Dance
Darcey Bussell becomes President - but will she be vocal?Tuesday, 15 May 2012The former Royal Ballet star Darcey Bussell has been elected President of the Royal Academy of Dance, bringing a fresh new face to one of the iconic honorary posts in British ballet. While it's not clear how vocal she will be prepared to be on... Read more... |
Sylvie Guillem awarded Venice's Golden LionSunday, 13 May 2012The dancer Sylvie Guillem has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement by the 8th International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice. The ballerina, the longtime superstar of the Royal Ballet after her rise to glory at Nureyev's... Read more... |
Einstein on the Beach, Barbican TheatreSaturday, 05 May 2012
Einstein on the Beach was meant to be one of the jewels in the crown for the Cultural Olympiad. The celebrated 1970s collaboration between Philip Glass, Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs - which Susan Sontag claimed to be one of the greatest... Read more... |
Win tickets for Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake 3D premiere, plus live Q&ATuesday, 01 May 2012
Matthew Bourne, creator of the famous male swans of his modern reinvention of Swan Lake, is to launch the nationwide screening of a spectacular new 3D film of his creation, along with a live Q&A - and we have free tickets to be won for this... Read more... |
iPads and smartphones go live with hip-hop dancingMonday, 30 April 2012
A new publicly funded UK web channel for performing arts opens tomorrow morning, preparing for a major launch this weekend streaming top international streetdancers to the web audience and publishing John Peel's notes on his record collection. The... Read more... |
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet, Sadler's WellsMonday, 30 April 2012
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire carries with it an enormous loading from its past, the associations with those iconic performers on stage and screen Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh not the least of them. For a narrative dance, that... Read more... |
Ballet industry demands end to "too-thin" dancersTuesday, 24 April 2012Ballerina Tamara Rojo, director-designate of English National Ballet, is making waves even before she takes up her position in September. Next Monday she is a keynote speaker at a day of events at the Royal Society of Medicine launching the first-... Read more... |
Ballet industry demands end to "too-thin" dancersTuesday, 24 April 2012Ballerina Tamara Rojo, director-designate of English National Ballet, is making waves even before she takes up her position in September. Next Monday she is a keynote speaker at a day of events at the Royal Society of Medicine launching the first-... Read more... |
Artifact, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Sadler's WellsFriday, 20 April 2012
William Forsythe's position as the most articulate, fascinating, provocative ballet choreographer of the past 25 years is demonstrated by the Royal Ballet of Flanders' brief visit to Sadler's Wells for three nights with his epic, maddening,... Read more... |
Tamara Rojo, prima ballerina, becomes English National Ballet's directorThursday, 12 April 2012
Royal Ballet prima ballerina Tamara Rojo has been appointed the new artistic director of English National Ballet. Though the announcement was officially dated for tomorrow, the press release was issued by the company this morning and the news has... Read more... |
More festivals added to our guideTuesday, 10 April 2012New additions constantly coming in for our all-singing-all-dancing festivals guides. Check out Dublin and Croatia in the European guide here.theartsdesk European Festivals Guide 2012theartsdesk UK Festivals Guide 2012 Read more... |
European Festivals Guide 2012Monday, 09 April 2012
Once again theartsdesk brings you its unmatched annual guide to Europe's music, film and arts festivals, complementing the UK festivals guide. With musicians and bands hunting out picturesque places to play in summertime, you can find an alternative... Read more... |
