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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The Beauty of Ballet
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 conceived as a celebration of the nineteenth-century heritage.
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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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Dancers by Nature
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 in Europe in 1971 as a seismic force, dismantling the rigid hierarchies of the classical world to forge a new path for modernism. In 1974, she was appointed Étoile Chorégraphe, a title created specifically for her at the Opéra de Paris, where she led the pioneering Groupe de Recherches Théâtrales until 1980. Decades later, she would once again redraw institutional boundaries as the founding director of the Venice Biennale’s first...
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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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Tranquil Intrigue
The title of this dance interpretation of The Tempest highlights a notable departure from canon. In “We Caliban,” Shobana Jeyasingh imagines Shakespeare’s titular native in the collective sense—a tribe, a spirit and a place at once.
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Firebird Rising
Long before the dancers take the stage, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s season at New York City Center feels like one of the most energizing cultural events of the spring.
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It is rare for George Balanchine’s grand, bedazzled “Symphony in C” to open a program. Its champagne-popping finale for 52 dancers tends to be a nightcap.
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Too Good to be True
When we think of countries that have shaped the world of dance our mind will often drift to the United States, Russia, or Germany. But what of Luxembourg?
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Looking Forward
In times of rapid change, predicting the road ahead can seem to be a fool’s errand. But on a spring afternoon at Lincoln Center, I feel confident in this assertion: the future of dance is very bright.
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