As audacious as ever: Ben Duke in Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
The long build-up is deceptively naïve, the humour bordering on crass before the remarks sharpen and strike like a punch to the belly
UK
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
Levantes Dance Theatre: The Band
A delightful fifty minutes of super physical theatre that sends you have with a warm feeling inside.
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
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
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.
A jolly good evening! Live dance returns with English National Ballet’s Reunion
From Yuri Possokhov’s Senseless Kindness to Arielle Smith’s Jolly Folly, the five works all transfer well from film to stage, giving some in particular the chance to truly breathe
LDIF: Maya Taylor’s Shape|Shifter and Yinka Esi Graves’ The Disappearing Act
Los Angeles and New Orleans-based choreographer Maya Taylor crosses easily between the commercial fashion, film and television, and stage performance. Her new dance film, Shape|Shifter, explores the strain she has often felt to assimilate as a mixed-race woman.
