Sadler's Wells, London Stamina-sapping repetition mars a piece that falls just short of saying something interesting about the human condition Olivier Dubois describes his 2012 work Tragédie as an exploration of the gulf between merely being human and embracing our full humanity. On paper, his ideas come dressed in the philosophy of Nietzsche and the history of Greek tragedy. On stage, however,...
In the Florida company's stripped-back but loving stagings, the great English choreographer's work looks ever fresh and modern It's instructive to see an artist's work away from its usual setting. Four consecutive days of watching ballets by Sir Frederick Ashton staged in Florida by Sarasota Ballet provided a fair overview of the choreographer's output. True, there were no full evening or narrative...
Justin Peck has gone from unknown corps-member to choreographer-of-the-moment in a blink of an eye. (He created his first piece for the company in 2012; this is his sixth.) ...
Runcorn Park Physie girls were invited to perform at the 2014 Buddha Birthday Festival Celebrations at Southbank Parklands in Brisbane City. The festival is one of Queensland’s most prestigious cultural events attracting over 200,000 local and international visitors each year and is now recognised as the largest annual Buddha Birthday celebration in the world! Runcorn […]...
Next Wave festival, Footscray Community Arts Centre, Melbourne Though plagued by technical issues, this powerful piece brings a new voice to dance Carly Sheppard stands under a spotlight. She covers her face with her hands and bends down, drawing patterns on the ground. Its a sad opening, her movements often hesitant, guessing. Moving to the back of the stage, she sits next to Ryl Harris and the pair...
For the first time since 2010, New York audiences had the chance to take in work by Christian Rizzo, at the French Institute Alliance Française and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. ...
Cincinnati Ballet visits the Joyce Theater with three premieres, including “Hummingbird in a Box,” choreographed to a score by Peter Frampton. ...
A selected guide to dance performances in New York City. ...
Kathak-flamenco fusion, dancing on ice and a Scandinavian season are the highlights in new programme One of the headlining events of the Sadler's Wells autumn-winter season was actually announced several months ago but the UK premiere of Torobaka is still worth a second fanfare. Created and performed by two ferociously charismatic soloists, Israel Galván and Akram Khan , this may well be a dance...
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Tweet May 8, 2014 Press Releases Powerhouse of dance perform thrilling triple bill in Leeds Northern Ballet returns home in June with a showcase of established international and emerging choreographic talent, including the World Première of Kenneth Tindall’s The Architect . The Company will perform a Mixed Programme at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in its award-winning headquarters in Leeds...
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Next Wave festival, fourtyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Hex is a powerful work that looks at the Aids crisis from a generation away, and explores its legacy and impact James Welsby was born the same year as the Grim Reaper advertisement played on Australian television warning about the dangers of HIV. For his generation, it was so powerful that the image of the epidemic lingered on, even among those too...
Both as a tribute to Ashton and as a coming-out party, it’s hard to imagine how the festival could have gone better. The ballets are in good hands....
The choreographer will join the Glorya Kaufman School of Dance as a professor in fall 2015. ...
New York City Ballet brings back four Balanchine works that recapture their time and reflect on earlier eras. ...
Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud borrowed sounds from D.J.’s and some moves from the club scene in their work for the Danse French-American festival. ...
For 30 years there were only 2 physie clubs in Melbourne in Doncaster and Whitehorse. But over the last 10 years there has been exciting growth in the Garden State, with clubs opening in Berwick, Keilor, Balwyn, Elsternwick, Glen Eira and Melbourne City – and now Melbourne has their own zone for competitions and a […]...
Photographer Ingrid Bugge spent nearly two years in residence with the Danish Royal Ballet and employed digital techniques to capture movement and animate dance sequences. The result is The Essence of Ballet , a collection that showcases the mesmerising illusion of depth in her images How Ingrid Bugge uses technology to bring her ballet images to life Continue reading... ...
The Danish photographer's interactive ibook The Essence of Ballet showcases the possibilities of the digital future of dance photography Ingrid Bugge's The Essence of Ballet in pictures Back in the 1980s, a new generation of dance photographers began to reinvent their craft, responding to the experimental energies of the choreographers around them with images that aimed to capture the wit of the dance...