Lîla Dance: Fault Lines
The piece sets out to challenge and empower people to make environmental changes now. That it achieves its aims is unquestionable.
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Paco Peña: Solera
What a long way we have come since the first flamenco festival in 2003. A very pleasing prelude to this year’s festival in a couple of months.
International Draft Works
A short evening with plenty of variety, as ten choreographers, mostly still dancers themselves, were given the space to experiment.
A symphony of young and old: ZooNation Youth and the Company of Elders
The sheer delight of the performers washed across the footlights, embracing the audience in a continuous hug
Taiwan comes to the Coronet
A season presenting over 30 artists. In Second Body by Anarchy Dance Theatre, Chao Ting-ting was beautifully graceful and fluid
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
A well of seething darkness: Mark Bruce Company’s Frankenstein
A “superb piece of dance theatre that comes with all the Gothic surrealness and cinematic qualities that Bruce is known for”
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano
Sydney Dance Company: Ascent
classic contemporary dance, a work of conceptual dance/art and a breakdance-inspired close, all invested with Antipodean energy and commitment
Something special: Syncopation
Syncopation deserves to be picked-up and transferred to the West End. Seldom have two performers, or a musical play, deserved it more.
Macmillan short works celebrated by The Royal Ballet
This triple bill of Danses Concertantes, Different Drummer and Requiem gives evidence of the breadth and depth of his creative talents