Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Tag - Sadler’s Wells
★★★✰✰ Pavement, from 2012, takes as its touchstone the 1991 film Boyz n the Hood, John Singleton’s hard-hitting coming-of-age drama...
★★★★✰ The Darbar Festival has been celebrating Indian classical music for a number of years, but now at Sadler’s Wells it has an additional dance component curated by Akram Khan, showcasing different forms...
★★✰✰✰ Bintley’s ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café saves a dispiriting evening by providing nimble demi-character dancing with a timely message, first delivered nearly 20 years ago.
★★★✰✰ Aladdin never fully finds its feet, but there’s a lot to like about the show, from the cheery group numbers to the striking visuals.
Ballet Now is an initiative between Birmingham Royal Ballet and Sadler’s Wells to develop the (classical) choreographers, composers and designers of the future. It's a 5-year programme with 2 commissions each year, made possible by the Oak Foundation, matched BRB funding and driven by a Creative Consortium.
So how did a good Chilean boy end up dancing ballet in Europe...
★★★✰✰ The director Suzie Willson plays well with our fascination with people-watching...
★★★✰✰ Peking opera’s blend of highly stylised acting, singing, music and movement is always a feast for the senses. The costumes are reason enough to watch in themselves...
★★★★✰ How many ways can you hear the same piece of music? This inspired programme by Lyon Opera Ballet suggested, with elegant simplicity, that there are as many ways to hear something as there are people to hear it.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ ...an intriguing idea inflated into unwieldy modern dance-theatre.
Graham Watts catches up with the well connected Avatâra Ayuso who has just been appointed Associate Artist at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance...
★★★★✰ Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt’s all-male company are on sparkling form right now.
★★★✰✰ Each performance of Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography will be different, since its composition is to be determined by an algorithm based on his genetic code. ...whatever a reviewer describes will never be the same again.
The company danced the first 3 sections of Autobiography for photographers. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ Belles-Lettres – a piece by NYCB’s Justin Peck, reworked for Acosta Danza – is a sweepingly pretty pieces for nine dancers, all floaty, gorgeous frocks and increasingly impassioned duets...
★★★★★ A production that seems destined to become a masterpiece of early 21st Century contemporary ballet.
The Akram Khan version with Tamara Rojo in the lead. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★✰✰✰ The end of the world is here – let’s party. This, roughly, is the premise of Grand Finale, Hofesh Shechter’s latest wild and whirling work, in which he grapples with our apocalyptic times...