Monday, 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Birmingham Hippodrome: Originally made for the National Ballet of Japan in 2008, David Bintley's exotic ballet (receiving its UK premiere) just about manages its shake off the heavy pan…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 05:42AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
Phoenix, London: It's show time, folks. Strictly Come Dancing stars Vincent and Flavia's attractive production is an illustration of how profoundly dance has infiltrated the mainst…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Subtitled The Shogun and the English Samurai, this cross-cultural play was premiered in 2009 in Japan and revived for a second season in 2012. With the help of the RS…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMFriday, February 1, 2013
Barbican Theatre, London: Although Deborah Colker's latest work is based on Pushkin's Eugene Onegin it could hardly be more different from John Cranko's ballet from the same s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMThursday, January 31, 2013
Peacock Theatre, London: There have been a lot of personnel changes in this youthful company over the last two years. Some dancers have left to be replaced by equally arresting talents, Quar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMMonday, January 21, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Stepping in for the injured Johan Kobborg, Canadian guest principal artist Jason Reilly quickly establishes his authority in the title role. If his Onegin is close…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: Celebrating its tenth anniversary, Will Tuckett's dance/theatre adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's immortal book is as fresh and inventive as ever. Due…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Peacock Theatre, London: My first encounter with Raymond Briggs' enchanting story was the animated film in 1982. Three decades later, I am still captivated by its spell. Somewhere benea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Barbican Theatre, London: Youth projects on this scale are rare enough to warrant serious attention. The fact that this multi-platform entertainment is so successful is a bonus. Around 170 c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Sadler's Wells: It is rare that a dance audience has to run the gauntlet of protesters but Israel's Batsheva Ensemble couldn't have chosen a worse time for their London debut. Incr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: A triple bill of one of the 20th century's greatest choreographers is almost too rich a mix. But such is the variety of work produced by Kenneth MacMillan in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: Sixteen dancers cross the stage in unison. Always travelling in the same direction - stage right to stage left - they crawl, roll, drag, scrabble or run in a to the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Lilian Baylis Studio, London: Former Rambert dancer Yorke-Edgell created her company Yorke Dance Project in Los Angeles in 1998 and relocated to the UK in 2009. It is no surprise, therefore,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: Every time I think I have got the measure of Jasmin Vardimon she comes up with something that pulls the rug from beneath my preconceptions. Her latest work looks like…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMMonday, November 12, 2012
The Place, London: Charlotte Vincent's dance and theatre company has been creating provocative work since 1994 and the latest packs a considerable wallop on behalf of the sisterhood. A …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: The second part of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's latest work inspired by French music from the 14th century begins in the darkness before dawn. A man arrives at t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: The first in a two-part programme inspired by a form of mediaeval music known as ars subtilior, this is well up to Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMMonday, October 22, 2012
Peacock Theatre, London: Take a handful of Big Brother contestants, add a few competitors from The Great British Bake Off and fold in a couple of wannabe entrepreneurs from The Apprentice.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: The small New York company with the big reputation makes its UK debut with three achingly modern works. Founded in 2003, it has been assiduous in introducing cutting …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Robin Howard Dance Theatre, London: It is business as usual for Alston and his athletic company of dancers as they bring a mixed bag of work old and new to The Place.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMThursday, September 27, 2012
Birmingham Hippodrome : Something old, something new and something relatively youthful. The latest triple bill from Birmingham Royal Ballet, entitled Opposites Attract, is a subtle balancing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: Five world premieres and one UK premiere isn't a bad haul for a company debut. It demonstrates a high degree of confidence in the talents invo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMMonday, September 3, 2012
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London: Having been the propulsive heartbeat at the centre of the Olympics opening ceremony, percussionist Evelyn Glennie adds decorative layers of so…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMMonday, July 23, 2012
Brentford Lock, London: With their second ROH2 collaboration, composer Anne Dudley and former Python Terry Jones have turned from canine opera (The Doctor's Tale) to one involving the u…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Royal Opera House, London: In a unique and frankly hazardous collaboration, seven choreographers, three composers, three artists and two of Britain's greatest cultural institutions have…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Curve, Leicester: The inaugural work of Matthew Bourne's company New Adventures in 2002, Play Without Words is aptly titled. Not so much a ballet, yet more than a text-free drama, it ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMFriday, June 22, 2012
Barbican, London: Premiered in 2007, Pina Bausch's exploration of India is far more lyrical and contemplative than many of her other works in the World Cities series. Clearly entranced …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
Sadler's Wells, June 18-19, World Cities 2012 season runs until July 9: The hustle and bustle of Hong Kong's multi-faceted society provides ideal inspiration for Pina Bausch and her com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Barbican, June 15-16, World Cities 2012 season until July 9: Fourth in the ten-dance programme World Cities 2012, Ten Chi is Pina Bausch's take on Japan - in particular Saitama City clo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells Theatre, London: In spite of the title, Zombie Aporia, Daniel Linehan's new work, does not involve undead dancers staggering around the stage in sea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMThursday, May 10, 2012
The Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon: As one of the many international productions designed to celebrate the World Shakespeare Festival, the Brazilian Companhia BufoMecanica's radical vis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PM 
