★★★✰✰ Trying to understand a holistic approach to the narrative was like compiling a jigsaw where some of the pieces are missing and others don’t fit.
Tag - Wilton’s Music Hall
Lynette Halewood with some reflections on London dance performances over the last year - the good and the less good...
★★★★✰ Falling Man is a huge achievement, performed with intensity and charisma, and we really need to see it again in our theatres.
★★✰✰✰ The show at Wilton's Music Hall, produced and directed by former ballerina Viviana Durante, was originally billed as The Seven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht...
Semperoper Ballett Dresden were another new visitor in the summer, with a programme of Forsythe works, some not seen here before. But Forsythe is a theme this year in himself.
★★★✰✰ Violence lurks in every corner of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, from supernatural malevolence to visceral carnage. Mark Bruce’s new take on the production taps into classic horror tropes to animate this force...
★★★★✰ Lithuania punches well above its weight as a propagator of modern dance and it is a pleasure and a privilege to have one of its leading cultural exports based here in the UK.
★★★✰✰ There were times in the hour-long performance when the sensory overload kicked in and one started to be more conscious of the heat inside the chapel...
★★★✰✰ Some titles for triple bills can be generic or aspirational rather than specific, but "Ham and Passion" is exactly what you get in this programme from DeNada Dance Theatre.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ The work is proof that inventiveness is more important than a huge budget.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ This is a bold project, crammed with incident and detail, and highly atmospheric.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Award winning Mark Bruce has just unveiled his latest work - The Odyssey - based on Homer's epic poem. But circumstances around the premiere have put the company through their own testing odyssey, if we were tantalised and enthralled by what we saw...
Strike! Dance Festival Ieva Kuniskis: He Lived Next Door Jack Webb: Inside Opulence London, Wilton’s Music Hall 25 September 2014 www.ievakuniskis.com www.jackwebbperformance.com wiltons.org.uk Wilton’s Strike! Dance Festival page It must follow that more is sometimes less. Jack Webb’s Inside Opulence was billed to last ‘(approx.): 30 minutes’ and we should have taken more note of the...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year...
This production, in this place, is about as good as it gets. If it doesn’t win a slew of awards for Mark Bruce and his team then I might just have to go walking around those East End Alleys in search of the vampire bride!
The ethereal impact is greatly enhanced by atmospheric lighting, smoke, the sound of bells and the sundry, diverse smells of devotion in this old Grade-1 Listed Victorian church.