Dance at the Latitude Festival 2015 - Sara Veale with a full report...
Tag - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Sara Veale catches up with Jane Hackett, director of National Youth Dance Company, ahead of NYDC’s performance at Latitude Festival on 19 July.
In the genealogy of dance, kathak and flamenco share common ancestry.
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'...
Do catch it if you want to enjoy the energy and shared commitment of its young performers.
Gallery of pictures by Stephen Wright
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Overall, while an interesting night for them and those who know them, it wasn't a night that would garner them lots of new fans all hailing them as magnificent. For that you still need to catch them, if you can, doing their fireworks in the likes of Don Quixote...
It’s a very satisfying package of liquid, sinuous movement delivered by idiosyncratic and characterful performers.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Including a low-key pilot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2012, the 'Flash Mob' brand is now into its third iteration, and I must immediately confess to liking this show less than either of its predecessors.
This was a tremendous show with which to close the Birmingham International Dance Festival of 2014.
All up it's an entertaining and chic-looking take on Swan Lake, and one where you don't have to know the original to enjoy it. But I'm glad I have seen a pukka Swan Lake or three...
Alain Platel was inspired to make this work by the life of an elderly Brazilian woman named Estamira. Suffering from schizophrenia, yet charismatic and philosophical, she lived on a municipal rubbish dump...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
No sets – just glorious lighting designs playing essential roles in the performances.
This is not Cherkaoui’s most successfully realised work but his affection and respect for tango shine through, and the dancers are a joy to watch.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
This run is very brief. Let’s hope it returns.
20 pictures by Foteini Christofilopoulou...