Reading Time: 3 minutesThis production manages to successfully blend the technical brilliance of flamenco with the physical comedy of pantomime and the Spanish passion of telenovela drama. Flamenc Oh!! tells the tale of a family whose story feels as much in keeping thematically with any of Federico García Lorca’s masterpieces.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAt the Linbury Theatre, Northern Ballet presents a new work and two revivals so different in tone as to suggest three separate evenings, though the dancers navigate deftly from one to the other.
Reading Time: 2 minutes"When words fail, movement and touch take over" is the premise offered for Blue/Glas, National Dance Company Wales's London double bill.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPresenting a breathtaking double bill, the Welsh contemporary company National Dance Company Wales restages Theo Clinkard’s much loved Ordinary Courage alongside a new work from the Olivier nominated Alesandra Seutin, Untamed. We sat down with Bakani Pick-Up, Artistic Director of NDC…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAlmost seven decades after Alvin Ailey founded his company, Legacy brings together works from across the Ailey repertoire
Reading Time: 2 minutesWorld-renowned dance company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater brings two entirely different mixed-bill programmes to Sadler’s Wells. Legacy includes mostly Alvin Ailey’s own choreography and excerpts from his classic works. New Works, in comparison, features fresh pieces from respected contemporary choreographers. Performed by the company, both curations culminate in Alvin Ailey’s iconic Revelations.
Reading Time: 2 minutes50 years after it’s debut, Ntozake Shange’s seminal play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, finds a home in the UK at the Yard Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA darkly delightful double bill of dance
Reading Time: 2 minutesA table, four Nigerian aunties and one countercultural Black woman disregarding expectations. Presented by Olúwatósin Omotosho at Dancing City festival, The Aunties: House of Masks does not fail to entertain while comically criticising the traditional Nigerian aunties.
Reading Time: 2 minutesBased on Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short feminist text of the same name, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has been adapted by director/choreographer Caitlin Ort into a dance thriller at the Edinburgh Fringe this year.