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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn experiential piece of dance with plenty of room to develop and grow The stage is, for the most part, bare. A white square in the middle and a backdrop of red fabrics and postcards. As the…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThese Violent Delights will be released in UK cinemas from 21st October.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA wonderful show that blends ceilidh dancing with the coming together of Scottish and South Korean cultures.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelgian theatre company ‘Still Life’ offer four stunning vignettes of modern embodiment in their experimental new piece, FLESH.
Reading Time: 2 minutesHarmony, population 375, is the kind of town where everyone knows everyone's business, until a stranger disrupts their usual routines. Matthew Bourne's The Car Man is Grease meets Carmen, in 1950s varsity jackets, cigarette smoke, girls-versus-boys posturing where the toxic masculinity is the engine block. With a stranger blowing into town and a marriage already curdling on the vine, Harmony is one Man Wanted sign away from combustion.