The opening and closing pieces showed how skilfully Cohan responds to dancers whose training and experience are very different from the Graham-based technique on which he drew for many decades.
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Heralding the celebrations of Robert Cohan’s 90th anniversary year Yolande Yorke-Edgell’s enterprising company, founded in 2009, is touring a programme, Figure Ground, containing two of his works.
The unifying theme in this double bill is muddled realities, with 2Faced's five resident dancers, all men, tackling two surreal and drastically different works...
This year‘s highlight was an exuberant piece from Marcelino Sambé which provided a lively closer to an otherwise rather downbeat programme.
I'm a sucker for a children's show. The audience are just as demanding as grownups but there is the additional frisson of not knowing what they will get up to if excited... or just bored stiff.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2014 took place today in London at The Place’s Robin Howard Dance Theatre.
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Featuring works by Rambert dancers Patricia Okenwa, Luke Ahmet, Simone Damberg Wurtz, Dane Hurst and Pierre Tappon.
Featuring works by Rambert dancers Luke Ahmet, Simone Damberg Wurtz, Dane Hurst, Patricia Okenwa and Pierre Tappon. Gallery by Dave Morgan.
...along with a decent whack of technical precision, the dancers and musicians peppered their performances with dashes of creative flair and energy galore.
“Turn every disadvantage into an advantage.” This is the advice Dane Hurst has for aspiring dancers looking for encouragement...
This two-part bill, my first introduction to James Cousins’ work, could hardly have left me with a more positive impression of the young choreographer,
Company Chameleon take a long hard look at what it means today to be a man (or maybe that should be what it means to be a bloke) in Beauty Of The Beast.
The Place’s adventurous four-day Currency Festival aims for the quirky in its mix of dance and circus acts from across Europe...
...there's a strong whiff of 'experimental student' here, but there's also a good bit of talent on display.
...Like Rabbits is a clever work that burrows under your skin...
I should have known better. Going to a Wendy Houstoun gig with a pre-conceived notion of what to expect is indeed a pact with pointlessness.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The reality is that the work's central premise – that we are all irredeemably bad at understanding or respecting one another – seems to have greater resonance today than at any point since the bad old days...