★★★★✰ The physicality of 5 Soldiers during the hour-long performance brings home the breaking of bodies...
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★★✰✰✰ This story sounds a lot more interesting than it played out on stage where... it was one long bore, punctuated occasionally by some arresting dance sequences.
★★★★✰ The thunderous finale pulls all the threads together with the entire cast on stage playing and dancing in a riotous sonic adventure.
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★★★✰✰ By far the best of this production - more musical theatre, than dance – was the outstanding score and songbook from Ella Spira...
★★★✰✰ This is a project with serious intent – but it doesn’t always have the wherewithal to meet its grand ambition.
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★★★✰✰ Mats Ek’s "Axe" could be the beginning to a new Scandi Noir TV series. There is a man, an axe, a huge pile of wood that he starts to chop with repressed intensity and a visibly distressed wife. It doesn’t look like it will end well.
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★★★★★ The programme ended with a revival of the ebullient and uplifting Gypsy Mixture...
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★★★★★ It’s utterly captivating, full of unexpected, joyous exuberance.
★★★★✰ Both are pre-existing ensemble works, the performers virtually anonymous on stage, though named on cast sheets: the company is the star, not the soloists.
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★★★★★ This is Khan’s own personal story, but it achieves a much wider resonance about how we can learn to reconcile ourselves to our past, and to acknowledge where and what we come from as we mature.
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We talk to two of the three artistic directors of Nora about what makes them tick and touring their latest bill - "Nora invites Aggiss, Burrows, Fargion and Tanguy".
This years finalist were: Aitor Arrieta, Isabelle Brouwers, Rina Kanehara, Madison Keesler, Guilherme Menezes and Emilio Pavan...
★★★✰✰ M¡longa has a lot of spirit to offer when it lets the dance take the lead.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer Competition is unique in British ballet in throwing the spotlight on more junior dancers or “tomorrow’s stars” as ENB put it. This year's competition is on the 25 May and ahead of the that we talk to 4 of the 6 finalists - Isabelle Brouwers, Rina Kanehara, Madison Keesler and Guilherme Menezes...