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CD: Drop The Lime, Enter The Night (Trouble and Bass)

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CD: The Whigs, In The Dark (Kartel)

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CD: Sarabeth Tucek: Get Well Soon (rel 14 April)

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CD: The Kills, Blood Pressures (Domino)

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CD Lykke Li: Wounded Rhymes (rel 28 Feb)

Kieron Tyler

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CD: Deerhoof, Deerhoof vs Evil (ATP)

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CD: The Streets, Computers and Blues (679)

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Dave St-Pierre Company, Un Peu de Tendresse, Sadler's Wells

When asked if I wanted to go and see two dozen naked Canadians doing audience participation, the answer was, self-evidently, nonononononononono. And then, for good measure, NO. Well, I’m here to tell you, I was wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong. And I...

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Manon, Royal Ballet

If an excess of enthusiasm troubles you, look away now. Because this is less a review, more a love letter. Alina Cojocaru has been astonishing audiences for more than a dozen years. Regular ballet-goers attend her performances expecting to be...

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Scènes de Ballet/ Voluntaries/ The Rite of Spring, Royal Ballet

Programming a mixed bill is a very delicate art, and what seems like an interesting mix to one person might appear to be an entirely random series of choices to another. The Royal’s new triple is the perfect example. The music – Stravinsky, Poulenc...

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Bern:Ballett, Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House

'Clara', choreographed by Cathy Marston

Being a choreographer is harder than it looks. Steps, movement, are just the beginning. On top of that you need to have a sense of theatricality, and then, even more, you need to be able to convey your ideas, through movement alone, to the...

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Rambert, Cardoon Club/ Roses/ Monolith, Sadler’s Wells

Another of Paul Taylor's masterpieces: 'Roses', in rehearsal

Paul Taylor's Roses is called Roses because, well, because it is. There are no roses here, no flowery sentiment, no overwrought angst and emotion. This, one of Taylor’s most beautifully serene works, is the smell of roses on a still May evening:...

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