Humanity. Tragedy with comedy. Maguy Marin on May B.
If Maguy Marin has a signature work, May B. is surely it. Ahead of its coming to London, the choreographer Marin tells David Mead about the piece.
Sadler's Wells
Paco Peña: Solera
What a long way we have come since the first flamenco festival in 2003. A very pleasing prelude to this year’s festival in a couple of months.
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano
Dance and theatre gold: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Assembly Hall
A dance production that truly speaks to the ills of contemporary society and that is not afraid to make us laugh along the way.
Company Wayne McGregor in UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey
If you can endure the unnerving projections and the musical scares… the brilliant dancers make it a satisfying experience
Wayne McGregor: Autobiography
The dancing was outstanding… McGregor’s choreography, or it is AI choreography, is creative, innovative, and exciting to watch. Until it isn’t.
New York City Ballet’s London return
While the company has always projected a sense of excitement and even danger… alas, little was evident in this quadruple bill.
INK, Play for Two by Dimitris Papaioannou
Worked for those in the audience who could climb inside his imagination and make their own story from what he was showing us.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Nelken
Often humorous, the dances border on grotesque, as if begging [us]… to acknowledge that the overwhelming sweetness can quickly turn into horror
Latin flair: São Paulo Dance Company
All three pieces call for a great deal of ensemble work, executed with such control and precision that at times they seemed to be come a single entity.