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by View author's website on May 2, 2018
Lloyd Webber Foundation offers £630,000 boost for emerging artists
by View author's website on May 2, 2018
Musical theatre composer Lord Lloyd-Webber has said his charity’s latest round of grants seeks to help increase diversity in the performance arts. The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has awarded 22 grants worth a total of £630,000 to Performances arts... Read full article
by Brian Seibert on April 27, 2018
Carlos Acosta on his new Cuban dance company: 'I want to bring them to the world..
by Brian Seibert on April 27, 2018
The career synopsis of the Cuban born dancer Carlos Acosta reads like a fairy tale. As a dark-skinned boy from an especially poor part of Havana, he was forced to audition for the national ballet school by his father, who wanted him off the streets. ... Read full article
by Judith Mackrell on March 26, 2018
Richard Alston Dance Company review – stillness, serenity and funk
by Judith Mackrell on March 26, 2018
Fifty years ago Richard Alston was a fierce, skinny boy with an arty fall of black hair who believed that dances should be choreographed with the same compositional rigour and purity as abstract art or music. ... Read full article
by Zoë Anderson on March 20, 2018
Ballet Black, which celebrates dancers of black and Asian descent, perform a double bill
by Zoë Anderson on March 20, 2018
Ballet Black’s new programme is surely the company’s finest yet. Cathy Marston’s taut new ballet The Suit shows tragedy bursting out of the seams of everyday life, while Arthur Pita’s A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a riotous take.... Read full article
by Judith Mackrell on March 16, 2018
Royal Ballet: Bernstein Centenary review – McGregor and Wheeldon at the top of their game
by Judith Mackrell on March 16, 2018
There’s a kinetic kick and theatrical flair to Leonard Bernstein’s dance scores that have, rightly, made them beloved by choreographers. Yet the composer suspected that every piece he wrote was “theatre music in some way”, and one of the revelations... Read full article
by Judith Mackrell on March 11, 2018
Candoco Dance Company review – compelling document of human possibilities
by Judith Mackrell on March 11, 2018
It’s always great to witness the buzz that choreographers get from working with Candoco. Throughout the company’s 27-year history there’s rarely been a work in which its mix of disabled and non-disabled dancers has felt like a limitation.... Read full article
by Jim Seton on February 22, 2018
Northern Ballet adaptation of Jane Eyre is coming to Leeds
by Jim Seton on February 22, 2018
Jane Eyre will dance into audiences’ hearts in Northern Ballet’s stage adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel. Following one of literature’s most iconic heroines as she fights to find her independence and happiness, Jane Eyre is choreographed... Read full article
by Zoë Anderson on February 16, 2018
The Winter’s Tale, Royal Opera House, London, review: It’s a marvellous ballet
by Zoë Anderson on February 16, 2018
Winter, but also spring: The Royal Ballet’s The Winter’s Talemoves from icy, tormenting jealousy to radiant recognition, lighting up the stage like a shaft of sunlight.Christopher Wheeldon’s 2014 ballet is one of his finest, with complex storytelling... Read full article
by Judith Mackrell on February 9, 2018
Viktor review – Pina Bausch's pleasure-seekers haunt Rome
by Judith Mackrell on February 9, 2018
When Pina Bausch’s work was first shown in London in 1982 it changed the way we thought about dance. Bausch made the stage look like a whole new playground of possibilities, creating some indefinable genre of dance theatre...... Read full article
by Judith Mackrell on January 10, 2018
Song of the Earth/La Sylphide review – Rojo powers a demanding double bill
by Judith Mackrell on January 10, 2018
With its guileless storytelling and Romantic mingling of the folksy and sublime, August Bournonville’s La Sylphide is a tricky ballet for modern companies to inhabit. Tamara Rojo’s decision to challenge English National Ballet’s dancers... Read full article
by Maev Kennedy on December 28, 2017
V&A museum acquires Nijinsky ballet costume designed by Léon Bakst
by Maev Kennedy on December 28, 2017
A silk costume designed by Léon Bakst and worn by Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the greatest ballet dancers, has been acquired by the V&A museum.... Read full article
by David Jays on December 8, 2017
Project Polunin: Satori review – ballet's bad boy makes howling bid for inner peace
by David Jays on December 8, 2017
Sergei Polunin is a dancing star still searching for work that is the right fit for his undeniable charisma. The Ukrainian-born artist brings his messy past with him: companies abandoned, performances cancelled, vivid tattoos and tales of excess... Read full article
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