Coming soon! Birmingham’s three-week dance-fest with something for all
A look ahead to the dance feast that is May’s IDFB 2016.
Ave Maya: Russian Ballet Icons Gala
An excellent combination of old favourites, some modern pieces and some from both sides less familiar
Gender games: Ham and Passion
Hilarious, shocking, ingenious, disconcerting, witty and worrying by turns.
Perfectly formed: Akram Khan’s Kaash
“Power and grace supported by a level of technical brilliance that is hard to match..”
Memories of a moment past: Christian Rizzo’s d’après une histoire vraie
A dance with a slow fuse…although it has much of interest, and the final joyful explosion is a delight
Passion and intensity: Immortal Tango
Jessica Wilson is at the Peacock Theatre, London March 4, 2016 Full of smouldering dance moves and trademark tango twists and flips, Germán Cornejo and his renowned dance partner Gisela Galeassi lead a cast of 14 dancers, plus a live band and vocals on stage, in an entertaining evening. Aiming to bring the glamour of … Read more
Dance of every style on the menu from the Staatsballett Berlin
The horizon is merely an imaginary line, existing only in the eye of the beholder…
A blue plaque for Fonteyn
Twenty-five years after her death, Margot Fonteyn is to be commemorated with a blue plaque at her former home
Hubert Essakow’s Terra
Charlotte Kasner is at The Print Room at the Coronet, London February 26, 2016 Terra is the final part of Hubert Essakow’s trilogy of the elements for the Print Room Dance Company and is taking place in the new Print Room venue, a former Victorian playhouse and partially restored Grade II listed building that, after … Read more
An East-West dialogue about love
Taiwan’s U-Theatre and Berlin’s Rundfunkchor in a fascinating and totally absorbing East meets West meeting
Körper: Sasha Waltz at the Royal Swedish Ballet
Bodies decorate the surface, the climb and fall using the height, the length and all spaces.