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Tag - Sadler’s Wells
★★★★✰ Born a Shadow: Compañía Rafaela Carrasco’s inspired show had a powerful narrative drive.
★★★✰✰ Ímpetus promised a mix of modern ballet with traditional flamenco, a show shaped by new interpretations of classic Spanish music...
★★★★✰ Rarely have I witnessed a prolonged standing ovation midway through a show but it happened here to acknowledge the legendary gypsy bailaora from Barcelona, known as La Chana.
★★★★✰ In each section of Painter and Flamenco the dancers personify not only the spirit and energy of de Torres’ portraits but also the poetry of his art.
Claudia de Serpa Soares is performing with Sasha Waltz & Guests in Körper on the 1 – 3 March 2018 at London’s Sadler’s Wells – full details www.facebook.com/claudia.d.soares.52 www.sashawaltz.de www.sadlerswells.com Sasha Waltz & Guests return to Sadler’s Wells with the extraordinary Korper, a work which scrutinizes the physical body from multiple social...
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★★★✰✰ Yo Carmen was originally billed as a radical reimagining of Bizet’s opera and that’s not exactly the case. Don’t go along to this thinking that you will see any representation of the story with gypsies and bullfighters, or any male characters dancing.
★★★★★ This was flamenco puro in its most fabulous form, dominated – as it should be – by the voice, led by three of the most celebrated of today’s star flamenco singers. It doesn’t get much better.
★★★★✰ It's impossible to make coherent sense of a Bausch piece, whatever the source of her inspiration.
Next month (March 2018) Ballet British Columbia, or Ballet BC as they are commonly known, tour the UK. Diane Parkes talks to artistic director Emily Molnar about the company and the works they are touring which includes a piece by the ultra-hot Crystal Pite...
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Featuring: NDT2 (Nederlands Dans Theater 2), Jodelle Douglas, Jesus Carmona, Humanhood, Zenaida Yanowsky, Candoco and Yeah Yellow. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou.
★★★★★ Of all the shows I've seen this year this probably had the least dance content and yet as a package it really delivers on the wonder and thoughtful difference that theatre can make to all our lives. Charmed I was...
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet...
★★★✰✰ While the production is supremely stylish and the characters well-observed with expressive and romantic choreography, the narrative is padded out in order to fill the music, particularly where traditional elements of "Cinderella" have been excised.
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★★★✰✰ This is Swan Lake in name only. There is no Tchaikovsky... there are no tutus... there is no-one called Odette, Odile, Siegfried or Rothbart, although there are several characters called McLoughlin...
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