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Saturday, May 20, 2017

Review: Voodoo at Sadler’s Wells by Anna Winter

A vortex of visibility and vulnerability: Anna Winter reviews Project O at Sadler's Wells. The post Review: Voodoo at Sadler’s Wells appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

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Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Rambert: Ghost Dances review at Sadler’s Wells, London – ‘poignant and potent’ by Anna Winter

Rambert’s latest triple bill features a promising premiere and the triumphant return of a heritage work. Back onstage after 13 years, Christopher

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Friday, May 12, 2017

Manwatching review at Royal Court, London – ‘frank and extremely funny’ by Anna Winter

This frank and extremely funny confessional monologue about sexual desire was written by a female playwright who wants to remain anonymous. Manwatching

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Thursday, May 11, 2017

Soho review at Peacock Theatre, London – ‘conventional, cliched circus’ by Anna Winter

Soho pays tribute to the once notorious London neighbourhood with a technically impressive but thoroughly conventional circus and dance extravaganza. Like so

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Review: Casanova at Sadler’s Wells by Anna Winter

A superbly danced and successful piece of storytelling: Anna Winter examines Northern Ballet's new show about the 18th-century Italian philanderer and his remarkable, reprehensible life. The…

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Tuesday, May 9, 2017

Driftwood review at Underbelly Festival, London – ‘captivating circus’ by Anna Winter

New cast members, new routines. Following last year’s successful Edinburgh run, Australian circus company Casus has mixed things up a bit with

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Thursday, May 4, 2017

Brodsky/Baryshnikov review at Apollo Theatre, London – ‘a deeply felt tribute’ by Anna Winter

Ballet luminary Mikhail Baryshnikov’s one-man show Brodsky/Baryshnikov is a poignant but slightly tedious tribute to the late poet Joseph Brodsky. Both were

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Wednesday, May 3, 2017

Review: Mayerling at the Royal Ballet by Anna Winter

Lust, morphine and mental instability: Kenneth MacMillan's infamously dark ballet is back, and so are the plummy Covent Garden crowds. The post Review: Mayerling at the Royal Ballet appeare…

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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Cock and Bull review at Royal Festival Hall, London – ‘strange, funny and ingenious’ by Anna Winter

Cock and Bull is a belting satire in which three female performers, Nic Green, Rosana Cade and Laura Bradshaw, deconstruct the familiar

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Friday, April 28, 2017

Oh Yes Oh No review at Camden People’s Theatre, London – ‘startling and resonant’ by Anna Winter

Louise Orwin’s Oh Yes Oh No is a challenging, thought-provoking one-woman show about the vagaries and violence of female desire. It struggles

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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

The Legend of Mulan review at Royal Festival Hall, London – ‘schmaltzy and bland’ by Anna Winter

Hong Kong Dance Company celebrates the region’s 20th year of freedom from British control with The Legend of Mulan, a folktale about

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Saturday, April 15, 2017

Review: Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells by Anna Winter

"A profoundly imaginative, sad and humorous exploration of agony and loss, of meaning and its absence". Review by Anna Winter. The post Review: Betroffenheit at Sadler’s Wells appeared…

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

My First Ballet: Cinderella review at the Peacock Theatre, London – ‘sanitised and saccharine’ by Anna Winter

English National Ballet’s My First Ballet production of Cinderella is a production with noble intentions, danced with conviction by a talented cast

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Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Review: Jewels at the Royal Opera House by Anna Winter

Cut-glass assertions of privilege: Anna Winter is entranced by the Royal Ballet's 50th anniversary revival of George Balanchine's classic triptych. The post Review: Jewels at the Royal Opera…

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Friday, April 7, 2017

Review: Early Adventures at Sadler’s Wells by Anna Winter

Like Brideshead without the grief: Anna Winter reviews a revival of Matthew Bourne's younger creations. The post Review: Early Adventures at Sadler’s Wells appeared first on Exeunt Mag…

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Friday, March 17, 2017

Yamato: The Challengers review at Peacock Theatre, London – ‘exhilarating’ by Anna Winter

