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Category: Dance

‘Twelve Verses to Make You Rot’: Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle at the BALTIC, Gateshead

21st April 202016th May 2020  Gwen Dupré

Gwen Dupré responds to Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle, a durational sonic performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, TheatreTagged: alchemy, Black Sabbath, Hevi Metle, Juliana Capes, Leah Landau, Night / Shift, The Baltic, The Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Ultimate Dancer, witchcraft

Non-binary / Natasha Sturgis / HINGED Dance Co at The Place

4th March 20204th March 2020  Izzy Inkpen

The Place’s innovative dance festival, Resolution 2020, offers three works which explore the construction and performativity of gender, as well as the mental health issues facing young people today.

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Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Alex Murray, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Christine de Pizan, Dance, Es Morgan, Feminism, Gender, Hinged Dance Co., Intersectionality, Judith Butler, Lea Anderson, Margaret Cavendish, Natasha Sturgis, The Place

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard at Sadler’s Wells

27th February 202027th February 2020  Eirini Diamantouli

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch revive one of the late choreographer’s original and most startling works. In Bluebeard, relationships between men and women are laid bare in all their ugliness and beauty.

Read More “Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch’s Bluebeard at Sadler’s Wells”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Bela Bartok, Bluebeard, Pina Bausch, Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Rite of Spring

Russell Maliphant’s maliphantworks3 at the Coronet Theatre

17th February 202017th February 2020  Eirini Diamantouli

Russell Maliphant returns to the delightfully eccentric Coronet Theatre for the third time with maliphantworks3, a terrific triple bill of dance and film.

Read More “Russell Maliphant’s maliphantworks3 at the Coronet Theatre”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Dana Fouras, Donizetti, Panagiotis Tomaras, Rachmaninov, Russell Maliphant, Russell Maliphant Dance Company

Remainder by Company Concentric at The Place

12th February 202012th February 2020  Eirini Diamantouli

Company Concentric return to Resolution 2020 with their captivating new work, Remainder, which looks at the ties between people across geographic and cultural borders.

Read More “Remainder by Company Concentric at The Place”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Company Concentric, Mikaela Livadiotis, Resolution 2020, Resolution Festival, Shivaangee Agrawal, The Place, Yanaëlle Thiran

Eurydice Among the Shades

29th December 201929th January 2020  Miriam Al Jamil

Throughout history Eurydice has been portrayed as a voiceless cypher next to the vocal brilliance of her husband Orpheus. But does the ENO’s 2019 programme of Gluck, Offenbach and Glass alter this? asks our writer Miriam Al Jamil.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, MusicTagged: Albrecht Dürer, Carol Ann Duffy, Decadence, English National Opera, Eurydice, Gluck, H. D., Hilda Doolittle, Jean Cocteau, Night / Shift, Offenbach, Orpheus, Ovid, Paris, Philip Glass, Studio Wayne McGregor, Virgil, Wayne McGregor

Joseph Toonga’s Born to Manifest at The Place

5th December 201911th December 2019  Shirley Ahura

Drawing from real life accounts of young Black men living in Britain today, Joseph Toonga’s Born to Manifest explores issues of identity and Black masculinity, but for our writer Shirley Ahura this is only the beginning of a very important conversation.

Read More “Joseph Toonga’s Born to Manifest at The Place”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Angela Davis, Born to Manifest, Joseph Toonga, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Saidiya Hartmann, Ta Nahesi Coates, The Place, Theophilus 'Godson' Oloyade

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Staging Schiele at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

8th November 20199th November 2019  Miriam Al Jamil

In Staging Schiele, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance brilliantly captures the work and life of Austrian artist Egon Schiele, and reframes the stories of his female models.

Read More “Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s Staging Schiele at the Queen Elizabeth Hall”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Contemporary dance, Dane Hurst, Egon Schiele, Erwin Osen, Fin de Siecle Vienna, Foteini Christofilopoulou, Moa Mandu, Nathan J. Timpano, Orlando Gough, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Southbank Centre, Staging Schiele, Vienna

Serendipity’s BHM Live at the Curve Leicester: powerful stories not just for Black History Month, but every month thereafter

7th November 201919th November 2019  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Serendipity’s BHM Live showcases work by some of the best choreographers from the dance world to date. But these breathtaking performances should be seen every day, all year round, not just during Black History Month, writes Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou.

Read More “Serendipity’s BHM Live at the Curve Leicester: powerful stories not just for Black History Month, but every month thereafter”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Akeim Toussaint Buck, Black History Month, Black History Month Live, Blacklist, Curve Leicester, Isaac Ouro-Gnao, Jaha Browne, Joshua Nash, Serendipity, The Oreo Complex

ZooNation’s Some Like It Hip Hop at the Peacock Theatre

3rd November 20193rd November 2019  Caity Mayall

Eight years after its debut, Some Like It Hip Hop returns to the stage, finally securing hip hop a deserving home in West End theatre.

Read More “ZooNation’s Some Like It Hip Hop at the Peacock Theatre”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Crazy Legs, Don Campbell, Hamilton, Hip Hop, Hip Hop Dance Theatre, Johan Persson, Kate Prince, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Peacock Theatre, Popin Pete, Shakespeare, Some Like It Hip Hop, Some Like it Hot, The Lockers, Tommy Franzen, Toni Basil, Twelfth Night, ZooNation, ZooNation Dance Company

Russell Maliphant Dance Company’s Silent Lines at Sadler’s Wells

21st October 201925th April 2020  Eirini Diamantouli

Russell Maliphant’s latest work, Silent Lines, is an immersive and profoundly powerful exploration of internal and external realities, mind and body, writes Eirini Diamantouli.

Read More “Russell Maliphant Dance Company’s Silent Lines at Sadler’s Wells”
Posted in Arts, DanceTagged: Alethia Antonia, ballet, body work, break-dance, capoeira, Chopin, Contemporary dance, Dana Fouras, Edd Arnold, Grace Jabbari, Moronfoluwa Odimayo, Panagiotis Tomaras, Russell Maliphant, Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Sadler's Wells, Silent Lines, Will Thompson

Interview with internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant – ‘I’m interested in creating abstract work that deals with our internal world and body’

13th October 201915th October 2019  Eirini Diamantouli

Award-winning choreographer Russell Maliphant talks to Eirini Diamantouli about his creative process, collaborating with renowned composer Vangelis and his latest work, Silent Lines, soon to be performed at Sadler’s Wells.

Read More “Interview with internationally acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant – ‘I’m interested in creating abstract work that deals with our internal world and body’”
Posted in Arts, Dance, InterviewsTagged: Alexander McQueen, DV8 Physical Theatre, Epidavrus, Jonathan Messum, lloyd Newson, Lucie Booth, Michael Clark, Michael Hulls, Robert Lepage, Russell Maliphant, Russell Maliphant Dance Company, Sadler's Wells, Silent Lines, Sir Kenneth MacMillan, The Thread, Vangelis

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