You, the Choreographer: Creating and Crafting Dance
A truly handsome book… It covers just about everything you want to know, explore and understand about the elusive art of choreography
DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions
Passionate Work: Choreographing A Dance Career
A compelling book about those dancers who didn’t become stars, about their passion, grit and determination, why they do what they do
Kenneth MacMillan and Robert Cohan spotlighted in a new film: Dance Revolutionaries
Both specially filmed on location, Cohan’s Portraits is a series of five solos, while MacMillan’s Sea of Troubles is his shot at Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Kate Prince and ZooNation’s Message in a Bottle comes to the big screen
The ‘Message’ is going wider. Sadler’s Wells team up with the Royal Opera House and Universal Pictures to release the hit show on film.
Osiel Gouneo, Black Romeo, a biography
“My way into the white world of ballet,” well summarizes his story but the biography… also gives a rare insight into what it means to be a dancer
Meredith Monk: Calling
A unique retrospective of her immersive creations. Across three large rooms, the Munich exhibition presents major creations from her catalogue
Brought to vivid life. A classic remastered: The Red Shoes
Beautifully re-mastered, Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes has lost nothing of its power after 75 years. If anything it has gained it.
Sir Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes on the big screen
Bourne manages to pull off the tricky challenge of being faithful to the original while giving his production an inner life all of its own
Dynamo: Michael Somes A Life In The Royal Ballet
A long-overdue look at an underrated and perhaps now largely forgotten principal dancer.
New BFI exhibition celebrates 75 years of The Red Shoes
The exhibition… certainly whets the appetite for the forthcoming screening of the re-mastered film. What it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality
John Cranko: in Memoriam
A look at ‘John Cranko: Tanzvisionär’ a new book of interviews with people associated with Cranko; and the 2nd edition of Ashley Killar’s biography