247 stories by "Sanjoy Roy"
Barbican, LondonPina Bausch's "travelogue" works are less portraits of places than composites of haphazard snapshots, each scene filtered through the weird and sometimes wonderful lenses of …
Lilian Baylis, LondonWith his grey shorts, buttoned-up shirt and floppy hair, Thibault Lac looks like a serious schoolboy reciting his homework as he explains the title of the piece we are a…
Sadler's Wells, LondonFor three days each spring, the Breakin' Convention festival turns Sadler's Wells into a hip-hop hive, every foyer, studio and auditorium abuzz with workshops and shows…
Linbury, LondonPlatforms for emerging artists are often required to jettison coherence in favour of choreographic diversity. The stylistic lurches between pieces can leave you a little seasi…
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe annual Flamenco festival at Sadler's Wells has always showcased the diversity of flamenco. This year's central gala performance was a welcome opportunity …
Sadler's Wells, LondonLin Hwai-Min's White, for his company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, is a work in three parts made at two different times: the first section in 1998, the rest in 2…
The Place, LondonThis year's Dance Umbrella festival sees contemporary dance acknowledging its own history. The latest programme to feature rare revivals of old works is by Richard Alston Da…
An American experimental stalwart who went from avant garde work with found objects to finding a visual style for Philip GlassIn shortLook at a portrait of Lucinda Childs's face ("like Cathe…
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonCandoco certainly don't play safe in their programming. For the 20th-anniversary tour of this integrated company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, the centrep…
Peacock theatre, LondonA while into Shaun Parker's dancework Happy as Larry you start asking: just how happy was Larry anyway? For although programme and publicity suggest that the piece is …
Sadler's Wells, LondonTwo images keep coming to mind during Emanuel Gat's Brilliant Corners: birds and brains. The group sequences embody them most vividly. In the opening, for example, the …
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonJean Abreu has taken a bold step with Inside. The feline fluidity and spacious abstraction that marked his earlier pieces are now alloyed with a new element of ps…
Sadler's Wells, LondonBelgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a huge fan of comic books, Japanese manga in particular. And perhaps that's the problem with his new work TeZukA, inspired…
Merce Cunningham's legacy tour, a triple treat from the Birmingham Royal Ballet and a cross-dressing comedyAkram Khan Company: DeshChoreographer Akram Khan may perform less than he used to, …
From 1950s Beijing to this year's Edinburgh festival, China's national ballet braved revolution and reforms to become a leading presence on the world stageIn shortThe National Ballet of Chin…
Coliseum, LondonTango is a dance of grace and danger, a dance that embodies desire in its web of glances, advances and evasions, a dance that inspires deep devotion from its followers " a da…
Coliseum, LondonRecently, Carlos Acosta has been branching out from ballet superstardom. Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself an…
Barbican, LondonThe Brisbane-based Circa troupe was founded in 1987, but its current identity comes courtesy of director Yaron Lifschitz, who took over in 2004. A trained theatre director wh…
Sadler's Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter rocks. No, really. The Israeli-born choreographer and composer was once in a rock group " and in Political Mother, more than any other piece, it shows. …
From Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar " and hemlines " of dance for everTwo enduring loves span the life of French choreographer Roland P…
Linbury Studio Theatre, LondonThere's a revolving-door feel to Cocteau Voices, a double bill of dance and opera that spins around the same themes " desire, absence, delusion " from two contr…
O2 Arena, London"Ballet rocks!" is a phrase increasingly bandied about by enthusiastic dance fans. Ballet has indeed been bursting its opera-house laces, with high-profile appearances in a K…
Sadler's Wells, LondonYou don't look for coherence in the works of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, you go to experience them. Mirror and Music (2009) is characteristic: a loose-kn…
Choreographer and performer whose troupe dance along the edge of physical expression, forging a sensory style all their ownIn shortHis company's name means "crow", but Saburo Teshigawara is …
A pillar of modern choreography, the US octogenarian once turned George W Bush's walk into a danceIn short Although neither a pioneer nor a radical of American modern dance, Paul Taylor is s…
