The story of an ‘everyday ballerina’: Being a Ballerina by Gavin Larsen
Larsen doesn’t sprinkle her story with sugar or fairy dust. This is ballet as it is; as it really is. I’m not sure I’ve read another book about dance like it.
DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions
Loughlan Prior’s The Firebird for Royal New Zealand Ballet brings the old story up to date
Totally committed performances… awesome animations and effects… theatre magic
New views of a classic: Swan Lakes by Gauthier Dance
No flocks of white swans and definitely no tutus as Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto and Marco Goecke look at the classic in their own unique style
Finding oneself, finding ‘woman’: Yun Collective’s This is Not a solo dance
In her dance, Ruby Chang talks to herself, questions herself. Is there one ‘woman’ or lots of ‘women’? And, where, what, who is she?
A tribute to men in sandals: Don Gnu’s Two Men and a Plank
The plank is a sturdy piece of stripped pine and the men, two everyday guys. Well, not quite…
Spaces Between Us and Satori by Lewis Major
The ‘spaces’ of the title has a double meaning, however. Suggestions of love and the difficulties of reconnecting are never far away
Checking in with The Receptionists by Kallo Collective
Björn and Tammisalo have you in the palm of their hands. Every look, facial contortion and raised eyebrow says so much
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Touchdown by Incandescence Dance
A fascinating, absorbing 30-minute science meets art solo
A magical setting for an Eastern fantasy: B.DANCE in Alice
The choreography is innovative and exciting and has a sensitive partner in the music conjured up by Rockid Lee
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Fighters by Les Petites Choses Production
A handsome film towards the ‘screendance’ end of the spectrum in which past meets present, traditional meets modern
Taiwan Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Tjimur Dance Theatre
A largely light-hearted and quirky look at contemporary Paiwan life, although it does have its deeper, more thoughtful moments