Location, Location, Location
It was perhaps on Instagram some five or six years ago when I first came across the dance films of Benjamin Seroussi.
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Notes from the Underground
Beneath my feet, thousands upon thousands of tiny threads in the soil transmit messages and nutrients, actions and behaviours.
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Winners and Some Questions
The Prix de Lausanne 2026 crowned fourteen young dancers in its finale held at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, selected from 78 candidates who took part in the competition’s selection rounds. The jury this year was presided over by Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of the Royal Ballet.
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Lights go up on three dancers who sit side by side on the floor in a far corner of the stage, legs outstretched, soles of their bare feet delightfully exposed. Siblings posing for a photo in the backyard? It’s a brief look, like a flashback.
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Together Apart
Mesmerizing to watch? Or commentary on life versus machine? The program performed by Lyon Opera Ballet at New York’s City Center is both. Merce Cunningham’s “Biped” (1999) features a double cast—one of human dancers, and another of computer generated figures.
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A Dance for All
Company Grande, a new dance theater project from the Saitama Arts Foundation triumphed in their recent production, “The Rite of Spring.”
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Notes from the Underground
Beneath my feet, thousands upon thousands of tiny threads in the soil transmit messages and nutrients, actions and behaviours.
Continue Reading
Winners and Some Questions
The Prix de Lausanne 2026 crowned fourteen young dancers in its finale held at the Théâtre de Beaulieu in Lausanne, selected from 78 candidates who took part in the competition’s selection rounds. The jury this year was presided over by Kevin O’Hare, artistic director of the Royal Ballet.
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What We Hold
Lights go up on three dancers who sit side by side on the floor in a far corner of the stage, legs outstretched, soles of their bare feet delightfully exposed. Siblings posing for a photo in the backyard? It’s a brief look, like a flashback.
Continue ReadingTogether Apart
Mesmerizing to watch? Or commentary on life versus machine? The program performed by Lyon Opera Ballet at New York’s City Center is both. Merce Cunningham’s “Biped” (1999) features a double...
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A Dance for All
Company Grande, a new dance theater project from the Saitama Arts Foundation triumphed in their recent production, “The Rite of Spring.”
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New Kids on the Block
In the second week of February, an ensemble of young and remarkably accomplished dancers presented a lovely and generously conceived programme just beyond the Paris city limits, at the Théâtre des Sablons in Neuilly-sur-Seine, as part of a tour spanning not only several French cities but also Spain, Germany, Switzerland and Malaysia. The evening unfolded as a carefully balanced succession of styles, allowing the dancers to reveal both technical assurance and interpretative maturity. Overall, the cohesion of the ensemble and the clarity of their stage presence matched those of an established professional company. Yet this was not, strictly speaking, the...
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Hervé Koubi: Dance and Defiance
With their inimitable blend of contemporary movement and the no-holds barred athleticism of hip-hop and the meticulousness of martial arts, Compagnie Hervé Koubi creates a visual language unlike any other.
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Tempests of Love
Oh to love and be loved, what a beautiful mess it is. Nobody captures the contradictions of passion quite like Pina Bausch, whose “Sweet Mambo” is cast in her signature silly-meets-sincere mould—another treat for us Bausch bods out here, less fetching perhaps if you’re not a fan of her highly mannered house style.
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Continuing a project launched in 2019, lyrical singer Ekaterina Anapolskaya and former Opéra de Paris sujet, now professor at the ballet school, Gilles Isoart curated an evening of international guests...
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Tanztheater All-Stars
London loves Pina Bausch. The Tanztheater legend is an annual fixture at Sadler’s Wells, and her work still manages to be one of the hottest tickets in town.
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Opposite Week
I caught the New York City Ballet’s two Winter Season premieres last week, and it seems that opposites are still attracting over at the Koch Theater.
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Tears of a Clown
Created in the early sixties, Glen Tetley’s “Pierrot Lunaire” is a rarely revived little dance oddity.
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Steps in Time
The National Ballet of Japan’s annual triple bill of dance, “Ballet Coffret” binged on three neoclassical favorites this year: David Dawson’s “A Million Kisses to my Skin” (2000) Hans van Manen’s “5 Tango’s” (1977) and George Balanchine’s “Themes and Variations” (1947).
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Carolyn Carlson stands as one of the defining figures of contemporary dance. An American visionary shaped by the radical kinetic thinking of Alwin Nikolais in 1960s New York, she arrived...
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Tend the Garden
The modern classic “Le Parc” by Angelin Preljocaj is a masterpiece that never ceases to interrogate the dialectic of nature and culture, confronting human behaviour as shaped by societal norms or driven by raw emotion.
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Forty Years and No Slowing Down
From its first steps in 1986 as Dundee Rep Dance Company with at the helm, to the present day, Scottish Dance Theatre has sealed it's reputation as a forward-thinking company who pushes the limits of what dance can do.
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Recital Revival
Few established artists hold recitals anymore. The word “recital” feels both elementary and antiquated, evoking either children parading across an auditorium stage or a nineteenth-century drawing room where the gentry whisper secrets around a pianoforte.
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Crash Out Queens
It’s not often that one gets to hear a soprano recital in an up-close-and-personal setting. And it’s even rarer that said soprano has a pair of dancers moving about the stage as part of the performance.
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The first moments of Risa show the petite Risa Steinberg seated at a sleek desktop in her New York apartment.
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