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.
Southbank Centre
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:
Sasha Waltz & Guests: In C
The piece is a sort of improvisational choreographic and musical exercise within a set structure of 53 musical and choreographic phrases.
Circa with the London Philharmonic Orchestra: Daphnis and Chloé
A seriously impressive, eclectic display of acro and aerial dance gymnastics, performed on mats, each other, poles, high wires, ropes and drapery
We Wear Our Wheels With Pride by Robyn Orlin
A wonderfully energetic, colourful, and creative piece of theatre based on Zulu rickshaw drivers during South Africa’s apartheid years.