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Month: October 2024
Serge Aimé Coulibaly’s Balau in Munich
“…Physical expression that hit me like a visceral experience. The performance jabbed deep into the emotions…”
Fairy Tales by POCKETART
Fairy Tales reckons with delusions; delusions of our past, or perhaps the tales we tell ourselves to survive the present.
RB Dance Company: Stories
The company’s eighteen dancers, all multi-talented, command the stage, the audience, and leave an indelible impression
The Royal Ballet in Encounters: Four Contemporary Ballets
For all the good work that goes before, the undoubted highlight of the evening is Crystal Pite’s The Statement.
vildwerk.: conservation meets dance
A marriage between dance, conservation and wildlife experts. “The dance…was largely very pleasing… The dancing right out of the top drawer.”
Nutcracker in Havana: “Authentic but different” promises Carlos Acosta
Choreographer-director Carlos Acosta, and video and set designer Nina Dunn, talk about Acosta Danza’s forthcoming new Nutcracker in Havana
American Ballet Theatre: Innovation Past and Present
World premieres by Gemma Bond and Kyle Abraham, whose complex and unpedictable Mercurial Son “has lots to see and lots to like”
Abby Z and the New Utility: Radioactive Practice
Mesmerising, infuriating, and riveting in turns, Radioactive Practice is an hour of almost completely silent physical exertion by six performers.
Lost Dog: Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
Plenty of humour as Sharif Afifi portrays a God with all our human vulnerabilities.
New York City Ballet: All-Peck
Everywhere We Go is a ballet that’s never forgets its classical roots, but ballet that’s also very ‘of today.’ The sort of ballet that makes you want to return.