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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 16, 2011
Nottingham ArenaStrictly Come Dancing Live is exactly as described: the television show performed on stage. Celebrities from the 2010 season, plus old-timers Ricky Whittle and Colin Jackson,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM[SHARE]Friday, January 7, 2011
We've heard lots about Natalie Portman's travails as a fictional prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's film, but she's just the latest in a long line of doomed cinematic dancersWARNING: cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 6, 2011
Coliseum, LondonRudolf Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet " restaged by English National Ballet, the company for which it was first created in 1977 " reads like a cross between Shakespear…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, December 24, 2010
Yvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorIn shortAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Linbury Studio, LondonFirst shown as a studio performance in summer 2008, William Tuckett's Faeries has been revised as a Christmas children's show for the stage, with some key changes: it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Bill T Jones has spent his dance career making the personal political provoking both acclaim and controversy along the way Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 18, 2010
A founding father of Britain's modern dance movement, this American disciple of Martha Graham was famed for his expressionistic style ... not to mention his silver platform shoes Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Experimenting with film, theatre and music from Bach to Baez, this natural born choreographer holds her audiences captive, writes Sanjoy Roy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2009
He's the ballet punk whose choreography turned him into dance's rock'n'roll legend. Sanjoy Roy profiles the rise, fall and rebirth of an iconoclassicist Continue reading...
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