Jazz Conversations with BOP Jazz Theatre Company
A double bill of ‘Footprints in Jazz’ and ‘Touches of Miles’, both accompanied by live jazz musicians, adding panache and class to the evening.
The Place
Amina Khayyam Dance Company: You&Me, BIRD
Despite the dark and difficult subject matter that is domestic abuse, Khayyam and her five fellow dancers create some beautiful images
Annie Hanauer Dance: A space for all our tomorrows
A show that looks at utopia through the lens of disability… about collective imagining and disabled dreaming
A well of seething darkness: Mark Bruce Company’s Frankenstein
A “superb piece of dance theatre that comes with all the Gothic surrealness and cinematic qualities that Bruce is known for”
Bringing Frankenstein’s monster to the dance stage
Goddard describes Frankenstein as an episodic work, “A series of romantic era tableaux, inside of which I can kind of operate as The Monster.”
Extended Play: How to Build a Universe
The work flips easily between physical theatre and playful contemporary dance, at its best in unison sequences that are invariably tightly performed
Scottish Dance Theatre: Pirates!
A show full of imagination and fine physical theatre and dance. It may be aimed at youngsters, but this grown up enjoyed it a lot too!
Van Huynh Company: Re:birth
A collage of recollected impressions and sensations, and to a lesser extent emotions, of the refugee experience
Lore by James Wilton Dance
There are lots of lifts and combinations. Unfortunately, they are repeated and repeated in sequences that themselves also become repetitive
Change Tempo (Su Pin-wen and Alexandre Fandard)
Su Pin-wen (蘇品文) and Alexandre Fandard are engaging performers with considerable stage presence. Yet both works, failed to deliver fully
Solène Weinachter: After All
An exploration of mortality and how we say goodbye, it is very poignant and thoughtful at times, but there’s also a lot of fun along the way.