Monday, December 4, 2017
Hopefully, this new documentary exposing Russian ballet's size zero culture will put dancers' plight in the spotlightThe Kirov Ballet, where one of the documentary's subjects now dances, per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24AMSunday, July 26, 2015
Hopefully, this new documentary exposing Russian ballet's size zero culture will put dancers' plight in the spotlightThe Kirov Ballet, where one of the documentary's subjects now dances, per…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMThursday, July 31, 2014
New Wimbledon Theatre, London: Surely, 20 years after Riverdance's heart-stirring cannons streamed into international consciousness on the Eurovision Song Contest, Irish dance has earne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Sadlers Wells, London: Now settled in to their South Bank home, Rambert look alert and on fine physical form. Their new programme, an ABC of contemporary choreographers from the past 40 year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMWednesday, March 12, 2014
Laban Theatre: The success of The Falling Song lies not in the gimmicky thrill of poles used to vault across the stage, tumbling apples creating havoc with the floor space or dancers face-pl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:22PMFriday, February 14, 2014
The Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury: A mixed bag is proffered for Richard Alston�s Spring Tour, but delve beyond the first piece and you will find intelligent explorations of poetry and music.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Royal Opera House: In her debut for the Royal Ballet here, Natalia Osipova gives everything of herself in a performance in which she enriches each tiny moment with such intensity and detail …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Replacing an injured Emma Maguire, Francesca Hayward makes for an exemplary Clara. Dewy and fresh-faced with stirrings of sensual awakenings, her dancing is crisp …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMFriday, June 28, 2013
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: A microscopic close-up of feces is not the most obvious choice of inspiration for a new dance piece, yet Gilbert and George's images and the manner in wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMThursday, April 25, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: PUZ/ZLE opens with a digital projection on a stone wall of an empty art gallery, the camera gliding through never-ending doorways as Cherkaoui's dancers, in real…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMFriday, October 19, 2012
Sadler's Wells London: Stealing snatches of women's poetry from the past 2,000 years and weaving them into a successful operatic accompaniment for contemporary dance was never going to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:29AMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Sadler's Wells : No other choreographer, to my knowledge, has produced work that can simultaneously shock and enchant, move and tickle like Pina Bausch and Palermo Palermo is exemplary of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMMonday, July 2, 2012
Barbican Theatre: The first half of Agua, Pina Bausch's 2001 celebration of all things Brazilian, is a ravishing tumble of whimsy, each arrival on the stage unexpected, charming and abs…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMMonday, June 11, 2012
E4 Udderbelly, Southbank Centre: It is no mean feat leading an audience through 60 years of Cuban dance history (1950s to present day) in the space of just an hour, but it is one that Havana…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Royal Opera House: In this evening of debuts, the whole company was in convivial spirits, shimmering through Macmillan's Freudian fairytale of discovery and awakening with a united, pol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, London: Evenings encouraging in-house choreography are happily becoming regular fixtures. The dancers know each other's strengths well enough to utilize them playf…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Ballet Preljocaj: Hollywood may want to take a leaf out of Angelin Preljocaj's book when attempting to rework fairytales for a new generation.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:26PMMonday, April 23, 2012
The Royal Opera House: For an evening of chocolate-box charm and easy balletic delights, there is nothing better than Sir Frederick Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee. The Royal Ballet's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PMFriday, March 16, 2012
The Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House: Shobana Jeyasingh's reputation as an adventurous innovator in contemporary dance continues to grow, and her new piece, DevKahanHai?/Where …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMMonday, February 13, 2012
The Print Room, London: In many respects, taking Alain Robbe-Grillet's 1957 novel, La Jalousie, and adapting it for a dance/sculpture collaboration makes perfect sense. With its strong …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AM 
