'll take it every time.
Benjamin Millepied, the new director of the Paris Opera Ballet, made a daring choice of programme for the Christmas season at the opulent Palais Garnier opera house: a triple bill of contemporary works...
“I wanted to make a series of portraits of the dancers themselves, as opposed to dancers dancing, to show the character that underpins their performance, to see the determination and sacrifice that it takes to succeed at such a high level.” Rick Guest. What Lies Beneath A book of dancers portraits by Rick Guest Published by PUSH Print in large format, 300mm x 370mm Available at £50...
While this is a generalization, it’s safe to say the most hotly anticipated work of the night was Pite’s Polaris, set to Adès’ work of the same name.
In this revival of Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl, Watson becomes something more than a postman...
With her startling presence, Gillot manages to supply Tree of Codes with the sense of purpose it otherwise lacks.
July has just arrived and with it comes Latitude, the annual music and arts festival at Henham Park in Southwold - you might know it as ‘the one with the techni-coloured sheep'...
The programme stretches and shows off the young graduates to good advantage in a well-chosen assortment.
It’s a truism that any startlingly new dance-maker without an early elite training will have based his (or her) choreography on their own physique...
It’s not often we get such high quality performances of live music for contemporary dance. Here their playing was wonderfully focused and alive...
Works by Karole Armitage, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite and Alexander Whitley. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
...there's a strong whiff of 'experimental student' here, but there's also a good bit of talent on display.
The word transcendent gets tossed around a lot, overused, especially in the performing arts. But if one performer deserves it at this year's Fall For Dance Festival, it is Aakash Odedra.
For the past seven years, the festival’s organisers have been collaborating with Sadler’s Wells to curate a dance programme on the strikingly beautiful Waterfront Stage at the heart of the festival site...
Lise Smith with a gallery of pictures taken over the 3 days of Latitude festival. Features the following, in order of appearance: Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Ballet Revolucion, Sonia Sabri Company, James Cousins Company, English National Ballet, Candoco Dance Company and National Youth Dance Company
The competition is now closed. The winning entry has been declared and the winner contacted and put in touch with Latitude Festival. Thanks to all who entered and better luck next time if you did not win! (A free to enter competition to win a free pair of adult tickets for the Latitude Festival...)
Latitude, the summer festival for people who don’t like rolling around in the mud, is back in sunny Southwold for a ninth year...