Flatpack Collaboration at the Birmingham International Dance Festival
A look at six dance films including the subtly beautiful but strongly-messaged In Plain Sight by Tanin Torabi
Reviews
Levantes Dance Theatre: The Band
A delightful fifty minutes of super physical theatre that sends you have with a warm feeling inside.
A unique piece of theatre: Circus Days and Nights by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera
This unique commingling of poetry, opera by Philip Glass and and circus has created something quite magical
Rambert on top form as Draw from Within takes to the stage
At the heart of the evening is exhilarating, amazing dance. The company are in top form
Three new works and a revival in a fine evening by mapdance 2021
A fine evening from the University of Chichester MA touring company, full of ensemble dance but that also lets us to see the performers as individuals
Rhainnon Faith Company: Drowntown
Set in a dystopian world, ostensibly on the edge of a marine lido. Godot-like we are apparently waiting for a lifeguard to arrive
A trip into the darkness of emotional loneliness and frustration: B.DANCE in Rage
Superbly danced and full of atmosphere. A beautiful, dark, work that journeys into the depths of the human soul
Micaela Taylor’s darkly delicious Home lights up Rambert2
Home is a brilliantly danced, juicy piece of dance theatre that grabs you from its opening dark tableau to its unresolved end
San Francisco Ballet in Swan Lake
OnlineMay 21, 2021 Charlotte Kasner What has been a hugely pleasurable digital season from San Francisco Ballet came to a close with Helgi Tomasson’s 2009 production of Swan Lake, his second for the company. His robust re-telling is well suited to modern sentiments: after all we are all familiar with women suffering coercive control (if … Read more
Shadows: Alexander Whitley Dance Company in Overflow
Overflow was made in collaboration with Dutch light artists Children of the Light, and it is their powerful contribution that sticks in the memory.
Neo by Alexei Ratmansky
A new duet for Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside intersperses frenetic, sharp movement with languid ports de bras