Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Would this modern dance pioneer be better known had she not fallen in step with the Nazis?Reading on mobile? Click here to view.As the debate gathers around the current imbalance between mal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMWould this modern dance pioneer be better known had she not fallen in step with the Nazis? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMSaturday, May 18, 2013
Bern Ballett: Witch-hunt | The Royal BalletBern Ballett: Witch-hunt, LondonCathy Marston has been artistic director of Bern Ballett for six years, hosting works by leading choreographers suc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
It's hardly shocking that so few Royal Ballet dancers are homegrown nationals – dance in this country has long been enriched by foreign talent. We should celebrate itIs the Royal Ballet fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMMonday, May 13, 2013
A new book argues that this specialist theatre has helped make the city a magnet for the dance worldWilliam Forsythe thinks that "every city in the world should have a Sadler's Wells". In 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMSaturday, May 11, 2013
Dublin dance festival | VarmintsDublin dance festivalThis year's festival embraces an exceptional range of work, with Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen opening events with a Stravinsky dou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Linbury Studio, LondonAs Liam Scarlett premieres his first full-length narrative ballet, it's clear he has some very nasty things in the woodshed of his imagination. Not even the brothers Gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMMonday, May 6, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen London hosted the first Breakin' Convention a decade ago, hip-hop was widely assumed to be worlds away from mainstream dance. Now celebrating its 10th anniversary,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMNiall Ferguson is wrong: writing on Lopokova, Keynes' wife, I found evidence of a warm and loving relationship in which both wanted childrenIt's hard to count the ways in which Niall Ferguso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMSunday, May 5, 2013
Purcell Room, LondonThe hip-hop company Rubberbandance come with an unusually exotic provenance. While director Victor Quijada started out in the streets of Los Angeles, his co-director Anne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, May 2, 2013
Can you bodypop with one leg? Can you dance to music you can't hear? As Breakin' Convention opens in London, the crew of ILL-Abilities explain how anything's possible in hip-hopHis nickname …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMMonday, April 29, 2013
The wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThe wild women of 1920s dance didn't just get everyone doing the Charleston and the Grizzly Bear. Stars like Josephine Baker and Tallulah Bankhead also played a pivotal role in women's emanc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMThursday, April 25, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's work has always been about making connections: between different dance forms; religions and rituals; art and science. But in Puz/zle, it's the ur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMFrom Brooklyn to South Africa breakdancing is cross-pollinating with other forms to create vibrant, gravity-defying new hybridsIt's been a decade since hip-hop impresario Jonzi D orchestrate…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Place theatre, LondonThe judges for this year's Place prize might not be declaring their winner until Saturday, but already the public are deciding. Audiences at each of the 10 acts in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:58PMFriday, April 19, 2013
Coliseum, LondonAs the recently appointed director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo has been expertly spinning a new grown-up, sexy and very contemporary image for her company. And ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMAn experiment at London's Trinity Laban Conservatoire aims to assess the success gap between male and female dance professionals – putting women back on the front footWhere have all the wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt was brave of National Ballet of Canada to mark their first London visit in 26 years with a production of Romeo and Juliet. The Sergei Prokofiev classic is at the hea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen The Rite of Spring premiered in 1913, it detonated a cultural explosion, whose continuing effects are being explored in this season of Rite-inspired works at Sadle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMWednesday, April 10, 2013
London ColiseumRarely has a dance production attracted so much gossip and speculation as Peter Schaufuss's Midnight Express, which last week looked as though it might be cancelled due to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMFriday, April 5, 2013
Despite claims that he's on the straight and narrow, the talented young dancer has quit a new show days before opening night. Is ballet culture itself to blame? Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:29AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Nijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky's most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMMonday, April 1, 2013
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:11AMMatthew Bourne relocates a 19th-century ballet to drug-fuelled Glasgow, Sadler's Wells celebrates the centenary of the Rite of Spring, and National Ballet of Canada returns to the UK Continu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMSunday, March 31, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonDance companies around the UK are waking up to the importance of the family audience. Yet in contrast to English National Ballet's My First Cinderella or Northern Balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Coliseum, LondonThe Mikhailovsky's Giselle is very old-school: charmingly staged and with carefully detailed mime that tells you everything you need to know about the plot. I don't know of a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonAs a dancer, Israel Galván is touched by the kind of genius that puts him into a category of his own. The Seville-born flamenco artist throws out such a variety of rhy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:11PMMonday, March 25, 2013
One romantic, the other demonic – the two very different Giselles danced by Olesya Novikova and Natalia Osipova make for a fascinating up-close comparisonReading this on mobile? Click here…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMOne romantic, the other demonic – the two very different Giselles danced by Olesya Novikova and Natalia Osipova make for a fascinating up-close comparison Continue reading...
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