Ben Duke, Artist Encounters: Making Text Move
He does not speak so much as perform. His body moves faster than his words, revealing that his mind is running at least ten thoughts at once
An ode to Taiwan: Taipei Capital Ballet in Echoes from Afar
Deeply ingrained with mood and imagery, the whispers of nature and history… evokes pictures of the island, its nature… and its people.
Dance Umbrella: Change Tempo
Steiner is instantly magnetic. The toes of her pointe shoes rapidly strike the stage, rooting the lower body so the upper body can flourish and ripple
Taiwan’s Tjimur Dance Theatre visit with bulabulay mun? (How are you?)
Baru Madiljin explains that, while the work does not describe what happened over 150 years ago, he hopes viewers will feel fragments of memories
We Caliban: Shobana Jeyasingh’s sideways look at The Tempest
A work that both fascinates and confuses, and that shows Caliban, danced strikingly by Raúl Reinoso Acanda, from a very different perspective.
English National Ballet in R:Evolution
David Dawson’s Four Last Songs: sleek, extremely physical and emotional… Poetry in motion, it is utterly, utterly gorgeous.
The Royal Ballet: Like Water for Chocolate
As entertainment, Like Water for Chocolate succeeds. It is a rich, magical, exotic tragedy. But in terms of substance, it remains at the surface.
Dinner Party: pulling back the curtain on relationships
An exploration of the relationships between five couples… visited in turn, each conversation heard in recorded text, seen in dance.
New York City Ballet: Donizetti Variations, Ballade, Swan Lake
A pleasing, if unexciting evening. While nicely danced, it would be fair to say that none of the three ballets are out of Balanchine’s top drawer.
Fall for Dance Program 3: Two pas de deux, postmodern dance and something of today
Fall for Dance Program 3 with Hannah O’Neill and Hugo Marchand of Paris Opera Ballet, Gibney Dance, and Roderick George/kNoname Artist
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.