The drum has a perennial, primal power over humankind: it stirs the instincts for ritual, fighting, dancing, and probably mating. Even the

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Monday, March 6, 2017

Ballet Black review at Barbican, London – ‘an inventive, witty Red Riding Hood’ by Anna Winter

While some of the pieces in Ballet Black’s latest triple bill are underwhelming, others are inspired. The neoclassical reveries in Michael Corder’s

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Friday, March 3, 2017

Film review: Dancer – ‘engaging documentary about Sergei Polunin’ by Anna Winter

In 2012, the astonishingly talented Sergei Polunin was 22 and the youngest ever principal dancer at the Royal Ballet when he suddenly

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Thursday, March 2, 2017

Maliphantworks review at the Print Room, London – ‘scintillating’ by Anna Winter

The Coronet, a gloomy and atmospheric former cinema, seems an appropriate venue in which to celebrate Russell Maliphant, a choreographer for whom

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Monday, February 27, 2017

The Suffocating Truth review at Asylum, London – ‘crassly self-indulgent’ by Anna Winter

In 2013, Canadian dancer Lukas McFarlane won Sky TV’s talent show Got to Dance. Then aged 20, he wowed the judges with

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Saturday, February 25, 2017

Danza Contemporanea de Cuba review at Barbican, London – ‘exquisitely danced’ by Anna Winter

Danza Contemporanea de Cuba comprises performers with stupendous technique. The company also displays a fine-tuned sense of drama and exuberance in their

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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Mother Africa review at Peacock Theatre, London – ‘joyful and dazzling’ by Anna Winter

What better way to assuage the dreary and drizzling onslaught of Storm Doris (and life in general) than with Mother Africa. Watching

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Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Getting Dressed review at Sadler’s Wells, London – ‘lovely, lively and engaging’ by Anna Winter

Getting Dressed is a charming dance piece for children that plunges its young audience into a colourful world of sartorial-based revelry. It

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Friday, February 10, 2017

Northern Ballet, the lean company that takes the road less travelled by Anna Winter

For a repository of northern steel, look towards Leeds city centre at a striking six-storey, grey and glass building next to West

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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Kiss and Cry review at Barbican Centre, London – ‘startling and intricate’ by Anna Winter

With startling simplicity and intricate cleverness, Kiss and Cry conjures up entire worlds of bittersweet emotion. It tells the story of a

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Monday, January 16, 2017

Blak Whyte Gray review at Barbican Centre, London – ‘pure physical poetry’ by Anna Winter

In Blak Whyte Gray, hip-hop dance company Boy Blue Entertainment extend the expressive capabilities of their form in fascinating style. Choreographed by

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Friday, January 13, 2017

Barons Perches review at Platform Theatre, London – ‘clever and surreal’ by Anna Winter

Acrobat and trampolinist Mathurin Bolze returns to the London International Mime Festival with a mind-bending and utterly compelling sequel to his 2005

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Thursday, January 12, 2017

Giselle review at Coliseum, London – ‘Alina Cojocaru is exquisite’ by Anna Winter

English National Ballet triumphed last year with Akram Khan’s re-imagined Giselle. Now they return to the rustic Rhineland with Mary Skeaping’s traditional

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Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Smashed: Special Edition review at Peacock Theatre, London – ‘stunningly skilful’ by Anna Winter

Gandini Juggling’s Smashed, inspired by the work of Pina Bausch, involves 22 performers negotiating dozens of apples, chairs and a chintzy tea

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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

National Ballet of China’s The Peony Pavilion review at Sadler’s Wells, London – ‘mesmeric’ by Anna Winter

National Ballet of China’s The Peony Pavilion is a work of enthralling theatrical magic. It’s a strange, sensuous East-meets-West concoction of neoclassical

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Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Ballet Cymru review at Sadler’s Wells, London – ‘bright and buoyant’ by Anna Winter

Spirited young company Ballet Cymru celebrate the centenary of Roald Dahl’s birth with two lively tales from Revolting Rhymes, the Cardiff-born storyteller’s

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