“The strength of this programme lies in the works that present something fresh and exciting”: Rachel Elderkin reviews Carlos Acosta’s new dance company.
Dance
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.
6 May 2017
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Review: material / rearranged / to / be at Dance International Glasgow
April 21 - April 30
By Andrew Edwards
So much room to breathe: Andrew Edwards spends hours at Siobhan Davies Dance’s multi-faceted installation at Tramway.
3 May 2017
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Review: Mayerling at the Royal Ballet
By Anna Winter
Lust, morphine and mental instability: Kenneth MacMillan’s infamously dark ballet is back, and so are the plummy Covent Garden crowds.
25 April 2017
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Review: VOID at Dance International Glasgow
April 21 - April 22
By Andrew Edwards
Other-worldly, historic and contemporary all at once: Andrew Edwards reviews Dance International Glasgow’s urban re-siting of this JG Ballard inspired solo dance show.
25 April 2017
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Review: Slap and Tickle at Tramway, Glasgow
April 21 - April 22
By Lorna Irvine
A particularly British nightmare: Lorna Irvine is at Dance International Glasgow to review Liz Aggiss’ boundary-breaking, genre-melding solo show.
20 April 2017
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Review: Wellness at Transform 17
April 19 - April 20
By Catherine Love
Shock is their shtick: Catherine Love is at Transform 17 festival to review the UK premiere of Florentina Holzinger and Vincent Riebeek’s Wellness
12 April 2017
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Review: Jewels at the Royal Opera House
Royal Opera House ⋄ April 1 - April 21
By Anna Winter
Cut-glass assertions of privilege: Anna Winter is entranced by the Royal Ballet’s 50th anniversary revival of George Balanchine’s classic triptych.