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
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Ballet Black: Heroes
Laplane whose Click was such a delight, returns with a new creation, If At First, that explores heroism, a noble quality and worthy of investigation
Boy Blue’s Cycles
Barbican Theatre, LondonMay 1, 2024 Cycles, performed by pioneers of hip-hop, Boy Blue, is a powerhouse of a performance. It depicts the cycles of nature: day and night, time and season, tides and rhythms, and birth and death. The dancers are superb, highly talented and skilled hip-hop performers. The piece is introduced with a motion-sway … Read more
Divine. Pam Tanowitz and David Lang’s Song of Songs
Stripped of emotional content… her choreography is cool, refined and restrained. It’s also intensely beautiful.
Sound and movement: MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
They create their soundtrack using a variety of everyday objects and materials scattered around the stage that looks like a… children’s playground
Eun Me Ahn Company: Dragons
Seventy minutes of colour: in light, costume and video design, and movement… The dancers are superb, individually and collectively.
Familie Flöz: Feste
Entertaining theatre, spiced with acute social commentary… Whether you are a dance, theatre or music fan, there will be something for you.
Terrific physicality but perplexing: The Wedding by Gecko
The ensemble are terrific as they lead us into their dystopian world. There is some super imagery. But it is utterly perplexing
Raimund, Farewell: a tribute to Pina Bausch dramaturg, Raimund Hoghe
A man of resilience, grace, generosity of spirit, and an acute observer of the complexities of the human condition, he passed away in 2021
Thirty minutes in VR: Le Bal de Paris by Blanca Li
An amazing experience. The audacity and scope of Li’s vision coupled with the visual creations of director Vincent Chazal are breath-taking
Dance with commitment from Ballet Black as they celebrate their 20th anniversary
Gregory Maqoma’s Black Sun buries deep into the interior of the dancers making each journey a highly personal and individual exploration