Category: LONDON
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.
Women who Blow on Knots
In Women who Blow on Knots you are immediately drawn into women’s lives. The characters include Amira, a Tunisian dancer and blogger who turns the tables on a person she feels belittled by, Maryam, a melancholy Egyptian academic obsessed with Dido, Queen of Carthage, who was present at the protests in Tahir Square, and standing in for Temelkuran herself, a young female Turkish journalist living in exile.
The Barbie Exhibition
Barbie is actually much more diverse than simply the perfect American blond, with a tiny waist, endless legs tipped with high-heels and a swinging pony-tail.
YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND
YOKO ONO: MUSIC OF THE MIND is an enormous retrospective of a towering artist who finally appears to be escaping the long shadow cast by her famous husband John Lennon. This show highlights the fact that Yoko Ono should be seen, now as one the greatest contemporary artist. Someone who has influenced a generation.
Ain’t I a Woman? – Review
With our world currently at such a disturbing junction, “Ain’t I a Woman” highlights the fact that if we wish to live in healthy societies, it’s crucial that we hear everyone’s voice.
Chineke at the Southbank
This June Chineke has showcased an eclectic programme which featured compositions by Nigerian composer Fela Sowande, British Nigerian composer Cassie Kinoshi along with German composer Max Richter’s new re-composition of The Four Seasons, by Vivaldi.
AIN’T I A WOMAN?
These short plays range from one which looks at an imagined process which can changed the ethnicity of a young black woman exhausted by the racism she daily faces, another looks at a world decimated by a virus, where a young black woman, a leader of a resistance, is faced with an impossible choice to make.
Scala!!! A Film Tribute to a Legendary Cinema
In the middle of a very dangerous district of London, the Scala somehow managed to carve out a reputation for being a home away from home for a whole generation of artists.