Graham Spicer talked with choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot – León and Lightfoot – after the opening night of their new double bill for The Royal Ballet.
Graham Spicer sees La Scala’s thrilling contemporary programme: Wayne McGregor’s Chroma, Jean-Christophe Maillot’s Dov’è la luna and Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16.
Voices of British Ballet, the oral history project that began in 2002, will now be available online with podcasts from its vast library of interviews.
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Gabriela Carrizo/Jiri Kylian/ Crystal Pite and Simon McBurne is the ungainly title of the NDT triple bill: “incoherent as a bad dream”.
1910 saw George V ascend to the throne, the trial and execution of Dr Crippen, the publication of E M Forster’s Howard’s End and the birth of Alice Marks, later Alicia Markova, the country’s first prima ballerina. 1910 was also the year that Phillip J S Richardson founded Dancing Times – it was the first independent magazine devoted solely to dance
10 years after their last visit to the UK in 2005, the China National Peking Opera Company returns to the UK at both the Liverpool Echo Arena Auditorium (13 – 15 November) and London’s Sadler’s Wells (19 – 22 November). China National Peking Opera Company will be performing two masterpieces for UK audiences: Warrior Women…
French choreographer Olivier Dubois’ dance work Tragédie has been creating quite a stir. All major papers attended, and there was quite a lot of commotion from publications not usually known for their interest in contemporary dance. Well it was because the dancers were, as my Grandmother would have said, in the nuddy. Always grabs the…
In one of the worst reviews of the season, the Financial Times‘ Clement Crisp finds almost nothing to like in Carlos Acosta‘s Premieres Plus at the London Coliseum: I remember visiting East Berlin when that city was still divided, and being intrigued by shops whose windows were filled with boxes which proclaimed delicacies of many kinds….
Judith Mackrell in The Guardian finds much to praise in 21-year-old Sergei Polunin‘s Albrecht: Physically, Polunin could not be more ideal for the role. With his wide poet’s forehead, slender build and black velvet gaze he’s not only the most handsome man Giselle has ever seen, he’s a pin-up boy for the whole idea of…
The Royal Ballet School is to host a Conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of the death of the Founder of The Royal Ballet School and Companies, Dame Ninette de Valois OM, CH, DBE (1898 – 2001). This significant and wide-reaching event will be held over the first weekend of April, 2011; opening at the…
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