Confidence, challenge and considerable promise in The Place CAT Summer Show
Moving between contrasting choreographers, styles and emotional worlds, all the dancers, all 16 or under, performed with flair, confidence and impressive technical ability.
Reviews
Cats: an evening at the Jellicle Ball
Framed by trees, open sky and an atmospheric set, the production embraces its surroundings with confidence. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s score has lost none of its appeal. Drew McOnie’s choreography is frequently inventive and full of theatrical pleasure.
Wuji Dance Company: I Don’t Care by Jie Zhou
Not the exclamation of a recalcitrant teen but a new dance-theatre work by Jie Zhou (周婕) that reflects on how dress, profession, societal and social expectations shape how we see ourselves and are seen by others, and can stop us leading a fuller life.
I’m Every Woman: The Chaka Khan Musical
A roller-coaster journey through the artist’s life, incorporating many of her greatest hits alongside some less familiar material.
Love’s Labour’s Lost: Much ado about noise
Flamenco brings exactly the right kind of commotion to Indiana Lown-Collins’ production: hot, busy and impossible to keep private… Pablo Egea, in particular, brings a striking sculptural quality to the flamenco posture
A rollercoaster ride: Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man
It may be 26 years young, but Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man is still packing audiences in, taking them on a supercharged ride.
Think Big: a Festival for children and youths in Munich
A biennial festival, now in its 11th edition, offering dance performances, music theatre and workshops for children of all ages…
5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline – the documentary
Sixteen years after 5 Soldiers first appeared, Rosie Kay’s new documentary brings its five dancing bodies together with the voices of five former soldiers
Screen, dance, screendance
David Mead considers the nature of screendance as he looks at four works by Singaporean director Brian Toh.
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
Time and again the young dancers rose marvellously to the pressure of the occasion in what was a wonderful display of skill and talent. It was also a hugely enjoyable performance choreographically.
ImPulsTanz: Nymph by Taous Bertrand
One left Nymph deeply frustrated. Most of Bertrand’s ideas have merit and interest but they fail to gel into any sort of coherent whole