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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“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.”
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
Curious and questioning: Jasmin Vardimon on her new ALiCE
A conversation with Jasmin Vardimon about her new production, ALiCE, and a look at her company’s fabulous new creative hub in Ashford, Kent.
Six female choreographers and a rock ballet
A conversation with New English Ballet Theatre founder and artistic director Karen Pilkington-Miksa about the company’s summer 2022 season.
The Royal Ballet School moves into recreational ballet training with a new Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme
The new Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme gives dance teachers responsibility for guiding and assessing their own students’ learning
Exploring the possibilities: dance and new technologies
The European Dance Hackathon: about thinking about the dance of tomorrow; to imagine the future of dance by combining it with new technologies
McNicol Ballet Collective presents Awakenings
The new Awakenings programme features four works by McNicol himself, all inspired by music, among them a brand-new, reimagined version of Firebird.