Monday, February 20, 2017
Eva Yerbabuena is the living embodiment of the phrase “dynamite comes in small packages”. Her compact, formidable form contains enough explosive energy
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Masurca Fogo (Fiery Mazurka) might be retitled Sex on the Beach. The myriad cavortings and mischievous couplings on the rocky seashore set
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMWhere are all our comedy ballets? The operatic tradition – opera buffa – is festooned with amusing works from Rossini to Offenbach.
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There is nothing coy about tango. A stranger to political correctness it derives from an era (and place) where men were men
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Send in the clones. Javier de Frutos splits the characters into multiples in Philip Glass’s operatic interpretation of Jean Cocteau’s 1929 novel
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMAward-winning lighting designer Lucy Carter is rarely restricted in her art. Though best known for her collaborations with choreographer Wayne McGregor, she
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If for nothing else, Woolf Works will be remembered for bringing back to the Covent Garden stage the fabulous Alessandra Ferri at
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It’s all about the Balls. Without missing a beat, the former shadow chancellor has embraced his inner showman and gone from bully
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The chittering of cicadas in the dark; the intermittent growl of approaching thunder. Mossoux Bonte’s latest work, Whispers, explores the effect
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One of Royal Ballet supremo Kevin O’Hare’s more inspired ideas was to commission Kate Prince’s hip-hop version of Alice for the Linbury
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With contributions from no fewer than four choreographers the Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty certainly gives you more bang for your bucks. Marius
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English National Ballet’s festive offering is a Nutcracker of a different colour. