In short, it was foot-tapping fun!
Tag - Sadler’s Wells
STOP PRESS - SERGEI POLUNIN is performing... Yorkshire Ballet Summer School is set to celebrate its 40th anniversary this year with a star-studded, glamorous gala evening at Sadler’s Wells on Sunday September 29th.
I said it was the must-see show of the year in 2008, and – while there are a lot of great musicals now around in the West End today - this is still one that must be seen.
Still, with its thrilling, threatening and ultimately uplifting mood and its rock-gig presentation, Political Mother makes a wholly appropriate closer for Sadler’s audience-grabbing Sampled season.
Sadler's Sampled is back - with 6 companies showing the glorious breadth of dance that will be on at the theatre over the next few months.
What Merce Cunningham devised as an Event, William Forsythe calls a Study. In both cases, the choreographer has combined selections from his back catalogue to make a ‘new’ work...
The excellence of this work comes not just with Khan’s own enormous creativity and his tour-de-force performance but in the seamless integration of the inputs of his collaborative team...
But, this quibble aside, Zero provides yet more evidence of Willson and Clark continually pushing the boundaries of Clod Ensemble’s work into adventurous explorations.
No-one could have expected this to be another once-in-a-lifetime explosion of genius but this is nevertheless a ground-breaking work.
20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
At the end of Bye, a man nearby leapt to his feet and shouted “awesome”. She sure is.
The ballet succeeds most in its incidental scenes – though everything is presented fortissimo. Most clever is the way in which Nixon depicts Myrtle and George Wilson ...The performances of Benjamin Mitchell and Victoria Sibson were the strongest of the evening.
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Dave Morgan: Alina Cojocaru Gala – Preparations and Rehearsals – 30 pictures
These are pics of the preparations and practise runs in the afternoon before the show. Many thanks to Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg for allowing us access.
...the crowds – from the six-year-old toprocking on stage for a prize t-shirt to the octogenarian gentleman seated next to me in polite raptures – were most definitely entertained.
5 Questions to Sarah Crompton about her new book "Sadler's Wells - Dance House"
Each revisiting seems to offer up more than the sum of its parts, giving these former works a new and exciting lease of life
This run is very brief. Let’s hope it returns.
20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Rojo has declared that her ambition as artistic director of ENB is to make audiences hold their breath. I certainly did during Le Jeune Homme et la Mort...
The result is oddly old-fashioned - even more so than John Cranko’s version, which the Canadians had performed since 1964.