Alejandro Hurtado/Inmaculada Salomón and Manuel Valençia Trio
Two shows that presented the very best of contemporary flamenco, and how lucky are we that London is able to witness it.
Reviews
International DANCE Festival München: study now steady by Ligia Lewis
What is fascinating is not what the dancers are doing… per se, but the immediacy of their relationship with those close-up audience members.
International DANCE Festival München: a lover, a motorbike and a dash of craziness
A sort of serenade, a work of myth, mystery and allure, man and machine, Radio Vinci Park grabbed one from the very beginning to its engine roaring finish
International DANCE Festival München: The Master’s Tools
Their stamina is astounding… It is all beautifully done, tightly choreographed but appearing as if spontaneous.
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: Vuela
Sara Baras and her company, just five years older than the LOndon Flamenco Festival itself, have set the bar very high… A hard act to follow
International DANCE Festival München: Powerful words and intriguing dance
19 shows. 11 days. 9 venues. The first of several reports focuses on director Tobias Staab’s opening remarks, and ‘deadlier than dead’ by Ligia Lewis.
Royal Swedish Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
Schonbrun delivered on all counts with beautifully placed feet, crystalline classical positions and a finely drawn reading of a complex, wilful Juliet.
Modern Table in Ham:beth
The six dancers present sequence after sequence of precise, tight, intricate, and repetitive dance, that certainly hits the spot.
Bat Out of Hell: The Musical
The live band do more than justice to Steinman’s compositions, they give them fresh life and vigour with feet stamping indulgence
Ballet BC: Frontier, Passing
Crystal Pite’s Frontier takes the audience on a fabulous thirty-minute journey to a place somewhere between conscious and unconscious
Ballet Hispánico: CARMEN.maquia
A more authentically Spanish take on the story, traditional yet innovative and with a contemporary vibe. It looks terrific, and was wonderfully danced