★★★✰✰ Is this depiction of divisive ‘insider/outsider’ British society really a true reflection?
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★★✰✰✰ The opening scene of The North, a new dance theatre work from Dundee-based troupe Joan Clevillé Dance, starts with a scene plucked straight from a Scandi noir...
★★✰✰✰ Igor and Moreno warn people in the programme notes for Andante that there will be smoke and perfume – lots of it.
★★✰✰✰ It started sedately enough, with the three men and three women emerging in stretchy black dresses...
★★✰✰✰ Beautiful, calming imagery is not in the vocabulary of Anatomie.
★★★★✰ Testory is a phenomenal story teller; confessional and intimate, I could listen to his lilting intonations forever.
★★★✰✰ It is a fascinating show, especially if you can bear to stand in warm surroundings for an hour...
The Place Retains Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation Status And Launches Ambitious New Producing And Touring Model. Also more touring by Richard Alston Dance Company...
★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★✰✰ Both are bold, engaging commissions – always welcome from a regional UK dance troupe.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Men and Girls Dance is a touching and joyful demonstration of optimism about us humans in an increasingly bleak age.
★★★✰✰ If you like to keep an arm’s distance between you and the contemporary dance you’re watching, then Vera Tussing is probably not for you.
Gallery by Stephen Wright...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Cousins has made a bold, complex, intelligent and invigorating piece...
★★★★✰ Those of a nervous disposition, look away now. The dark, twisted inventiveness of Arthur Pita runs riot across this double-bill of bad parenting, sweeping up murder, suicide, incest and a little light cannibalism as it goes.
Gallery by Stephen Wright...
★★★✰✰ The one thing you can be assured of when you step over the threshold of the Place's Resolution season is surprise.
Gallery by Lidia Crisafulli...