Friday, October 21, 2011
The Place, LondonThis year's Dance Umbrella festival sees contemporary dance acknowledging its own history. The latest programme to feature rare revivals of old works is by Richard Alston Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 18, 2011
An American experimental stalwart who went from avant garde work with found objects to finding a visual style for Philip GlassIn shortLook at a portrait of Lucinda Childs's face ("like Cathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AM[SHARE]Monday, October 17, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonCandoco certainly don't play safe in their programming. For the 20th-anniversary tour of this integrated company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, the centrep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PM[SHARE]Peacock theatre, LondonA while into Shaun Parker's dancework Happy as Larry you start asking: just how happy was Larry anyway? For although programme and publicity suggest that the piece is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonTwo images keep coming to mind during Emanuel Gat's Brilliant Corners: birds and brains. The group sequences embody them most vividly. In the opening, for example, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonJean Abreu has taken a bold step with Inside. The feline fluidity and spacious abstraction that marked his earlier pieces are now alloyed with a new element of ps…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonBelgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a huge fan of comic books, Japanese manga in particular. And perhaps that's the problem with his new work TeZukA, inspired…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2011
Merce Cunningham's legacy tour, a triple treat from the Birmingham Royal Ballet and a cross-dressing comedyAkram Khan Company: DeshChoreographer Akram Khan may perform less than he used to, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 11, 2011
From 1950s Beijing to this year's Edinburgh festival, China's national ballet braved revolution and reforms to become a leading presence on the world stageIn shortThe National Ballet of Chin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PM[SHARE]Monday, August 8, 2011
Coliseum, LondonTango is a dance of grace and danger, a dance that embodies desire in its web of glances, advances and evasions, a dance that inspires deep devotion from its followers " a da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PM[SHARE]Friday, July 29, 2011
Coliseum, LondonRecently, Carlos Acosta has been branching out from ballet superstardom. Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PM[SHARE]Friday, July 22, 2011
Barbican, LondonThe Brisbane-based Circa troupe was founded in 1987, but its current identity comes courtesy of director Yaron Lifschitz, who took over in 2004. A trained theatre director wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 14, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter rocks. No, really. The Israeli-born choreographer and composer was once in a rock group " and in Political Mother, more than any other piece, it shows. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PM[SHARE]Monday, July 11, 2011
From Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar " and hemlines " of dance for everTwo enduring loves span the life of French choreographer Roland P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Linbury Studio Theatre, LondonThere's a revolving-door feel to Cocteau Voices, a double bill of dance and opera that spins around the same themes " desire, absence, delusion " from two contr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2011
O2 Arena, London"Ballet rocks!" is a phrase increasingly bandied about by enthusiastic dance fans. Ballet has indeed been bursting its opera-house laces, with high-profile appearances in a K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 19, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonYou don't look for coherence in the works of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, you go to experience them. Mirror and Music (2009) is characteristic: a loose-kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Choreographer and performer whose troupe dance along the edge of physical expression, forging a sensory style all their ownIn shortHis company's name means "crow", but Saburo Teshigawara is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 24, 2011
A pillar of modern choreography, the US octogenarian once turned George W Bush's walk into a danceIn short Although neither a pioneer nor a radical of American modern dance, Paul Taylor is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThey make an improbable pair " MarÃa Pagés an earthy flamenco dancer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a contemporary dancer, as supple as a sapling. But they have one gift in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 4, 2011
This Dutch choreographer's distinctive personal style mixes formal austerity and glassy elegance with erotic chargeIn shortDutch choreographer Hans van Manen has been called the Mondrian of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AM[SHARE]Monday, May 2, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor one weekend each spring, Sadler's Wells is transformed. Its foyers throb with sound and throng with young people, and on every floor you come across eager displays …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 20, 2011
It Needs Horses should never have galloped away with the audience vote, still less the UK's biggest choreography prize. Maybe it's time for AV?So there I was the other night, at the finals o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt's 20 years since choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh founded her own company. Introducing a special anniversary programme, Southbank Centre head Jude Kelly rightly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PM[SHARE]Monday, April 18, 2011
Sadler's Wells, London★★/★★★★A season of four early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has shown that right from the beginning she was a tenaciously…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 22, 2011
The Place, LondonAn intrepid and spirited company, Scottish Dance Theatre has regularly commissioned choreographers previously unknown in the UK; their current double bill is by two new Amer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2011
The Place, LondonBawren Tavaziva's Double Take came with a prologue: local schoolchildren performing scenes they had developed in workshops. This warm-up act pointed up the strengths and wea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Javier de Frutos revels in the raw and the provocative but his new collaboration with Pet Shop Boys is for the familyIn shortA maverick, an iconoclast and a heretic, Javier de Frutos is an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 6, 2011
Whitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Whitechapel Gallery invited three very different sets of dance artists to "animate" Shadow Spans, their long-standing gallery installation by Claire Barclay. F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 13, 2011
Arts Depot, LondonMichael Nunn and William Trevitt, aka the Balletboyz, have always been media-savvy. Having stopped dancing, they have ditched their cheeky double act, recruited nine young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 1, 2011
A crossover pioneer, this American choreographer melds classical ballet with modern, jazz, ballroom and even aerobics in an energetic mix that impresses, if not always endearsIn shortTwyla T…
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