Dance
Scarlett & McGregor world premieres, Royal BalletWednesday, 15 May 20135-23 April: Two premieres on the triple bill - NEW Liam Scarlet t, Polyphonia, NEW Wayne McGregor. The one night of the season for new wo rk, with world premieres from the rising Scarlett, a Neo-Classicist, andthe established Modernist McGregor. In... Read more... |
West Side Story, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 20137 Aug 2013 – 22 Sep 2013. Leonard Bernstein's music, Jerome Ro bbins's choreography, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics - the immortal 50s New Yor k update on Romeo and Juliet with songs including "Maria", "Tonight", "So mewhere", "America" and "I Feel... Read more... |
ENO, Swan Lake, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 20133-11 August: English National Ballet - Swan Lake in Derek Deane 's fine theatre production (not the same as his arena one) Booking: http:/ /www.eno.org Read more... |
Akram Khan, iTMOi, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201328 May-1 June: Following outstanding success with his latest so lo, DESH, award-winning dancer/choreographer Akram Khan returns to Sadler 's Wells with the London premiere of his much-anticipated new work, iTMOi , the second part of the A String of... Read more... |
An Evening for Hospices of Hope, Sadler's Wells TheatreTuesday, 14 May 2013
Thank you, Romania, for ballerina Alina Cojocaru, pianist Dinu Lipatti, sopranos Angela Gheorghiu and Ileana Cotrubas, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, tennis player Ilie Nastase, playwright Eugène Ionesco, conductor Sergiu Celibidache, actors Edward G... Read more... |
10 Questions for Ballerina Alina CojocaruWednesday, 08 May 2013
For the Royal Ballet's exquisite star Alina Cojocaru her dream is performing some of the most physically demanding movements ever devised for a human being - for a paralysed 52-year-old man in Romania, the dream is to go to the park and look at the... Read more... |
Hofesh Shechter/ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Puz/zle, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 30 April 2013
I was trying to remember the last time a choreographer actually tried to make the audience smile in the past few months. Dance-lovers are suckers for guilt. They creep into the dark of their seat to be regaled by their share of the blame for the... Read more... |
Mayerling, The Royal Ballet/ Le Jeune Homme et La Mort, English National BalletSunday, 21 April 2013
The acting tradition is refined in British ballet to a height not matched anywhere else in the world - distilled in Frederick Ashton’s ballets, expanded in Kenneth MacMillan’s. This repertoire has produced a stream of exceptional dance actors over... Read more... |
Ecstasy and Death, English National Ballet, London ColiseumFriday, 19 April 2013
Is it death that makes us go back to the ballet? The one artform where it is so glorified, so exquisitely reimagined as an experience of regret, hope, ecstasy or bleakest resignation that we will go to drink it in again and again, to preview our own... Read more... |
Romeo and Juliet, National Ballet of Canada, Sadler's WellsThursday, 18 April 2013
The combination of Romeo, Juliet and the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky should be almost too much for the blood pressure. Those defiant lovers, that emotive yet intellectual young Russian craftsman of ballet. Hence the huge turn-out of balletomanes... Read more... |
The Rite of Spring/Petrushka, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Sadler's WellsSunday, 14 April 2013
In String of Rites, Sadler’s Wells has commissioned three works as a tribute to Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Le sacre du printemps. It opened with the Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s double bill, The Rite of Spring and Petrushka. Both scores are... Read more... |
Midnight Express, Peter Schaufuss Ballet, London ColiseumThursday, 11 April 2013
Yok is a fine Turkish word meaning “there isn’t any”. You use it for “no”, as in, say - is Midnight Express any good? Yok.The hot news surrounding this production was all in the scarpering of its two stars a week before opening, both exceptional... Read more... |
