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Hofesh Shechter

Oedipus: Old Vic with Hofesh Shechter Company

February 6, 2025 by Maggie Foyer

The opening moment; a sudden blackout… wall of sound… dancers pulsing in muscular rhythm in cold hazy light sets the stage for a momentous drama.

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Hofesh Shechter Company Old Vic

Focus Dance Company 2024

April 16, 2024March 31, 2024 by David Mead

Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer

Categories Asia Asia Pages/亞洲頁 Reviews Taiwan/臺灣 Tags Focus Dance (焦點舞團) Hofesh Shechter Hung Tsai-hsi (洪綵希) School & conservatoire performances TNUA (國立臺北藝術大學)

Doing it his way. Gauthier Dance in Hofesh Shechter’s Contemporary Dance 2.0

July 10, 2023July 10, 2023 by David Mead

It demands precision. It demands total commitment. And it got all three in full from Gauthier Dance. The beat never stops, and neither do they.

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Gauthier Dance Hofesh Shechter

Four choreographers, four works: Gauthier Dance in Swan Lakes

December 22, 2022December 21, 2022 by David Mead

An homage to the familiar ballet. But while each of the four works was inspired by the classic, each is decidedly contemporary and different.

Categories Europe Reviews Tags Cayetano Soto Gauthier Dance Hofesh Shechter Marco Goecke Marie Chouinard Swan Lake

Shechter II: Contemporary Dance 2.0

June 2, 2022 by David Mead

Features the intensity of Shechter’s signature ensemble work to an eclectic score that runs from his own throbbing creations to J.S Bach and Frank Sinatra

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Shechter II

Hofesh Shechter Company: Double Murder

September 16, 2021 by David Mead

The Fix, brings a complete change. I found it remarkably compelling, Dancers embrace. Touch is tender. Moments hint at love, loss and shared experience

Categories London & SE Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Hofesh Shechter Company Sadler's Wells

New views of a classic: Swan Lakes by Gauthier Dance

September 3, 2021September 2, 2021 by David Mead

No flocks of white swans and definitely no tutus as Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto and Marco Goecke look at the classic in their own unique style

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Europe Reviews Tags Cayetano Soto Gauthier Dance Hofesh Shechter Marco Goecke Swan Lake

A complex emotional cocktail: Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother: The Final Cut

June 30, 2021June 30, 2021 by David Mead

A superb film that captures completely the spirit of the original, albeit with a slightly quieter, more reflective feel.

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions London & SE Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Shechter II

Imre and Marne van Opstal, and Hofesh Shechter: Shadow’s Whispers by Nederlands Dans Theater

June 20, 2021February 19, 2021 by Maggie Foyer

New works by Imre and Marne Van Opstal, and Hofesh Shechter

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Europe Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Imre van Opstal Marne van Opstal Nederlands Dans Theater

Sadler’s Wells Global Gala reminds us what we are missing

December 6, 2020 by David Mead

Including Tiler Peck in the super Buzzard and Kestrel by William Forsythe

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions London & SE Reviews Tags Akram Khan Carlos Acosta Hofesh Shechter Jason Kittelberger Jonzi D Kate Prince Natalia Osipova Russell Maliphant Sadler's Wells Sylvie Guillem William Forsythe

Intimate yet distanced: Hofesh Shechter’s devastating Untitled

September 28, 2020September 25, 2020 by David Mead

“Faces never lie”

Categories DVDs, Films, Online Streamings, Books, Exhibitions Reviews Tags Hofesh Shechter Hofesh Shechter Company
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