An East-West dialogue about love
Taiwan’s U-Theatre and Berlin’s Rundfunkchor in a fascinating and totally absorbing East meets West meeting
Month: February 2016
Körper: Sasha Waltz at the Royal Swedish Ballet
Bodies decorate the surface, the climb and fall using the height, the length and all spaces.
Searing action on an extraordinary journey: Mark Bruce Company in The Odyssey
Terrific. Crammed full of drama. The action glides seamlessly.
Jenna Roberts shines in Romeo and Juliet
Her awakening to love, her agonies at being forced to marry and her despair…marvellous
Tastes of dance from Taiwan coming to London and Birmingham
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集), and it’s younger, lively cousin, Cloud Gate 2 (雲門2) are both due this year.
Searching for a path through postmodern dance
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz in Partita 2 in Stockholm
Birmingham Royal Ballet triumph in an Ashton double
The Dream and A Month in the Country. “A triumph.”
English National Ballet to perform Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
English National Ballet release their Autumn 2016 and Spring 2017 programmes
Three world and one European premiere in Dutch National Ballet’s 2016-2017 season
A packed season with much must-see dance.
Sara Baras returns to flamenco’s roots
Voces, Suite Flamenca is a more traditional offering than we are used to from Sara Baras…
Violette Verdy: A French poodle amongst borzois
Not many people are alive now who saw Violette Verdy dance. Born Nelly Armande Guillerm in Northern France in 1933…