Dance
Firebird/ Rite of Spring, English National Ballet, London ColiseumFriday, 23 March 2012
Two amazing things in one evening from a company totally at sixes and sevens artistically - it could only be English National Ballet. First amazing thing: the uncovering of a confident and stylish young choreographer straight from school. Second... Read more... |
Irek Mukhamedov dances again in LondonTuesday, 20 March 2012Former Royal Ballet leading star and Bolshoi hero Irek Mukhamedov is coming out of retirement to perform in Peter Schaufuss's Tchaikovsky Trilogy at the London Coliseum 23-28 July. He will be playing the roles of Rothbart in Swan Lake, the Queen’s... Read more... |
FAR, Wayne McGregor|Random Dance, Sadler's Wells TheatreTuesday, 20 March 2012
This is a great spring for dance-lovers. Tucked in for two nights at Sadler's Wells (catch it again tonight) is the return of Wayne McGregor's FAR, well timed to appear just before his latest ballet at Covent Garden next week. Uniquely among... Read more... |
ENB star launches new ballet companyMonday, 19 March 2012English National Ballet's virtuoso Cuban star Yat-Sen Chang is launching a new company to train young dancers in his directorial debut. Called Espinosa Dance Project, the company aims to school young dancers in three-month blocks with a performance... Read more... |
South Asian festival at SouthbankMonday, 19 March 2012Southbank Centre’s third annual Alchemy festival returns 12-22 April with a mix of music, dance, literature, film, fashion and design reflecting the economic and cultural landscape of the Indian subcontinent. The centre's Thames-side venues and... Read more... |
Finnish oddball circus tours in JuneMonday, 19 March 2012Finland’s Race Horse Company returns to the UK with a circus spectacular Petit Mal, a success on its first visit here two years ago. The tour starts at Stratford Circus, London on 1 & 2 June, then visits Oxford's Playhouse and Poole Lighthouse,... Read more... |
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (2012), Royal BalletSunday, 18 March 2012
"I told you butter wouldn’t suit the works," accuses the Mad Hatter. "It was the best butter," replies the March Hare apologetically, in Lewis Carroll’s original tale. Butter might or might not suit the works onstage in the Royal Ballet’s everything... Read more... |
theartsdesk Q&A: Russian Choreographer Boris EifmanSaturday, 17 March 2012
No choreographer so divides American and British critics as Russia's only international dancemaker, Boris Eifman. He's "an amazing magician of the theatre", according to the late, great US critic Clive Barnes. He "flaunts all the worst clichés of... Read more... |
Two new choreographers get Covent Garden helping handFriday, 16 March 2012ROH2, the Royal Opera House's development wing, announces two new Choreographic Associates who will start in September 2012, Alexander Whitley (formerly with Michael Clark, Rambert and Birmingham Royal Ballet) and Mayuri Boonham, Bharata Natyam... Read more... |
San Francisco Ballet returns to UK at lastFriday, 16 March 2012Booking has opened for San Francisco Ballet's first London season in eight years, at Sadler's Wells 14-23 September. Ten works will be performed, nine of them new to London, including work by Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Ashley Page, Yuri... Read more... |
Dance festival at Siobhan Davies StudiosFriday, 16 March 2012What Matters - a mini festival of dance at Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London SE1, Friday 13 – Sunday 15 April. Highlights include works from Julia Bardsley and Wendy Houstoun, Simon Ellis performing Deborah Hay’s I Think Not, and... Read more... |
Men in Motion II, Sadler's Wells TheatreThursday, 15 March 2012
This show was intended to be all about the men (see title). But it was the woman in motion who stormed off with the honours in this second edition of what has become tagged as the Sergei Polunin show. And a heavy, maternally hipped, middle-aged... Read more... |
