For audiences as much as artists: the UK’s largest dance festival for emerging choreographers offers up an eclectic triple-bill.
Dance
21 November 2017
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Review: Staging Ages at Trinity Laban
November 15th
By Rohanne Udall
Growing pains: H2Dance’s 2015 show meditates on ageing, memory, and the generation gap.
9 November 2017
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Review: The North at The Place
November 8
By Rachel Elderkin
Winter is coming: Joan Clevillé Dance’s second full-length show heads north on a journey of discovery.
27 October 2017
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Review: Rumpelstiltskin at Northern Stage, Newcastle
October 24 - October 28
By Matt Miller
“A dark and beautiful fable that operates as an uncomfortable social mirror just as much as a bedtime story”: Matthew Miller reviews balletLORENT’s Rumpelstiltskin in Newcastle.
18 October 2017
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Review: Izindava at Sadler’s Wells
October 12 - October 13
By Rachel Elderkin
“Led by feeling and emotion”: Rachel Elderkin admires Bawren Tavaziva’s richly expressive and highly personal new show at Sadler’s Wells.
3 October 2017
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Review: On The Habit of Being Oneself at Sadler’s Wells
September 28 - September 29
By Paul Hughes
“Does the work think we care? Does it care if we care?”: choreographer Joe Moran’s evening of minimalist dance performances and installations.
2 October 2017
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Review: Acosta Danza: Debut at Sadler’s Wells
September 27 - September 30
By Rachel Elderkin
“The strength of this programme lies in the works that present something fresh and exciting”: Rachel Elderkin reviews Carlos Acosta’s new dance company.
18 July 2017
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Review: ETM: Double Down at Sadler’s Wells
July 12 - July 15
By Anna Winter
“The tech doesn’t detract from the tap”: Anna Winter reviews the “strange and subtle” joy that is Dorrance Dance’s technologically and technically innovative ETM: Double Down.
1 June 2017
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Review: Queen Size at Alchemy Festival
May 19
By Bridget Minamore
Full of complexity and nuance: Bridget Minamore is moved by Mandeep Raiky’s two-person dance piece exploring the criminalisation of homosexuality in India.
25 May 2017
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Review: merry.go.round at Dublin Dance Festival
May 23 - May 24
By Chris McCormack
The universe will deliver: Chris McCormack is mesmerised by Maria Nilsson Waller’s “absorbing” new work at Dublin Dance Festival.
16 May 2017
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Review: Hidden Architectures at Dance International Glasgow
May 9 - May 10
By Andrew Edwards
Things untangle, things change: Andrew Edwards is mesmerised by Saffy Setohy’s “hugely generous” new performance installation at Dance International Glasgow.
12 May 2017
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Review: Pinocchio at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh
May 2
By Lorna Irvine
A highly original, thoroughly rollicking ninety minutes: Lorna Irvine enjoys Jasmin Vardimon’s multi-faceted dance adaptation of this classic children’s story.
11 May 2017
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Review: Casanova at Sadler’s Wells
May 9 - May 13
By Anna Winter
A superbly danced and successful piece of storytelling: Anna Winter examines Northern Ballet’s new show about the 18th-century Italian philanderer and his remarkable, reprehensible life.
9 May 2017
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Review: Velvet Petal at Dance International Glasgow
May 6 - May 7
By Andrew Edwards
Beautiful images of growth, change and rebirth: Andrew Edwards is mesmerised but left cold by Fleur Darkin’s eclectic Scottish Dance Theatre show at Tramway.
6 May 2017
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Review: SPOTTED at Dance International Glasgow
May 3 - May 4
By Andrew Edwards
And we wait: Andrew Edwards is both excruciatingly bored and enormously impressed by Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir’s inertia-ridden show.