Dance
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Daphnis & Chloe/Two Pigeons, London Coli seumWednesday, 15 May 201313-18 March, BRB at London Coliseum with two programmes, + Ro yal Ballet Sinfonia conducted by Koen Kessels or Paul Murphy 13... Read more... |
Bolshoi Ballet, Sleeping Beauty, ROHWednesday, 15 May 2013Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star... Read more... |
Ballet Revolucion, Peacock TheatreWednesday, 15 May 201325 April - 19 May, Peacock Theatre, Ballet Revolución is an e xplosive fusion of ballet, contemporary dance and hip hop from a Cuban com pany of dancers and musicians, performing popular hits from Shakira, Rick y Martin, Beyoncé and Prince, et al,... Read more... |
Farruquito, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201315-27 March: the annual Flamenco Festival features this year a stellar array of artists in Spain's superb song and dance form. 17 March : Farruquito, a star of flamenco puro. 18 March: Estrella Morente, reno wned singer daughter of singer Enrique... Read more... |
Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Rite of Spring, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 201311-13 April: A String of Rites is a series of three events comm issioned by Sadler’s Wells to mark the 100th anniversary of the premiere ofStravinsky’s masterpiece, The Rite of Spring. The first in the series cou ples two works by Fabulous Beast and... Read more... |
An Evening for Hospices of Hope, Sadler's Wells TheatreTuesday, 14 May 2013
Thank you, Romania, for ballerina Alina Cojocaru, pianist Dinu Lipatti, sopranos Angela Gheorghiu and Ileana Cotrubas, sculptor Constantin Brancusi, tennis player Ilie Nastase, playwright Eugène Ionesco, conductor Sergiu Celibidache, actors Edward G... Read more... |
10 Questions for Ballerina Alina CojocaruWednesday, 08 May 2013
For the Royal Ballet's exquisite star Alina Cojocaru her dream is performing some of the most physically demanding movements ever devised for a human being - for a paralysed 52-year-old man in Romania, the dream is to go to the park and look at the... Read more... |
Hofesh Shechter/ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Puz/zle, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 30 April 2013
I was trying to remember the last time a choreographer actually tried to make the audience smile in the past few months. Dance-lovers are suckers for guilt. They creep into the dark of their seat to be regaled by their share of the blame for the... Read more... |
Mayerling, The Royal Ballet/ Le Jeune Homme et La Mort, English National BalletSunday, 21 April 2013
The acting tradition is refined in British ballet to a height not matched anywhere else in the world - distilled in Frederick Ashton’s ballets, expanded in Kenneth MacMillan’s. This repertoire has produced a stream of exceptional dance actors over... Read more... |
Ecstasy and Death, English National Ballet, London ColiseumFriday, 19 April 2013
Is it death that makes us go back to the ballet? The one artform where it is so glorified, so exquisitely reimagined as an experience of regret, hope, ecstasy or bleakest resignation that we will go to drink it in again and again, to preview our own... Read more... |
Romeo and Juliet, National Ballet of Canada, Sadler's WellsThursday, 18 April 2013
The combination of Romeo, Juliet and the choreographer Alexei Ratmansky should be almost too much for the blood pressure. Those defiant lovers, that emotive yet intellectual young Russian craftsman of ballet. Hence the huge turn-out of balletomanes... Read more... |
The Rite of Spring/Petrushka, Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, Sadler's WellsSunday, 14 April 2013
In String of Rites, Sadler’s Wells has commissioned three works as a tribute to Vaslav Nijinsky’s 1913 Le sacre du printemps. It opened with the Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s double bill, The Rite of Spring and Petrushka. Both scores are... Read more... |
