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Monday, August 8, 2011

Napoletango – review by Sanjoy Roy

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 …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PM
Friday, July 29, 2011

Carlos Acosta: Premieres Plus – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Friday, July 22, 2011

Circa – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Hofesh Shechter by Sanjoy Roy

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
Monday, July 11, 2011

Roland Petit: a career in clips by Sanjoy Roy

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 Rola…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Cocteau Voices – review by Sanjoy Roy

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 c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PM
Monday, June 20, 2011

Romeo and Juliet - review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Sunday, June 19, 2011

Saburo Teshigawara/KARAS – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Step-by-step guide to dance: Saburo Teshigawara and Karas by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Step-by-step guide to dance: Paul Taylor by Sanjoy Roy

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
Sunday, May 8, 2011

María Pagés and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui – review by Sanjoy Roy

Sadler's Wells, LondonThey make an improbable pair – María 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
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Step-by-step guide to dance: Hans van Manen by Sanjoy Roy

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
Monday, May 2, 2011

Breakin' Convention – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Does the Place prize for dance need an overhaul? | Sanjoy Roy by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Shobana Jeyasingh Company – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Monday, April 18, 2011

Rosas: Elena's Aria; Bartók/Mikrokosmos – review by Sanjoy Roy

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 single-minded choreogra…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Scottish Dance Theatre – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Tavaziva Dance – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Step-by-step guide to dance: Javier de Frutos by Sanjoy Roy

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
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Siobhan Davies and Matthias Sperling by Sanjoy Roy

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
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Balletboyz: The Talent – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Step-by-step guide to dance: Twyla Tharp | Sanjoy Roy by Sanjoy Roy

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
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Strictly Come Dancing Live – review by Sanjoy Roy

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

Strictly Come Dancing Live review by Sanjoy Roy

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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM
Friday, January 7, 2011

Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies by Sanjoy Roy

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
Thursday, January 6, 2011

English National Ballet: Romeo and Juliette – review by Sanjoy Roy

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 Shakes…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PM
Friday, December 24, 2010

Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Faeries – review by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Step-by-step guide to dance: Bill T Jones by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Step-by-step guide to dance: Robert Cohan by Sanjoy Roy

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
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Step-by-step guide to dance: Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Rosas by Sanjoy Roy

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

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