Friday, November 15, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Shanghai-born Yuan Yuan Tan and Taiwanese Fang-Yi Sheu are both extraordinary dancers and it is a welcome opportunity to see them in a series of pieces uncluttered by…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMFriday, November 8, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: For his latest work, multi-cultural dancemaker Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui immerses himself in the vertical expression of a horizontal desire. It takes two to tango, they sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMWednesday, November 6, 2013
Riverside Studios, London: New York's bohemian hotel was until recently under threat from property developers so the latest production from the Cardiff-based Earthfall is bang on the mo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMThursday, October 31, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Hofesh Schecter's works are, by his own admission, an expression of his personal history. His troubled childhood, the shock to his system of National Service in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMThursday, October 24, 2013
Barbican, London: Few would accuse Boy Blue Entertainment's founders of lacking ambition. The follow-up to their hit show, Pied Piper, extends the concept of hip-hop narrative to embrac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMWednesday, October 23, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: There is a sense of creative unity in a Rambert performance that is quite unmatched by other companies. The three works presented here play to the company's egal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Given that Don Quixote and Sancho Panza are reduced to minor characters in this ballet, Marius Petipa ought to be done for misrepresentation, but Carlos Acosta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Peacock, London: The latest incarnation of Vardimon's 2007 courtroom drama extends the interplay between words and physical action. On Merle Hensel's revolving set the company acts…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMThursday, August 15, 2013
Coliseum, London: In an extraordinary display of cross-cultural fertilisation, Shanghai Ballet Company brings its contemporary dance version of one of Britain's best-loved novels for th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Few would accuse the Bolshoi of reticence in their productions. Minimalism is not in the company's vocabulary. Grigorovich's revised version of the great…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:34AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: A lesser company might have buckled beneath the weight of scandals and bad press that have dogged Moscow's premiere ballet company in the last few months. But…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMFriday, July 12, 2013
A writer who marched to the beat of a different drummer, Snoo Wilson was a unique voice in British theatre. Although regarded as one of the group of post-1960s playwrights making waves in th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:34AMColiseum, London: Well, this is different - from the opening strains of a real barrel organ before the orchestra kicks in, it is clear that Roland Petit's version of the Petipa classic …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMThursday, July 4, 2013
Army veterans of recent military campaigns are finding that Shakespeare can help them rebuild their confidence and offer them relief from the psychological scars of warfare
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Widely regarded as the most adventurous pioneer in the landscape of classical/contemporary dance fusion, William Forsythe applies the rigorous discipline of the forme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Village Underground, London: As part of <a href="http://www.spitalfieldsmusic.org.uk/whats-on/summer-festival-2013/early-opera-company-monteverdi-ballets/">The Spitalfields S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMThursday, May 30, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Akram Khan's contribution to The Rite of Spring centenary celebrations is the most wayward so far. An acronymn for In The Mind Of Igor, ITMOI includes meditation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Royal Opera House: Choreographers have often attracted spectacular bedfellows and Wayne McGregor is no exception. For his first attempt at a narrative ballet he has invited wordsmith Audrey …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, May 8, 2013
Peacock Theatre, London: Although nominally based on the classic comedy of cross-dressing, Some Like It Hot, Kate Prince's bubbling dance-ical has a much wider arena of reference. A soc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Anyone who believes that ballet is little more than a repository of pretty myths and innocuous romanticism should be forced to see Mayerling. Sex, drugs, suicide a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AMFriday, April 19, 2013
London Coliseum: As a corrective to the pretty narrative ballets toured by ENB as a financial imperative, this triple bill is illuminated by a high voltage eroticism. Jiri Kylian's Peti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMMonday, April 15, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: As part of a three-programme celebration to mark the centenary of Stravinsky's ground-breaking The Rite of Spring, Fabulous Beast's Irish interpretation of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Coliseum, London: The abrupt departure of Sergei Polunin and Igor Zelensky from the production days before it was due to open hangs heavy over the gala night, given in aid of the Dancer for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Coliseum, London: Since its Paris premiere in 1841, Giselle has undergone many changes and makeovers. The Russian version - revised from the original by Perrot and Petipa - offers the most s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: The tenth London Flamenco Festival concluded in fine style with a fistful of Spain's greatest dancers colluding in a foot-stomping, shawl-whirling, castanet-clic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: <a href="http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the-metamorphosis-by-arthur-pita">Arthur Pita's dance/theatre interpretation of Kafka's n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMSadler's Wells, London: The grandson of gypsy flamenco master Farruco and son of singer El Moreno and dancer La Farruca, Farruquito is flamenco down to his marrow. Similarly, his guest partn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Place, London: Scottish Dance Theatre has been making a name for itself as purveyors of quirky, offbeat dance works since its inception in 1986. Finding and h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Linbury Studio, London: The award-winning company of black and Asian dancers founded by Cassa Pancho in 2001 comes storming back onto the Linbury stage with a toothsome quartet of works. A b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Royal Opera House: One 85-year-old masterpiece, two premieres. The latest triple bill from the Royal Ballet shoots itself in the foot by opening with Balanchine's most perfect work, aga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMMonday, February 18, 2013
Birmingham Hippodrome: Originally made for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, David Bintley's exotic ballet (receiving its UK premiere) just about manages its shake off the heavy pan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:42AM 
