Dancers should be allowed to have fun, especially when they've worked as hard as Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova...
Tag - Wayne McGregor
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'...
These are dancers worth following in a wide repertory of works; it’s a shame to see them go while feeling we’ve barely gotten to know them better.
There was no rest for the weary at the Joyce on Tuesday night, where Polish National Ballet whipped through its New York debut with an adrenalin-packed program.
The final triple bill of the Royal Ballet’s season reverts to its founder’s faith in classical ballet as an expressive language.
Days after BBC Young Dancer made its first successful appearance on TV people are still talking about it...
Woolf Works is a chimera, an illusory creation made up of disparate elements...
Onwards and Upwards we say to the great Juliet Burnett – who writes wonderful blogs for DanceTabs. Media Release from The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet farewells Senior Artist Juliet Burnett After 12 wonderful years with The Australian Ballet, Senior Artist Juliet Burnett has announced that she will leave the company on Friday 12 June, following her performance in the lead role of...
Wayne McGregor's latest work for The Royal Ballet gets photographed by Dave Morgan...
Margaret Willis has just been in St. Petersburg, catching up with the Dance Open Festival and also visiting the Vaganova Academy where she had some words with director Nikolai Tsiskaridze...
It’s a truism that any startlingly new dance-maker without an early elite training will have based his (or her) choreography on their own physique...
All three performances brought home the fact that this is a very strong company with the skills to perform any choreography that comes its way...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Both Royal Ballet premieres, one by Kim Brandstrup, the other by Liam Scarlett, were surely keepers, bound to be seen again.
...a show that is all about simply feeling good and being part of an event rather than just a spectator.
Although juxtaposed with several new and recently revived productions, Alvin Ailey's Revelations looks just as good now as it did 10, 15, or even 20 years ago, and probably looks just as good as it did at its premiere, way back in 1960.
By the end, I felt our journey of discovery had involved driving down one of those long, straight, interminable cross-American highways, with nothing but the same prairieland in view.
It’s not often we get such high quality performances of live music for contemporary dance. Here their playing was wonderfully focused and alive...
Works by Karole Armitage, Wayne McGregor, Crystal Pite and Alexander Whitley. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
The word transcendent gets tossed around a lot, overused, especially in the performing arts. But if one performer deserves it at this year's Fall For Dance Festival, it is Aakash Odedra.