DANCE / LONDON

Ballet Black

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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.

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CANADA / DANCE

National Ballet of Canada: Frontiers

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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.

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DANCE / THEATRE

The London International Festival of Theatre 2024

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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.

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DANCE / THEATRE

Jungle Book Reimagined

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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.

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ART

Where Dance Meets Painting…

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“As I have been a dancer of ballet, contemporary dance, jazz since the age of 5, these disciplines have been part of my life and my vision. Everything I see and look at in the world, as an observer, is through the eyes of dance and movement.”

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DANCE

Feet of fire

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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.

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INDIA / VIDEO

How crazy is that! Filming #theworldscraziestdancevideo

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For those few minutes of filming they felt like they were in the spotlight, that they really mattered, that the world out there – about which many have only a very sketchy understanding – was looking at them.

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DANCE

Dance: twenty questions to José Navas

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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.

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