London City Ballet Presents Works by Glen Tetley and John Neumeier Firebird – A Double Bill is London City Ballet’s latest programme in what has been a whirlwind three years of life for this revived company, the brand new iteration of the touring troupe which thrived in the 1980s and early 90s, earning the patronage […]
Tellus, Dickson Mbi Company
Dickson Mbi’s Rousing New Dance Work at Sadler’s Wells East Tellus is that rare thing: a stage production whose sophistication doesn’t detract from, but rather enhances, its raw, visceral impact. The work of award-winning dancer, choreographer and composer Dickson Mbi, it’s just opened at Sadler’s Wells East, presented by his Dickson Mbi Company. Now, Dickson […]
The Raw Talent Summit
Tracing a Pathway to a Successful Ballet Career The pathway to success as a ballet dancer is not as simple as it might appear. It’s not just a matter of working hard in a good vocational school and acing the audition for your preferred company. It’s all that, of course, but along the way one […]
Mayara Magri – Becoming Manon
The Royal Ballet Brazilian Principal Talks to London Unattached Mayara Magri is no stranger to Manon, Kenneth MacMillan’s hard-hitting ballet that portrays love, greed, corruption and perdition in 18th-century Paris, and has been a much-loved staple of The Royal Ballet repertoire for over half a century. Since joining the company 14 years ago and steadily […]
Luxmuralis: Lost Worlds preview – Old Royal Naval College Greeenwich
Luxmuralis: Lost Worlds is an immersive sound and light show transforming the Old Naval College, Greenwich into a world of lost civilisations and ancient myths.
CADEL: Lungs on Legs – Riverside Studios
Highly evocative one man show portraying the highs and lows of Australian cyclist Cadel Evans’s bid to become the first Australian Tour de France winner
4.48 Psychosis, Royal Opera House
4.48 Psychosis – A Difficult but Deeply Rewarding Watch Philip Venables’s operatic adaptation of Sarah Kane’s final play 4.48 Psychosis comes to the Royal Opera’s Linbury Theatre for the first time. The topic of severe mental illness is tackled with great talent but, more importantly, immense tenderness. The heavy material is handled as precious cargo. […]
Dog Mom – Southwark Playhouse
Well-meaning canine comedy goes astray Dog Mom, which comes to London after running in the U.S. plugs into the contemporary trend for dog ‘humanisation’, emotional rescue and where ‘fur babies’ become an alternative to the human version. So no surprise in seeing human actors playing dogs in this comedy from writer Tate Hanyok. Sarita (Vinita […]
Some Woman – Dorfman National Theatre
Some play – Anne-Marie Duff triumphs as a woman of resistance Some Woman starts with Julie (Anne- Marie Duff) coming into a normal suburban kitchen. She leans against the table clearly in some pain, emotional pain but her reflex is still to clear away the morning’s dishes. Something has happened – an incident at the […]
Stories, The Tap Dance Sensation
A Young Actor’s Tale Told Through Vigorous Dance Stories, self-described as “The Tap Dance Sensation”, is a short, high-octane show of non-stop dancing, with a perfunctory, barely understandable plot, that doesn’t much matter because the dancers are so good and the production’s visual element so strong, mostly due to Alex Hardellet’s lighting design, that it […]