Sunday, April 26, 2015
Javier de Frutos is having a salad for lunch. For some reason this takes me by surprise. I expected him to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThursday, February 19, 2015
Peacock Theatre, London: Cirque du Soleil's hipper, sexier cousin Cirque Eloize is a boundary-pushing group with theatre in its soul. The combination of narrative, dance and circus skil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMFriday, February 13, 2015
The Point, Eastleigh: The sputtering soundtrack suggests the era of the 1930s; the planks and girders and wind indicate the top of a skyscraper under construction. But it is the programme li…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMMonday, February 9, 2015
Sadler's Wells, London: A showcase for work in progress by independent choreographers attached to Sadler's Wells, this is the first programme of its kind. The choices might have proved …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMMonday, January 26, 2015
Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, London: More than cabaret, less than circus, Oktobre is a potpourri of acts anchored by a concept that has the slippery logic of a dream. Designed and dressed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMFriday, January 23, 2015
Jacksons Lane, London: A blend of physical theatre, mime, dance, music and illusion, Theatre Re's latest work is a heady concoction - it looks like a Samuel Beckett play designed by Mag…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Sadler's Wells, London: Yet another depiction of wartime combat, Ivan Perez' full-length ballet fails to discover a new language for a theme explored by every choreographer from MacMill…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMWednesday, January 14, 2015
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, London: As the eight performers weave intricate physical patterns via their respective skills, it is hard to tell where juggling ends and dancing begins.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Purcell Room, Southnbank Centre, London: Part acrobat, part contortionist, part dancer, Iona Kewney is a leader in the field of extreme movement. She is not so much supple as boneless, seemi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
Royal Albert Hall, London: Returning to the Royal Albert Hall after its UK debut in 2013, this Cirque du Soleil show is clearly one of the company's most successful.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMTuesday, December 30, 2014
Neil Norman charts the highs and lows of dance in 2014, which included a radical interpretation of The Tempest and a disappointing production of aerial ballet Shadows of War. While it may no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, December 19, 2014
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: The story of The Little Match Girl never failed to move me to tears as a child, not least because she ends up matchless. And matchless is the on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Richmond Theatre, London: A traditional panto rerouted from the Walt Disney animation, this is a jolly romp peppered with references to the local community.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: Matthew Bourne's latest version of Tim Burton's bittersweet fairytale is closer to a living cartoon than a living, breathing creature. Although Bourne'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: While the Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland replaces The Nutcracker on the main stage of Covent Garden this Christmas, something is af…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMMonday, December 8, 2014
New Wimbledon Theatre, London: With an impressive track record of luring American stars to the London suburb, Wimbledon's New Theatre has done it again this year with the ageless Linda …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland: Following last year's Amazon jungle-styled Tiki show, the trad Zippo folks have moved into SF robotics, although the concept is similarly half-baked. With m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Never my favourite ballet, Marius Petipa's Don Quixote has always struck me as inexpressibly dull. So three cheers for Carlos Acosta, whose revisions and addi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Leicester Square Theatre, London: Derived from 'Siro', the Japanese word for 'white' or 'colourless', Siro-A means 'belonging to no group' or 'un…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: The good thing about Jasmin Vardimon is that she has developed a distinctive and identifiable movement language. The bad thing is that she doesn't always know wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PMMonday, November 10, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Liam Scarlett continues to explore the outer reaches of narrative ballet in <b>The Age of Anxiety</b>, which here receives its world premiere. Based on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
National Theatre, London: John is a cri de coeur from the lower depths. Based on an extended interview with the eponymous character, Lloyd Newson's latest work addresses issues of abuse…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:56AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: Using the stage as a blackboard, the two performers of Chalk About write words, draw outlines of their bodies like crime scenes of the old cchoo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Peacock Theatre, London: Imagine a cross between a Jackie Chan comedy and a Tom and Jerry cartoon and you are halfway to the physical slapstick of Yegam Theatre's mad Korean panto.
Rea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMMonday, October 20, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: The triumph of Birmingham Royal Ballet's triple bill is in the way it sketches in the reaction of different societies as war approaches. The big news here is Gil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMRoyal Opera House, London: Ashtonian is the term now used to describe the singularly British form of ballet and there are no better practitioners of the style than the Royal Ballet whose ass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Wycombe Swan, High Wycombe: Richard Alston has been making dance since 1968, and some have criticised him for sticking to his classical/contemporary roots. Yet, surrounded by the flashy pyro…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:04AMMonday, October 6, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: The literal translation of Grupo Corpo is Body Group; but it also carries the word 'corporation' within its shadow. A family affair, it applies classical ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Birmingham Hippodrome: David Bintley's big beast of a ballet is a thing of beauty. From the astonishing set designed by Philip Prowse, including a sumptuous gothic library and a genuine…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
New Victoria Theatre, Woking, then touring until April 28: Designed with elegance and flair from top to toe, David Nixon's ballet of F Scott Fitzgerald's immortal novel transports …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMMonday, September 22, 2014
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: Can there be a sunnier personality in ballet than Nancy Osbaldeston? The former ENB dancer who has recently joined The Royal Ballet of Flanders …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AM 
