Dutch National Ballet & ISH Dance Collective’s GRIMM ballet, choreographed by Ernst Meisner and Marco Gerris, displays a potpourri of dance styles in a fairy tale mash-up, much like Rob Marshall’s Into the Woods film. Members of the Het Nationale Ballet Junior Company perform alongside ISH Dance Collective professionals in a dynamic show that features beloved characters […]
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Choreographed by Kate Prince, ‘Message in a Bottle’ follows refugees as they flee home and adjust to life in a new country – all to music composed by Sting.
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Boy Blue came to perform at Croydon’s Fairfield Halls as part of the 2019 London Dance Umbrella festival.
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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater pairs’ ‘Lazarus’ (by Rennie Harris) with Ailey’s magnum opus, ‘Revelations’, in a celebration of black culture.
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Although time travel isn’t possible, ZooNation’s Tales of the Turntable takes viewers on a historical musical journey through the decades. A boy and his grandfather trace the progression of hip-hop from its early origins through funk, soul and disco to house and rap. Funnily, the dance theatre piece was inspired in part by Back to the Future and Bill and […]
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England’s National Youth Dance Company (NYDC), formed of 38 dancers, closed its tour of Botis Seva’s MADHEAD at Sadler’s Wells in London on 19 July. The work premiered at DanceEast in Ipswich in spring, followed by showings in Plymouth, Newcastle, Essex, Brighton and Birmingham. It’s a shame that they only performed in London one evening, but their […]
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