An impressive start for Regent’s Park Theatre’s Theatre Dance Lab
Drew McOnie really has also got a good thing going with this new programme to nurture the next generation of musical theatre choreographers.
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Acosta Danza: A Decade in Motion
All seventeen dancers were outstanding throughout, never dropping their attention to detail, bringing intense emotion to their dancing.
Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann: Anatomy of Survival
The story revolves around a woman trying to buy a coffee, and the barista not understanding what she wanted.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Eastman: Vlaemsch (chez moi)
Picasso bent women with a brush. Holbein crushed ambassadors with a skull. Cherkaoui piles his house with dancers, books, frames, bones.
Jazz Arts ReWired
The quality of the dancing was excellent, with the men out-performing the women in cleanness of lines, and wonderfully precise syncopation
A Freudian dream: Dance Company Lasta in Naraku
From the outset the piece establishes a dissonant texture, as if pulling the audience into the fissure of a dream
Ella Tighe: Disco Queen
An hour of monologue, interspersed with freestyle dance routines but does feel like a set of unconnected routines rather than a single dance work.
Sadeck Berrabah: Murmuration Level 2
The mesmeric, swooping, sweeping beauty of a murmuration in the soft light of sunset is reduced to that of automatons
Dancing City: A tapestry of crossings and contradictions
Swedish minimalism brushed against Colombian carnival, French surrealism met British street energy, children’s laughter cut through adult abstraction.
Fragments and collisions: We Should Have Never Walked On The Moon
A collaborative exploration of fragmented narratives and contemporary desires, it unfolded as a deliberately fractured whole across multiple spaces
Copenhagen Collective: The Genesis
Peacock Theatre, LondonSeptember 3, 2025 The Copenhagen Collective is a newly formed international circus ensemble based in Denmark comprising sixteen acrobat/dancers from diverse countries and cultures. The Genesis, a rather appropriate title for their debut production, premiered in Copenhagen in July 2024. The performance showcases some breathtaking acrobatics and dance, with creative stagecraft. Particularly noteworthy … Read more