Dance
Sadler’s Wells, Ambitious New PlansTuesday, 05 November 2013Alastair Spalding, Sadler’s Wells’ Chief Executive and Artistic Director, today announced that the theatre is looking for a fourth London venue, which it hopes will open in just four years’ time.Not content with two proscenium spaces (the main stage... Read more... |
The Bolshoi acid trial begins - vitriol promisedFriday, 01 November 2013
Even by the grand Guignol standards of Russian ballet 2013, this week has been eventful. The trial of the Bolshoi dancer for attacking his boss with acid finally began on Tuesday, and with incredible, tension-ratcheting synchrony, the controversial... Read more... |
Hofesh Shechter, Sun, Sadler’s WellsThursday, 31 October 2013
The first time you see a Shechter piece, you feel it, literally as well as figuratively: percussive is a mild word for his forceful choreography, the stamping, churning, yearning of his sweeping shapes and rhythms. Percussive is the music, too (... Read more... |
In A Deep Dark Wood, Gobbledegook and Moko Dance, Lilian Baylis Studio TheatreSaturday, 26 October 2013
Most children's theatre productions are usually either heavily branded (think Peppa Pig's roadshow) or - particularly with dance - saccharine to the point of patronising (think My First Cinderella). It is refreshing then, to see a kid's company that... Read more... |
Rambert Triple Bill, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 23 October 2013
After a busy year, moving their headquarters from Chiswick to new premises on the South Bank, Rambert dance company have managed to keep momentum working with stalwarts such as Ashley Page and Mark Baldwin as well as branching out with... Read more... |
Le Corsaire, English National Ballet, Milton Keynes TheatreFriday, 18 October 2013
It’s been a good year for the colourful side of classical ballet in England. Anyone who thought the 19th-century greats were all about swans, sylphs and wilis, ghostly in clouds of white tulle, will have reconsidered after seeing two productions of... Read more... |
The Sleeping Beauty, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s WellsFriday, 18 October 2013
Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good. Sometimes, of course, it’s even better to be both. And Birmingham Royal Ballet, in their all-too-brief London season, have been both lucky and good. Lucky, because they have Peter Wright’s little jewel of... Read more... |
Bintley Triple Bill, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sadler’s WellsWednesday, 16 October 2013
Is David Bintley the one that got away, the wrong turning the Royal Ballet took in the early 1990s? I have long thought so, and watching their current triple bill, the feeling only grows. Bintley trained at the Royal Ballet School, graduated into... Read more... |
Atomos, Wayne McGregor|Random Dance, Sadler's Wells TheatreThursday, 10 October 2013
Some choreographers get turned on by stories; others by music; yet others by the unpredictable magic of rehearsal room chemistry between dancers. Wayne McGregor, the shaven-headed, lanky, black clad superstar of British contemporary ballet,... Read more... |
The Culture Show: Sylvie Guillem - Force of Nature, BBC TwoThursday, 10 October 2013
The ballerina Sylvie Guillem was always out on a limb, even when she was the classical star at the Royal Ballet in the '90s and early '00s. She was French, she was tall, she was unbelievably flexible, she was staggeringly charismatic, and she had no... Read more... |
Don Quixote, Royal BalletTuesday, 01 October 2013
The opening night of the autumn season brings a gala first night, Carlos Acosta’s staging of Petipa’s Hispano-Russo-Austro-Hungarische castanet-fest, Don Quixote, with starry leads (Marianela Nuñez and Acosta himself), a very obviously expensive new... Read more... |
Triple Bill, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, Sadler's WellsSaturday, 28 September 2013
Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet are a lot like the city they hail from. Like New York, they are bold, zingy, multicultural and they move with an irrepressible energy.But they are a serious company, accomplished and highly technical, constantly... Read more... |
