Wayne Parsons Dance – Meeting, Vestige – London
★★★✰✰ Although I haven’t seen Parsons’ work before, I can see very quickly why it’s riveting.
James Finnemore, Alleyne Dance – TERRA, A Night’s Game – London
James Finnemore: TERRA Alleyne Dance: A Night’s Game ★★★✰✰ London, The Place 24 April 2018 www.jamesfinnemore.co.uk www.alleynedance.com For some reason, the intended (or, at least, promoted) order of this double bill was reversed…
Uchenna Dance – The Head Wrap Diaries – London
★★★★✰ Hair is a fraught subject for most women. For black women, the struggle with their locks (braids, weaves, relaxed or natural) can be titanic – getting your hair done can be a day-long ordeal…
Richard Alston Dance Company – Mid Century Modern, Carnaval, Cut and Run – London
★★★★★ It must be tempting to get carried away by sentiment when it comes to celebrating both a 70th birthday and fifty years as a choreographer in a programme that also marks the departure of a special muse.
Tilted Productions – Constructions of Thin Air – London
★★★✰✰ Constructions of Air evocatively suggests our relationship with the past, our own histories, memories and how we make sense of change.
Gallery – Place Resolution 2018: Counterpoint Dance Company in Journeys of Internal Migration
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Amy Bell – The Forecast – London
★★★★✰ Bell’s brave work although addressing us all in our fluctuating states of being, speaks out especially to queer women, non-binary and trans people.
New Writers on New Dance at Place Resolution 2018 (part 2)
Part 2 features reviews by Emma Boxall, Coral Montejano Cantoral, Emma Iskowitz and Francesca Marotto…
Gallery – Place Resolution 2018: Christina Dionysopoulou – Stigma
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
New Writers on New Dance at Place Resolution 2018 (part 1)
Part 1 features reviews by Stephanie Brown, Chloe Fordham, Daisy Moorcroft and Natalie Russett…
Watts Dance, Grov Productions and Duwane Taylor – Place Resolution 2018
★★★✰✰ Duwane Taylor’s “It’s Time to Speak”… is powerful theatre that left a lump in many of our throats at the end.
Gallery – Place Resolution 2018: Watts Dance in Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
Gallery – Place Resolution 2018: Lucy Palmer Dance in The Left Hand Path
Gallery by Lidia Crisafulli…
Memorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet…
LIVEVIBE at The Place – Samples & Interpolations – London
★★★✰✰ What to take away from this evening? It seemed odd to present sampling as something that needed explaining – but maybe that’s me showing my age.
