Tuesday, January 28, 2014
I’ve spent so long getting my dance calendar together that I’ve already missed some key shows from Resolution – The Place’s platform for fledging and established choreographic talent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMTuesday, January 14, 2014
I often have to answer the question “but why did they train in dance to do that? That wasn’t exactly dancing, was it?” when seeing contemporary work. This week the roles were switched …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
From the cavewoman workout plan to sweaty yoga, we’re not short on quirky exercise options… But it is the new year and thus I must make an attempt at getting my flabacious butt into …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMMonday, January 6, 2014
Wembley Arena, London: This is a stunningly conceived chocolate box of a show. There is the age-old tale we know so well wrapped around elements of family pantomime, Cirque Du Soleil and Wes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMTuesday, December 24, 2013
There’s controversy every Christmas when it comes to ballet. Theatreland comes alive in the festive season from family pantomimes to burlesque renditions of the nativity. But in the dance …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Wyllyotts Theatre, Potters Bar: For a Christmas treat at Potters Barr this year, the Wyllyotts have combined a great cast and solid production values with local wannabe starlets. One of the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMMonday, December 2, 2013
With the current nostalgia for all things Dr Seuss, now is surely a good time to treat your little ones to the zany nonsense-rhyme stories as they are bought to life on stage. Philip Rowntre…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:07PMThursday, October 3, 2013
Artsdepot, London: Michael Hulls' lighting of this show is inspired. It is so specific to the dance - it's as if the lighting is the starting point and the movement follows.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Coliseum, London: I must have seen at least 20 different versions of Swan Lake, but I've never seen one where Odette and the swans are heroin-addicted prostitutes and Rothbart, a dealer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMWednesday, July 31, 2013
Coliseum, London: Carlos Acosta has gathered the best of the London ballet clique for his 40th birthday celebrations at the London Coliseum. The program is a selection of thrilling vignettes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMThursday, July 4, 2013
Coliseum, London: The Boston Ballet have really pulled it out of the bag for their 50th anniversary season. Programme 1 offers a diverse mixture of neo-classical, modern and contemporary bal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AMMonday, June 10, 2013
02 Live Quarter, London: Cast your mind back to when you were a child and you were desperate for your toys to come to life. Well for children seeing In The Night Garden Live, it's like …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:15AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Linbury Studio, London: Liam Scarlett, the Royal Ballet's artist in residence, is taking no prisoners. This is no ordinary fairy tale. Even the brothers Grimm couldn't have predict…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMFriday, April 19, 2013
The Place, London: Once again, the bi-annual Place Prize For dance brings audiences a diverse range of contemporary artistic exploration at the cutting edge of the art form. It also gives th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Coliseum, London: The Russians have a reputation for producing large, lavish, production heavy spectacles - and the Mikhailovsky Ballet St Petersburg did so at the beginning of their London …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMColiseum, London: This modern triple bill by the Mikhailovsky Ballet St Petersburg is the last in its London run, rounding off a varied season.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMMonday, February 25, 2013
February 22-25: Strange things happen when the moon is full. But considering that this is Pina Bausch we are talking about, things could be a whole lot stranger. Compared with some of her ea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: No one does tragi-comic dance quite like Pina Bausch. Seeing her company, here recently for the World Cities 2012 season, is like seeing old friends. Familiar faces a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMMonday, January 21, 2013
Palace Theatre, Watford: The Ballet Boyz are in a strong position at the moment. Rather than downsizing their now 11-year-old company after their performing careers came to an elegant end, t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMMonday, January 14, 2013
Royal Festival Hall, London: The most surprising (and successful) thing about cabaret diva Meow Meow's dark and sparkling Christmas revue show is how quickly the action switches track -…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Radlett Centre, Radlett: It's a tale as old as time, but not in the Technicolor Disney sense. Good versus evil, a traditional love story and a right royal knees up all come together in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMMonday, November 19, 2012
The Place, London: Work by Rosemary Butcher isn't for the apathetic. You really have to draw your own conclusions, create your own narrative and search for the meaning in the physical m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:24AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Wembley Arena, London: Ice Age Live is perfect for a good old kids' holiday romp. It's like the best night at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, with a sprinkle of Twentieth Century Fox.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:57AMRoyal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet proves its 21st century stance in three works of great scope spanning modern, pedestrian and neo-classical ballet.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Lilian Baylis Studio, London: I thought the best thing about the new programme of Jonzi D's work was poet and songstress OneNess Sankara, after she performed a work with incredible stru…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMMonday, October 22, 2012
Lilian Baylis Studio, London: Performing his show on the London stage for the first time in 10 years, the most obvious question about Jonzi D's Lyrikal Fearta is whether or not it'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMFriday, October 19, 2012
Barbican, London: I can't think of anything better than going to a dance performance where Jarvis Cocker appears onstage as a Halloween zombie, rocking out with his band as dancers grin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Radlett Centre: These Tinga Tinga Tales are a perfect example of how an idea, no matter how simple, can be brilliantly produced to make an authentic and enjoyable children's show.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: Sasha Waltz's dancers are athletes - strong, lithe and inspiring. Whistling through time to silence, a regular percussive beat, or epochal orchestral symphonies,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Sadler's Wells, September 7: Last year, emerging choreographer James Cousins won the inaugral New Adventures Choreographic Award and the prize fund that went with it. Tonight he produces the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:24PMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Arena, St Albans: It's often said that children are the harshest of critics. Thankfully, in the case of Angelina Ballerina The Mousical - Live On Stage, that's not the case. Any sh…
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