Sunday, July 10, 2011
Ethan Stiefel is a giant of US ballet. He tells Judith Mackrell why he's leaving the bustling Big Apple for a place with 4m people and 70m sheepThe capital of New Zealand was once thought of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46PMFriday, July 8, 2011
Hofesh Schechter: Political Mother – The Choreographer's Cut, LondonHofesh Shechter may be one of the UK's most serious dance creators but he also knows how to sell his material hard. Back…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMWednesday, July 6, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonAt 46, Sylvie Guillem may have abandoned her former ballerina roles, but she is still one of the most astonishing dancers on stage today. Even though the youthful gloss…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44PMFriday, July 1, 2011
Sylvie Guillem: 6000 Miles Away, LondonEver since Sylvie Guillem retired from the Royal Ballet stage, UK audiences have watched her reinvention through an extraordinary series of collaborati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMThursday, June 30, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe dance stage has seen few more fascinating casts than the transvestite and transsexual cabaret artists who perform in Gardenia, Alain Platel's latest work for Ballet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMFriday, June 24, 2011
Rex Levitates Dance Company: Fast Portraits, DublinLiz Roche is an artist with a serious track record in experimental work having performed with Rosemary Butcher, Jodi Melnick and others. Sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSadlers Wells, LondonSol Picó, the Catalan dancer and choreographer, is 44, and El Llac de les Mosques (The Lake of Flies) is a tribute to her own mid-life crisis. At Sadler's Wells on Thur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:39PMTuesday, June 21, 2011
On a short trip to the US, I found NYC stuffed to the gills with foreign ballet – plus a theatrical fashion show from the late Alexander McQueenThe spring–summer ballet season is always …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMFriday, June 17, 2011
Hofesh Schechter Company: In Good Company, LondonThe dancers in Hofesh Shechter's company are excellent performers but they're also closely involved in the creation of their choreographer's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMWednesday, June 15, 2011
Swan, High WycombeMaybe there is more to a name than PR. The mid-scale Welsh company formerly known as Diversions has significantly raised its ambitions since vamping up its title. Not only …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, June 14, 2011
The Royal Ballet's decision to shun glitzier candidates in favour of O'Hare is sensible, as he arrives to his new post of director without any artistic ego"We have to talk about Kevin" is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMFriday, June 10, 2011
English National Ballet: Strictly Gershwin, LondonWhile the Royal Ballet aims to fill 10,000 seats at the O2, English National Ballet is vamping the Albert Hall with Derek Dean's Strictly Ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23PMRoyal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Strictly Gershwin was premiered three years ago, it had the feel of a one-off novelty, a neat alternative to the arena-scaled classics with which English Nation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMThursday, June 9, 2011
Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark's latest work was created for the vaulting industrial space of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is a venue that can easily swallow up a choreographer (hence th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:23PMTuesday, June 7, 2011
Judith Mackrell picks her favourite extracts from the Seeing, Doing, Knowing project, which invited primary school children to review a dance showNiamh Forde, Catton Grove Primary School, No…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMAn invitation to discuss dance criticism with a group of primary school children left me reeling – but impressedRead extracts from the reviews hereI'm used to giving lectures on dance crit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMMonday, June 6, 2011
The Place, LondonFrauke Requardt's latest work Episode is simultaneously one of the most controlled and most violently bizarre dance events I've reviewed in a long time.It's an odyssey …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMFriday, June 3, 2011
Nats Nus Dansa: Momentari, LondonChildren's dance-theatre is emerging as one of the more interesting new genres, moving a long way from the staple fare of the Nutcracker and the Snowman. In …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:14PMSadler's Wells, LondonAs promised, the nudity in Dave St-Pierre's Tendresse is, literally, in your face. The evening has scarcely begun before a group of blonde-wigged naked men are scamperi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMMonday, May 30, 2011
What's it like to dance naked on stage? And how does it feel if the audience walk out? Seasoned nude performers talk to Judith MackrellWhen Sally Marie was told she had to strip off in the n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMRoyal Opera House, LondonAshton's Scènes de Ballet comes as close to perfect as any ballet I know. Its choreographic patterns evolve with a miraculous, skin-prickling precision, and underly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AM'After so many years, this theatre has become my life, it's almost family'Monica Mason was 20 and still a very junior member of the Royal Ballet when she was presented with one of the defin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, May 27, 2011
Dave St-Pierre: Un peu de tendresse bordel de merde!, LondonCanadian choreographer Dave St-Pierre has acquired a degree of notoriety: not only for the physical extremes to which he has pushe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, May 26, 2011
Linbury Studio Theatre, LondonTo say Cathy Marston runs Bern:Ballett with a fearless spirit is only half a compliment. The work she programmes is serious, impassioned and different – resis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMWednesday, May 25, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonMusic creates the challenges as well as the pleasures of Rambert's latest mixed bill – and nowhere more so than in Paul Taylor's 1985 Roses. Wagner's Siegfried Idyll,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMFriday, May 20, 2011
Barn:Ballett – Clara, Howl, LondonBern:Ballett is one of the few significant European ballet companies run by a woman, its artistic director being British choreographer Cathy Marston. For …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, May 19, 2011
Brighton DomeSidi Larbi Cherkaoui's 2009 work Apocrifu is all about words, and the terrible power of language to antagonise and divide. But, while there is a great sadness haunting this piec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMonday, May 16, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor is a choreographer who takes his ideas from notoriously unballetic sources, such as neuro-science and technology. And his latest work, Live Fire Exerc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMFriday, May 13, 2011
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: Apocrifu, BrightonFlemish-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has always displayed a fearless approach to dance-theatre, willing to negotiate massively ambitiou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSadler's Wells, LondonI love dance programmes that are dedicated to just one choreographer's work. Run of the mill in modern dance, they are rare in ballet, where the imperative to create an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMFriday, May 6, 2011
Dutch National Ballet: Hans van Manen – Master Of Dance, LondonHans van Manen still ranks as the signature choreographer of Dutch National Ballet, with some 120 ballets to his name, and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
