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Clod Ensemble - Zero - Sadler's Wells
Clod Ensemble’s Zero is a tragedy in five acts which takes inspiration from the blues, weather patterns and human relationships. Each act is introduced by a weather forecast.. Continue Reading
Clod Ensemble - Zero - Sadler's Wells
As a concept, Zero is vivid with possibilities, but, frustratingly, Willson’s choreography brings it to only intermittent life.
ATMA/Mayuri Boonham - Erhebung - Rich Mix
'Erbhebung' is a quietly bold work: introspective and poetic, it makes its own rather unique mark on the landscape of modern Indian dance... Continue Reading
Birthday Rites - Chisenhale Dance Space
I wonder if Mercier’s literally punchy approach to 'Rite' could be the most flat-out original & daring of all the versions lately staged in London... Continue Reading
Meryl Tankard - The Oracle -Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
Tankard focuses as much on the smallest of gestures as on great leaps and twists; shudders of the body, the momentary lifting of a foot, the agonised spasms of fingers count for as much as White’s bursts of violent physicality. It is a brilliant concept, superbly executed
Wilkie Branson & Sally Cookson - Varmints - Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
There is much to enjoy and admire here. The cast are genuinely engaging and perform with real verve.
Nobody's Baby - Dance Marathon
At Greenwich Dance this week, 10 performers are set to dance for a 100 hours in a 1930s style dance marathon. It's all part of the research for a new Arthur Pita production - and you can drop in, or watch online Continue Reading
Cojocaru & Kobborg - last London performances this week
Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg have announced they will leave The Royal Ballet at the end of the 2012/13 season - they dance together for last time at the ROH in 'Mayerling' this Wednesday... Continue Reading
European Aerial Dance Festival in Brighton this August
Fancy a flying trip to Brighton? The European Aerial Dance Festival (EADF), is back in Brighton this summer (5-11 August 2013), presented by Gravity & Levity in association with South East Dance and Brighton… Continue Reading
Meryl Tankard - The Oracle -Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
He is the kind of dancer who is so finely in control of every muscle that he can actually move with complete freedom. He inhabits Stravinsky’s score, not just rhythmically but as if plugging into the deep roots of those clashing, crashing chords and their story of sa…
Meryl Tankard - The Oracle -Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
This is a mighty, and mightily disturbing piece, even – perhaps especially – when it has finished and the cathartic applause begins... Continue Reading
Akram Khan Company - iTMOi - Sadler's Wells
The rigours of Stravinsky’s compositions, their unfailing clarity and motive power, their grandeur and suitability for dancing – as Balanchine proved – are everywhere ignored in this stupefying exercise in guess-work.
Meryl Tankard - The Oracle -Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
White’s movements becomes distorted and hobbled, a piercing parallel of Nijinsky’s retreat into madness. And in his final, lung-bursting, convulsive leap, we can almost believe White is channelling Nijinsky’s performances of Petrushka, a tormented sou…
Royal Ballet - Raven Girl/Symphony in C - Royal Opera House
Raven Girl has structural issues, but moment to moment it’s still a delight. I loved Cowley’s masked and darkly glinting Raven, and Lamb’s remote, mysterious glamour is perfectly deployed in the title role.
Royal Ballet - Raven Girl/Symphony in C - Royal Opera House
Sarah Lamb was sure and smiling in the opening allegro vivo; Yuhui Choe and Steven McRae sparkled in the third moment; and there was a luminous adagio from Marianela Nuñez