Fairy Tales by POCKETART
Fairy Tales reckons with delusions; delusions of our past, or perhaps the tales we tell ourselves to survive the present.
The Place
National Dance Company Wales: Frontiers
National Dance Company Wales attack movement without undermining its lyricism, striking a balance between power and ease that is truly admirable.
Richard Chappell Dance: Hot House
“Incredible dancing, the sheer fluidity of which almost defies description”
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.
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