Confidence, challenge and considerable promise in The Place CAT Summer Show
Moving between contrasting choreographers, styles and emotional worlds, all the dancers, all 16 or under, performed with flair, confidence and impressive technical ability.
Hofesh Shechter
Luck/Unluck with Gauthier Dance
In new works by Hofesh Shechter and Aszure Barton, the company’s dancers were fabulous and mesmerising, and sucked us into two strange worlds almost devoid of references to reality, but full of emotion
Hofesh Shechter Company: Theatre of Dreams
Theatre of Dreams is so far out of the box, that I found it impossible to follow… The staging is certainly innovative and exciting
Oedipus: Old Vic with Hofesh Shechter Company
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.
Focus Dance Company 2024
Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer
Doing it his way. Gauthier Dance in Hofesh Shechter’s Contemporary Dance 2.0
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.
Four choreographers, four works: Gauthier Dance in Swan Lakes
An homage to the familiar ballet. But while each of the four works was inspired by the classic, each is decidedly contemporary and different.
Shechter II: Contemporary Dance 2.0
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
Hofesh Shechter Company: Double Murder
The Fix, brings a complete change. I found it remarkably compelling, Dancers embrace. Touch is tender. Moments hint at love, loss and shared experience
New views of a classic: Swan Lakes by Gauthier Dance
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
A complex emotional cocktail: Hofesh Shechter’s Political Mother: The Final Cut
A superb film that captures completely the spirit of the original, albeit with a slightly quieter, more reflective feel.