Dance is Not For Us by Cie Omar Rajeh & Maqamat
A short powerful burst of human emotion wrapped in poetic thoughts and a forest of basil plants.
Barbican
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland: A Japanese-French encounter with the absurd
An encounter in which the choreography too often serves to connect or decorate scenes, without adding much to the drama itself
Pam Tanowitz’s Pastoral. Beautiful pieces, strangely little pull
The dancers are excellent, the movement has a sly sense of humour, the set is beautiful, the sound world keeps throwing up new ideas. But those pleasures rarely seem to gather.
Sithuniyiwe: We have been sent
A joyous evening of South African music, song and dance with Mthuthuzeli and Siphesihle November… A rare meeting of talents…
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
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.