Stephanie Lake’s Colossus: A Living Choreography
An exploration of the relationship between the individual and the collective… Each dancer remained distinct while being continuously reorganised within a larger, shifting whole.
Southbank Centre
A new generation takes on Stephanie Lake’s Colossus
Stephanie Lake’s Colossus comes to London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall at the end of the month. Zoë Hewitt talks to rehearsal director and original cast member Nicole Muscat, and learns how the London Contemporary Dance School’s graduating dancers are shaping the ever-changing work. Fifty dancers. No exits. Fifty-five minutes of breath, pressure, collision risk and collective … Read more
The Ruggeds and Ghetto Funk Collective: Groove
A high-energy fusion of hip-hop, breaking, street dance and live funk music… a lively, skilful and exhilarating evening.
Ballet de Lorraine: Acid Gems and a Folia
The Ballet de Lorraine dancers were outstanding, performing with elan. They owned the stage, their ensemble work impressive.
Top Hat
Yes, the story is ridiculous… But you still leave the theatre humming those tunes and wanting to see it all over again. Top Hat. Top show.
Justin Talplacido Shoulder: ANITO
The programme promises ‘dance theatre.’ What unfolds is closer to an ecological fever dream.
Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius
The whole work is a feast of mobile bodies, the inventive movement sometimes jagged and sharp, sometimes wonderfully fluid.
Jan Martens: Voice Noise
Sometimes the dance is very much at one with the music, not so much adding layers or illustrating it, but being pushed and pulled by it.
Fragments and collisions: We Should Have Never Walked On The Moon
A collaborative exploration of fragmented narratives and contemporary desires, it unfolded as a deliberately fractured whole across multiple spaces
Nature Theater of Oklahoma: No President
It may have been compulsive and memorable, but that that doesn’t go hand I hand with pleasant… certainly different, though.
Frantic Assembly x Aurora Orchestra: Carnival
The premise of ‘Dr Frompou’s Anatomical Study of an Orchestra,’ that locked up musical instruments escape, is amusing: