★★★✰✰ Northern Ballet just premiered Drew McOnie's Merlin at Nottingham's Theatre Royal. Lots of Arthurian plot and lots of visual spectacle...
Tag - So You Think You Can Dance
★★★✰✰ The idea of setting a story about a refugee family to the songs of Sting was inevitably an enforced marriage of his diverse lyrics with a narrative for which they were never intended.
★★★✰✰ This was indeed a case of Up Close and personal with five intimate pieces variously dosed with Cuban fire and flair...
★★★★✰ Some Like it Hip Hop is full of quirky humour, great music and dance, enjoying top-notch performances throughout the whole cast of sixteen.
★★★★✰ ...the event is less about showing off the talents of dancers and their teachers than celebrating their hard work and dedication.
★★✰✰✰ Like all galas, this was quite a mixed bag. Over 200 students trooped on and offstage in a veritable tornado of activity before the veteran YAGP dancers stepped out for the showstopping stuff...
★★★✰✰ "Untapped! is a cheap and cheerful, mildly rowdy show which puts a spring in one’s step."
...one can’t help but admire the torrent of ideas bouncing around Tharp’s brain...
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.
It would appear that Blaze is to hip hop as Burn the Floor has been to the popularity of ballroom and Latin...
The gulf between commercial dance – the kind one sees in TV ads, music videos, and on shows like So You Think You Can Dance – and theatrical dance is disconcerting....
In short, it was foot-tapping fun!