The Rural Touring Dance Initiative proves a gateway to new dance audiences
An in-depth survey shows touring dance to small local venues is alive and well, and loved by practitioners and audiences alike.
Maggie Foyer
Fine dance with a dash of comedy in an English National Ballet School’s mixed-bill
The four new works covered classical and contemporary dance while also allowing the dancers to show their presentation and comedy skills.
Royal Ballet School Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme
Maggie Foyer attended the launch of the new Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme in mid-February and now casts her eye over it.
Determinedly different: T.H.E Dance Company in PheNoumenon
The intimacy of the eccentric Coronet Theatre suited this company of six dancers from Singapore and its programme well
Acosta Danza, 100% Cuban
The programme brims with life and love of dance. It has broad-based audience appeal with plenty of virtuosity, competition and depth.
A beacon of joy: Luca Silvestrini’s Protein in The Little Prince
It turns the black box theatre space into a universe of imaginative ideas… a thoroughly enjoyable journey
Inspiring: Akram Khan’s Chotto Xenos
The hardcore centre of the work is played out on the battlefield but it is bookended by more profound moments of birth and something of a rebirth.
Humanity at its most vulnerable: Akram Khan’s Xenos
At this time of heightened awareness of our environment and mortality, Xenos proves indisputably that art is what makes us human
Elemental rawness: Akram Khan’s Outwitting the Devil
Each of the six dancers has an original movement quality, harnessing the energy of a coiled spring and combining fluidity and strength
Animation meets live action dance in a modern retelling of Coppélia
Inspired by Ted Brandsen’s witty 2008 production for Dutch National Ballet, dancers and a slick corps of female robots share the big screen
Ballet Cymru: Made in Wales
Poems and Tiger Eggs is well described as a love letter to iconic Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas