Review: YOU & US with Cathy Waller Company – human, nuanced, heart-warming
Lucía Piquero appreciates the humanity in Cathy Waller Company’s YOU & US, inviting us to have the courage to be seen more openly and more honestly.
Author: Lucía Piquero
Lucía Piquero Álvarez was born in Asturias, Spain, where she trained in Classical Ballet and read for a BSc in Psychology. She moved to London where she trained in contemporary dance (LCDS), also getting an MA in Choreography (Middlesex University). Lucía has been an independent dancer and choreographer since 2007, her choreographies have been presented internationally and she has been commissioned by choreographic centres, national companies and festivals.
She was lecturer and head of the Dance Studies Department at the University of Malta, and Senior Lecturer at Dance City (Newcastle), and is currently lecturing at Trinity Laban and English National Ballet School. She completed her PhD at the University of Roehampton. Her main research interest is on embodied emotion and cognition in dance, she has presented in conferences and directed workshops and practice research projects internationally, and published articles and chapters in diverse platforms as well as her own monograph.
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Review: Ballet Black’s 25th Anniversary – a timely, powerful, inspiring, honest show of dance
Lucía Piquero sees Ballet Black celebrating its 25th anniversary – these dancers are powerful people, powerful presences, honest and human… We cannot ask for more in the world of dance.
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Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Sweet Mambo… Oh, dear Pina, I fear we are lost
Lucía Piquero sees Tanztheater Wuppertal in Pina Bausch’s Sweet Mambo, showing the best and worst of us… and we love it.
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Review: Royal Ballet’s Woolf Works – Seamless Sensations of Embodied Memory
Lucía Piquero sees the Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works – a work resonating with the need to question what and how dance does.
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Review: Ballet Black’s Shadows – More of this please!
Lucía Piquero sees Ballet Black’s double bill Shadows, by female choreographers Cassa Pancho and US-based choreographer Chanel DaSilvas.
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Review: English National Ballet’s R:Evolution – a beautiful dance down memory lane
Lucía Piquero sees English National Ballet’s mixed bill with a “company full of energy and vision, galvanised through dancers you cannot stop looking at”.
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Review: Ballet BC double bill – Frontier and PASSING… we’re a universe in ourselves
Lucía Piquero sees Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Johan Inger’s work PASSING with Canada’s Ballet BC, on tour – dance that gives a sense of life.
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Review: Lost Dog’s “Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)” – dance and a god I could believe in
Lucía Piquero appreciates Lost Dog’s dry humour in its production of Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) with Sharif Afifi.
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Review: Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage – Serenity, poignancy, and a little bit of idealism
Lucía Piquero Álvarez sees Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage (Flight Pattern, Covenant, Passage) – a masterpiece from the master of movement.
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Review: Oedipus at the Old Vic – striking trees, but not quite a forest
Lucía Piquero sees Oedipus at the Old Vic with Rami Malek, Indira Varma and Hofesh Shechter’s choreography, but finds a disjointed feeling to the whole production.
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Review: Lost Dog’s ‘Ruination’ – the physicalising of raw humanity
Lucía Piquero Álvarez sees Lost Dog in Ruination at the Royal Opera House – makes you laugh and cry and feel a sense of hope too.
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Review: Wayne McGregor’s Maddaddam – a beautiful, missed opportunity
Lucía Piquero Álvarez sees the Royal Ballet in McGregor’s Maddaddam – “it fails to achieve the emotionally charged embodied power of some of his other work”.
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