Dance up close and personal: Jamiel Devernay-Laurence talks about Ballet Nights
David Mead talks to the artistic director of Ballet Nights, a new season of dance this autumn at Lanterns Studio Theatre in London’s Canary Wharf
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Moving to pastures new: a conversation with Brandon Lawrence
“The worst thing is regret. And it’s an opportunity I can’t ignore. I don’t want to be wondering, ‘What if?’”
Returning to artistic directorship: a conversation with Cathy Marston
Marston says, she hopes to “develop and nurture a creative group of individuals, where each single dancer stands out on stage.”
“They are so rising to it.” London Children’s Ballet’s Snow White comes to the stage
“We are not treating them like kids. [They] have to put on a large-scale West End performance. We’re asking a lot of them, but they are so rising to it.”
Everything Falls Dramatic, Sung Im Her’s dance about life, death and resilience headlines the Festival of Korean Dance
She explains that the work explores the complex layering of the various forms of decay, fading and loss to which we are forever exposed…
Something special: London Children’s Ballet
We talk to Ruth Brill artistic director of London Children’s Ballet ahead of its performances of Snow White at London’s Peacock Theatre
Dance Me celebrates Leonard Cohen and his music
A conversation with Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal artistic director Alexandra Damiani. “Dance Me allows Cohen’s music and songs to shine.”
Ballet meets folk
A conversation with Debbie Norris, founder and artistic director of Ballet Folk, whose The Tears of Jenny Greenteeth is on in London on February 2
Stina Quagebeur talks Take Five Blues and making dance
The extended version has kept the upbeat, uplifting feel of the original, with the nature of the music is as important as ever, she says
Men in Motion returns. A conversation with creator, Ivan Putrov
“It all began with a dream, I guess,” says Putrov, who explains that then, as now, the idea was to showcase the development of men in ballet
A picture of people who breathe and feel, suffer and love: Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land comes to Birmingham Royal Ballet
In conversation with the choreographer’s assistant, Cora Bos-Kroese, ahead to the company’s first ever staging of a Kylián work