“A living language of emotion”
That’s flamenco says London Flamenco Festival director Miguel Marin, who talks to David Mead ahead of the festival’s 20th anniversary, 2025 edition
Month: May 2025
The Royal Ballet: All-Wheeldon Ballet to Broadway
Not only a super demonstration of the range of his output, but the title encapsulates neatly his journey from classical ballet to musical theatre.
Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre
One of the most beautifully danced ballets I have seen in a long while. All the dancers were both technically and expressively excellent
Acosta Danza: Cuban Eclectico
For sheer athleticism, expression and the multiple techniques of the dancers, all on show in Cuban Eclectico, they are hard to beat.
Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark
The narrative takes convoluted turns and tangents; the fine lines of the Specky’s reality an ambiguous jumble
English National Ballet: Akram Khan’s Giselle in Taipei
Erina Takahashi remains a dancer and actor par excellence. There were excellent performances all round in Taipei, but it was very much her evening.
Korea National Contemporary Dance Company: Jungle
An hour of extraordinary dance and mesmerising choreography as 16 dancers bring the jungle to the stage, to a music by Marihiko Hara.
Breakin ‘ Convention
Earplugs are handed out as hip-hop theatre legend Jonzi D demands the packed audience ‘make some big noise’ and gets the right response.
Frantic Assembly x Aurora Orchestra: Carnival
The premise of ‘Dr Frompou’s Anatomical Study of an Orchestra,’ that locked up musical instruments escape, is amusing:
Jing Wei: poetry in words, poetry in motion
Jing Wei (精衛): a coming together of dance and Chinese opera. A work of terrific imagery and superb performances. It never flags, even for a second