Dance
BRB Hobson's Choice, Birmingham HippodromeWednesday, 15 May 201322-25 Feb, Hobson's Choice, Birmingham Hippodrome. Bintley's excellent 1989 ballet version of the tale of true love between a weedy boot maker and the spinster daughter of a drunken businessman. Music by Paul Rea de, who also composed Far From the... Read more... |
Royal Ballet cinema showing: Ashton programmeWednesday, 15 May 2013Cinema relay of the farewell performance together of ballerina Tamara Rojo and young prodigal Sergei Polunin in Marguerite and Armand film ed last March, also containing the cool moonbeam minimalism of Monotones,and retiring ballerina Leanne... Read more... |
Northern Ballet, The Great Gatsby, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201314-18 May: Northern Ballet returns to Sadler's Wells with The G reat Gatsby, a brand new full-length ballet for 2013, following their Cle opatra in 2011. On New York’s Long Island in the indulgent days of the 192 0s, young Midwesterner Nick Carraway... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, La Valse/ Monotones/ Marguerite & Armand, Royal Ope ra HouseWednesday, 15 May 201312-23 Feb, Ashton night: La Valse/ Thaïs/ Voices of Spring/ Mo notones I... Read more... |
La Bayadere, Royal BalletWednesday, 15 May 20135 April-22 May: 12 performances of the gorgeous Indian-set roma nce, with a love triangle in a jungle setting, death by snake-bite, and the most haunting scene in all 19th-century classical ballet: the Shades. N atalia Makarova's production... Read more... |
New Adventures, Matthew Bourne early works, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201321-26 May: Matthew Bourne’s "Early Adventures", consisting of Spitfire, Town and Country and The Infernal Galop - pieces that made his r eputation for English wit - revived by his company New Adventures. PN22. Booking: www.sadlerswells.com Rest... Read more... |
Mark Morris Dance Company, Programme B, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201327 Nov-1 Dec: The master of American contemporary dance, Mark Morris, brings seven works never before seen in the UK, divided into two programmes. 27, 29 Nov, 1 Dec: Programme A includes The Muir, an evol ution of the graceful yet powerful Cease... Read more... |
ROH2 new works, Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera HouseWednesday, 15 May 201329, 30, 31 March 7.30pm in the Linbury Studio Theatre £16.50 , £13.50, £11.50, £7 standing, £8.50 students /Box Office 020 7304 4000 Laïla Diallo, Freddie Opoku-Addaie and Sarah Dowling mark the completio n of their two years as ROH2 Choreographic... Read more... |
Richard Alston Dance Company, Cunningham dances, Barbican Art Gal leryWednesday, 15 May 2013Richard Alston Dance Company + Q... Read more... |
Rafael Amargo, Flamenco Festival, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 20137-19 February: The annual Flamenco Festival London will featureartists including Latin Grammy Award-winning Vicente Amigo, gypsy flamenc o dancer Manuela Carrasco, and the great Rafael Amargo and includes commem oration of Federico Garcia Lorca's... Read more... |
Akram Khan, iTMOi, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201328 May-1 June: Following outstanding success with his latest so lo, DESH, award-winning dancer/choreographer Akram Khan returns to Sadler 's Wells with the London premiere of his much-anticipated new work, iTMOi , the second part of the A String of... Read more... |
Vaslav Nijinsky Gala, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 2013Russian Ballet Icons Gala 2013: Vaslav Nijinsky On Sunday 10March the Russian Ballet Icons Gala, this year dedicated to the legendaryVaslav Nijinsky, will take place at the London Coliseum. The gala will in clude performances from the best living... Read more... |
