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Wednesday, October 12, 2016

'It's not Bob and Patti: The Ballet': new show celebrates Mapplethorpe and Smith by Lyndsey Winship

Reading the memoir Just Kids led choreographer Fleur Darkin to create a dance tribute to the photographer’s flower portraits and the punk poet‘The colour is so alive and so free, it almo…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:22AM
Monday, October 3, 2016

Unknown pleasures: do we enjoy art more if it's anonymous? by Lyndsey Winship

The Royal Court has staged work by top-secret playwrights and Dance Umbrella is presenting new commissions by unnamed choreographers. Mystery performances can be liberating for artists as we…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:26AM
Monday, August 29, 2016

Jig your memory: the dance marathon that sends us spiralling into the past by Lyndsey Winship

From bopping to Top of the Pops to a failed Cats audition, Quarantine’s five-hour show Wallflower asks its performers to recall every time they’ve ever danced Jump to it: the must-see da…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:09AM
Thursday, December 17, 2015

It's great when you skate: how ice dance became cool by Lyndsey Winship

This season’s ice shows offer sequins, fireworks and dancers dressed as Disney characters but there are moves afoot to introduce arty elements to the formWith Christmas this year comes a f…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AM
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Into the groove: how we taught Madonna to krump and thrust by Lyndsey Winship

The Queen of Pop has always expressed herself through her moves. But who shows Madonna the steps? Her dance crew reveal all – from brutal all-night rehearsals to performing on her command …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PM
Monday, November 9, 2015

In ballet, real-life romance is the enemy of onstage chemistry | Lyndsey Winship by Lyndsey Winship

So, Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin are a couple. But the passion of dancers should be about scaling dizzy heights, not curling up with a box setWhen Sadler’s Wells theatre announced it…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AM
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Get ur Drake on: Hotline Bling's dance moves examined by Lyndsey Winship

The wedding dancefloor would appear to be the main source of inspiration for the Canadian rapper’s Hotline Bling video, but actually he channels thousands of years of dance culture On firs…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PM
Thursday, July 16, 2015

'Understand – it hurts': giants of dance reveal its tolls and triumphs by Lyndsey Winship

Late nights, early mornings, punishing schedules, stage fright, pulled hamstrings, failed auditions … Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Lauren Cuthbertson, Wayne McGregor, Matthew Bourne and mor…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AM
Monday, July 6, 2015

Flexing: the 'bone-breaking' dance craze that bubbled up from Brooklyn by Lyndsey Winship

A shoulder twisted out of its socket? A back flip from the second floor of a building? Those are just the sort of show-stopping moves turning New York’s latest street dance craze into an i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AM
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

'I’m surprised he still wants to do it': dancing with your ex by Lyndsey Winship

Dancers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet made D’Avant when they were a couple. How does it feel to perform it now they are no longer together?For some people, working with an ex would…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Friday, April 17, 2015

Sore muscles and joyful leaps: the quest to be crowned BBC Young Dancer by Lyndsey Winship

From ballet to hip-hop, 20 finalists train for thousands of hours in the hope of winning BBC Four’s first contest for dancers aged 16 to 20Twenty-year-old Jonadette Carpio strides across t…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AM
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Kevin O'Hare: 'We’ve got choreographers that people around the world want' by Lyndsey Winship

As the Royal Ballet announces its new season, artistic director defends quality of British dancers and says he is addressing lack of female choreographers In his Covent Garden office, the Ro…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Thursday, April 9, 2015

'Choose your path': lose yourself among the dancers in Margate's Maze by Lyndsey Winship

Performers and audiences bounce, climb and play in a spongy immersive world created by choreographer Jasmin Vardimon and architect Ron Arad for Margate’s Turner Contemporary gallery“Foll…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Monday, December 8, 2014

Movies that made moves: five of the best dance shows based on films by Lyndsey Winship

As the Gene Kelly classic An American in Paris makes it to the stage, we celebrate some other big-screen stories with unexpectedly light feet• How Christopher Wheeldon adapted An American …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PM
Sunday, November 2, 2014

The doctor will dance for you now by Lyndsey Winship

Why are French clowns invading hospitals and should there be dancing in the wards? Meet the performers injecting fresh blood into medical training Continue reading...

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PM
Sunday, July 20, 2014

Almost human: why is art so obsessed with lifesize dolls? by Lyndsey Winship

From Coppélia and Pygmalion to Mannequin and Buffybot, artists love playing games with lifesize dolls. It's a trail of lust, obsession and beheadingsCoppélia is one of the sillier co…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM
Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Carrie Cracknell: why my Medea needed some killer moves by Lyndsey Winship

Infidelity, revenge, infanticide the Greek tragedy Medea has it all. Or does it? The director of the National Theatre's new production explains why it had to have danceWhen Carrie Cracknell…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AM
Thursday, April 17, 2014

The new lords of the dance by Lyndsey Winship

When Matthew Bourne invited non-professional dancers to take part in his new show based on William Golding's novel, the response from local lads around the country was explosive'Why did we e…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AM
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Dances with wings: Jonathan Watkins on choreographing Kes by Lyndsey Winship

Can Kes, the classic tale of a Yorkshire boy whose life is transformed by a kestrel, work as ballet? Meet the dancer from Barnsley who is making it happenIn the spring of 2010, two budding c…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Friday, July 5, 2013

Mårten Spångberg, the bad boy of contemporary dance by Lyndsey Winship

The Dane likes his audience to leave their phones on and has a troupe that's the choreographic equivalent of Occupy. He explains why he's aiming for 'something neo-liberalism can't cope with…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AM
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Sir Frederick Ashton's Romeo & Juliet – review by Lyndsey Winship

Coliseum, LondonDoes dancing with your real-life lover make for a more fizzing chemistry onstage? Ballet's latest on/offstage romance is between two hotshot young Russians, Ivan Vasiliev and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PM