London Children’s Ballet presents Snow White with a cast of 50 dancers aged 9–16 from 13–16 April 2023. The LCB creates a new West End ballet each year performed by young dancers. Outreach work takes ballet into schools, care homes and special needs centres in and around London. Choreographer Gavin McCaig trained at the Dance School… Continue reading LCB Snow White at the Peacock
Month: March 2023
DanceWest Fest in Hammersmith and Kingston
DanceWest Fest, formerly Ignition Dance Festival, returns this spring to the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith (19 & 20 May) and Rose Theatre, Kingston (17 June) with an evening of new commissions. It will feature four new commissions from Lea Anderson, Jamaal Burkma, Gerrard Martin and James Wilton Dance, emerging artist commissions from Emma Skyum Poulsen and Dani Harris Walters and… Continue reading DanceWest Fest in Hammersmith and Kingston
The Rite of Spring
Choreographer Seeta Patel’s mission is clear. She merges contemporary movement with classical Indian Bharatanatyam dance in one almighty clash of the cymbals where East meets West to form an energetic powerhouse of movement fed by a live classical orchestra. Stravinsky’s monumental The Rite of Spring meets Bharatanatyam. It couldn’t get better. The evening opens with… Continue reading The Rite of Spring
Dance of Death
Maeterlinckian symbolism and Munch’s angst find their way into Strindberg’s play, which dissects the everyday hell that is marriage and other people. He wrote Dance of Death in 1900—it feels personal. It is. His existentialist legacy lingers in Huis Clos (1944) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962). And many a film and television drama—provide… Continue reading Dance of Death
Hot House
Hot House is the new work by Richard Chappell Dance, which premièred last night to a full house. The company celebrates its 10-year anniversary and has been the recipient of a Gillian Dickinson Commission, allowing them to not only create Hot House but also to be in residence at Dance City. The evening opened with… Continue reading Hot House
Metamorphosis to tour
Tour dates have been announced for Frantic Assembly’s new adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, a collaboration between poet, playwright and broadcaster Lemn Sissay and Frantic Assembly’s artistic director Scott Graham. The new production will première at Theatre Royal Plymouth from September 12–16, before a UK tour arriving at The Lowry, Salford November 14–18. Metamorphosis is a depiction… Continue reading Metamorphosis to tour
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Almeida Theatre’s 2021 production of Macbeth, available online for a brief spring 2023 season, is a dark and savage reading of the play. It opens with a graphic reminder that there’s a war going on and closes with the hint of one to come, and all the male characters spend the play in remnants… Continue reading The Tragedy of Macbeth
On the And: Honouring the Legacy of Sir Robert Cohan CBE
Wonderful, wonderful, most wonderful, Robert Cohan’s choreographic and artistic legacy lives on, passed from generation to generation. And preserved on film. London Contemporary Dance Theatre and School were both founded by Cohan in the late sixties at the instigation of Martha Graham fan Robin Howard. Cohan (1925–2021) had danced with the Graham Company since 1946/7.… Continue reading On the And: Honouring the Legacy of Sir Robert Cohan CBE
Wearing Colours comes back to Liverpool
John Dillon’s Wearing Colours is to be performed in Liverpool for the first time in 15 years. Set before and in the immediate aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster, the work explores the differing reactions of four individuals who attended the game on that fateful night. It was written by Dillon and performed only five months after… Continue reading Wearing Colours comes back to Liverpool
North Shields Exchange Theatre faces eviction
In a move that echoes the eviction of VAULT Festival from his usual home in London’s Waterloo, North Tyneside Council is evicting The Exchange Theatre charity in order to bring in a private, more commercial tenant. Performing arts trade union Equity has written to the Mayor, Norma Redfearn DBE (Labour), in a bid to prevent the charity… Continue reading North Shields Exchange Theatre faces eviction