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Avant Garde Dance & Early Opera Company - Monteverdi Ballets - Village Underground
You wouldn’t necessary associate a hip hop dance troupe with the baroque madrigals of Monteverdi, but 'Monteverdi Ballets' is all about a collision of historical periods & musical styles... Continue Reading
Honours for dance
The Queen's Birthday Honours list, announced last weekend included several individuals recognised for their services to dance... Continue Reading
Avant Garde Dance & Early Opera Company - Monteverdi Ballets - Village Underground
Drawing on the poised, muscle cracking movements of capoeira and tai chi and the fierce, abrupt jabs and gestures of mutated street dance, it is a densely-textured piece that provides an effective physical response to the music. If individual sequences are hard to inte…
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
Study # 3 certainly provokes a typically Forsythean mix of exhilaration and alienation. It sometimes feels more like an extended study than a piece, and you certainly have to work at it; but its strange alchemy also works wonders.
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
It can be chin-stroking work, that of William Forsythe, but even when it’s mildly irritating you can see there’s always a brain at work and some awesome bodies too.
Forsythe Company - N.N.N.N / Study #3 - Sadler's Wells
Study #3 is a collation of 30 years of his work with Ballet Frankfurt (1984-2004) and The Forsythe Company (2005 – the present). Cherry-picking from his past, he has somehow managed to distil the essence of his choreographic journey into a work that is less a Bes…
You too can dance with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas!
- just one of the free fringe events at Sadler's Sampled - the two week taster festival of dance, starting at Sadler's Wells this weekend... Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Mayerling - Royal Opera House
But much more extraordinary on Saturday was the completeness with which she was able to channel the self-absorbed and self-destructive force of Vetsera’s personality. It was a force that vibrated through every second of Benjamin’s performance:
English National Ballet - Swan Lake -Royal Albert Hall 2013
Tamara Rojo is starry and poignant as Odette, and sumptuously assured as her alter ego Odile. Her Prince is Matthew Golding, a guest artist from Dutch National Ballet. A dancer of crystalline finish, with a soaring jump and turns of impeccable precision,
English National Ballet - Swan Lake -Royal Albert Hall 2013
The 60 swans who fill the vast arena are certainly a remarkable sight, almost Hitchcockian in their relentless fluttering and swooping. The happy ending, which sees evil Rothbart spontaneously combust down a hole in the stage, is probably the right one in this context.
English National Ballet - Swan Lake - Royal Albert Hall 2013
Even if Deane’s arena-style choreography veers towards Busby Berkeley mechanics, he is very good at keeping the focus of the dance revolving, so that no section of the circular auditorium is stuck with a back view for too long.
Mariinsky Ballet, Swan Lake live 3D cinema screening
The glittering first-act trio prompted spontaneous applause in the cinema – some of it, no doubt, tinged with pride at a fine showing from the young British dancer Xander Parish. Predictably, though, it was the lakeside scenes, with their hallucinogenic patterns cre…
English National Ballet - Swan Lake - Royal Albert Hall 2013
On opening night, Tamara Rojo’s Swan Queen had the charisma to fill the whole space.
English National Ballet - Swan Lake -Royal Albert Hall 2013
If there is a discernible arrogance to her performance, indicated by the almost contemptuous flip of the wrists on a perfect finish, it is forgivable. As Odile, the Black Swan, she oozes “femme fatalery”, not only completing the 32 fouettés with ease but managing …
Akram Khan Company - Desh - Sadler's Wells
Performance reviewed: 11 June Curtain up, a pitch-black stage, a swinging single lantern and the deafening smash of a sledgehammer beating, metal against metal – a clash of culture. This is Desh, (homeland in … Continue Reading