How are you? Tjimur Dance Theatre in bulabulay mun?
With a very open-minded approach… Baru Madiljin weaves ancestral memory and still lingering historical scars into the dancers’ bodies and emotions.
David Mead
National Dance Company Wales: Surge
Three very different works set in three very different worlds. All showcase the company terrifically… and in Mabon, something uniquely Welsh.
Jan Martens: Voice Noise
Sometimes the dance is very much at one with the music, not so much adding layers or illustrating it, but being pushed and pulled by it.
Motionhouse in Hidden
The two-act, full-length work impressed greatly at its premiere back in February but on the much larger Hippodrome stage it looked even better
An ode to Taiwan: Taipei Capital Ballet in Echoes from Afar
Deeply ingrained with mood and imagery, the whispers of nature and history… evokes pictures of the island, its nature… and its people.
Taiwan’s Tjimur Dance Theatre visit with bulabulay mun? (How are you?)
Baru Madiljin explains that, while the work does not describe what happened over 150 years ago, he hopes viewers will feel fragments of memories
We Caliban: Shobana Jeyasingh’s sideways look at The Tempest
A work that both fascinates and confuses, and that shows Caliban, danced strikingly by Raúl Reinoso Acanda, from a very different perspective.
English National Ballet in R:Evolution
David Dawson’s Four Last Songs: sleek, extremely physical and emotional… Poetry in motion, it is utterly, utterly gorgeous.
Dinner Party: pulling back the curtain on relationships
An exploration of the relationships between five couples… visited in turn, each conversation heard in recorded text, seen in dance.
New York City Ballet: Donizetti Variations, Ballade, Swan Lake
A pleasing, if unexciting evening. While nicely danced, it would be fair to say that none of the three ballets are out of Balanchine’s top drawer.
Fall for Dance Program 3: Two pas de deux, postmodern dance and something of today
Fall for Dance Program 3 with Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand of Paris Opera Ballet, Gibney Dance, and Roderick George/kNoname Artist