Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones
The combination of Christopher Bruce and Leonard Cohen in Troubadour produces a dance magic of the sort rarely seen, spellbinding and unforgettable
The combination of Christopher Bruce and Leonard Cohen in Troubadour produces a dance magic of the sort rarely seen, spellbinding and unforgettable
The dancers are committed and the themes are ambitious. What I miss is not effort, but clarity.
A coming together of Swan Lake and the ill-fated King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a troubled dreamer renowned for building castles and his homosexuality
Three works that approach dance from very different directions. Movement functioned as performance, but also a way of listening, gathering and questioning
Christopher Hampson’s version of the Snow Queen for Scottish Ballet is like a breath of fresh air. A terrifically entertaining spectacle,
All three pieces show performers with ability and intent, but none of them offers a thread I can follow.
From theatrical storytelling, to an intimate duet built around physical touch, to an abstract collaboration between movement and installation
Even the afterlife offers no freedom, only a different choreography of obedience. In this Giselle, death is not release. It is relocation.
Some works appear fully formed, while others feel provisional, still in dialogue with larger ideas yet to come… energy emerges as a shared currency
In Interchange, Seirian Griffiths’ choreography of dance, gymnastics and more is totally absorbing… grace, fluidity and tremendous technical skill
Across the evening, each work investigates the combination of different art forms as a means of shaping a personal artistic language.