The sputtering stop-start of lockdown measures in the U.K. has wiped most of the 2020 dance season from the calendar,...
BalletBoyz’ twenty year anniversary is celebrated with elan with this superb double bill which showcases two world class choreographers, and...
Details and the slightest intricacies are key to this showcase of BalletBoyz’ incredible work, displaying their versatility. A hand placed just so, a smile that is hard to read, bodies entwined, in conflict and pushed apart. With an audacious, challenging remit of creating brand new works for the company in just a fortnight, four choreographers bring pieces of delicacy and precision in collaboration with four composers. Balance and power structures is the theme threading through the evening, topped off by a critically acclaimed half hour long piece from 2013 by Russell Maliphant, called “Fallen” (the most balletic in the purest sense) full of bombast, acrobatic language and circularity.
“Maybe this time, it won’t end that way . . .” A wishful sentiment shared, perhaps, by the audience as...
The small group of dancers that comprise BalletBoyz, in decidedly flammable-looking and garish shellsuits (scourge of fashionistas everywhere in late...
What is life if not one long memento mori? This is the question Trevor Nunn and William Trevitt—co-founders of the...
