Dance
Mayerling, The Royal BalletThursday, 06 June 2013
So last night the Royal Ballet’s first couple, at shockingly short notice, gave their last performance with the company, in MacMillan’s Mayerling, a terrifying, piteous experience that I know I’ll never see surpassed. Johan Kobborg and Alina... Read more... |
iTMOi, Akram Khan Company, Sadler's Wells TheatreFriday, 31 May 2013
When the public “got” or did not “get” the original Rite of Spring of Nijinsky and Stravinsky exactly 100 years ago this week, they couldn't call on emotional logic or aesthetic familiarity or symbolic recognition to help. Only imaginative reflex... Read more... |
Raven Girl, Royal Ballet/ Witch-Hunt, Bern Ballett/ The Great Gatsby, Northern BalletSaturday, 25 May 2013
Ballet is telling stories again. Last night Wayne McGregor’s debut as a narrator followed hot on the heels of Cathy Marston’s Witch-Hunt for Bern Ballett, both in the Royal Opera House complex, and Northern Ballet’s visit to London with David Nixon’... Read more... |
Sasha Waltz, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 21 May 201328-30 September, Sasha Waltz... Read more... |
Russell Maliphant, Rodin Project, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 21 May 201329-31 October, Russell Maliphant Company, The Rodin Project,Sadler's Wells Inspired by the works of the great French sculptor Augus te Rodin, return of award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant’s latestwork which premiered earlier this year.... Read more... |
Ballet Preljocaj, And then 1000 years of peace, Edinburgh Playhou seTuesday, 21 May 2013Ballet Preljocaj, And then, 1000 years of peace, 17-19 Aug,Playhouse France's contemporary dancemaker Angelin Preljocaj performs arecent collaboration he made with the Bolshoi Theatre, now adapted, thataims to "reveal what lies in the darkest... Read more... |
Wah! Wah! Girls, Peacock TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201324 May-23 June, Peacock Theatre: Wah! Wah! Girls, a new music al in which East London meets Bollywood. This first collaboration between S adler’s Wells, Stratford East and Kneehigh is inspired by the song and dan ce of traditional Mujra dancers and... Read more... |
Richard Alston Dance Co, world premiere, CanterburyTuesday, 21 May 2013Richard Alston Dance Company premieres A Ceremony of Carols, d anced to Britten’s masterpiece sung live by the Canterbury Cathedral Choir , at Canterbury’s Marlowe Theatre, 8... Read more... |
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, Lowry SalfordTuesday, 21 May 201329 Jan-27 Feb, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, UK tour The male ballerinas' clever and hilarious parodies of classical ballet are worth seeing not just for the comedy but for the rare ballets they some times exhume - this programme shows... Read more... |
Dance Umbrella, Central St Martin's, LondonTuesday, 21 May 2013Dance Umbrella 2012 runs from 5-14 October, with its epicentreat a single venue - the Platform Theatre at Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design, part of the King’s Cross development. This year it's c urated by the stimulatingly... Read more... |
Michael Clark premieres, Barbican TheatreTuesday, 21 May 2013Michael Clark Company / new work (17-27 Oct, press night 18 Oct) Barbican Artistic Associate Michael Clark Company return to the Bar bican stage with a double bill of new work. The production will continue Cl ark’s history of close collaboration... Read more... |
Deborah Colker, Tatyana, Edinburgh PlayhouseTuesday, 21 May 2013Deborah Colker Dance Company, Tatyana, 11-14 Aug, Playhouse n A contemporary dance version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, set in modern Brazil. Colker is known for overblown staging tricks and noisy physicality.(1hr 35m) Booking: www.eif.co.uk Read more... |
