Category: DANCE
Ballet Black
This fall Ballet Black returned to London’s Linbury Theatre with a delightful programme of two new pieces. “If at First” and “The Waiting Game”, taken together they highlight the company’s strengths as one of the most innovative dance companies working in Europe.
National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers
Founded by British ballerina Celia Franca the National Ballet of Canada’s tour to the UK is a welcome reminder of just how good the company is.
The London International Festival of Theatre 2024
The London International Festival of Theatre is a bi-annual UK based festival, which invites companies from around the world to the capital to present international work.
Jungle Book Reimagined
Akram Khan’s magical dance-theatre retelling of Kipling’s classic tale is a moving piece which weaves in modern themes of climate change and migration to a traditional favourite revisited.
Feet of fire
How do you reinvent an art form so rooted in tradition? The answer appears to be, by merging both the traditional alongside the innovative and then having it performed by some of the best flamenco dancers in the world.
FLAMENCO FESTIVAL
Spain is very much a country of cultural contradictions, firmly steeped in the importance of tradition but with a passion for innovation that often brings startling, original work to international stages.
Dance: twenty questions to José Navas
Founding artistic director of Compagnie Flak, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary in 2015, José Navas orients his choreographic research in three directions: he performs his solo creations with intensity, he creates enchanting abstract group pieces, and he makes commissions for contemporary ballet that marry classicism to sensitivity.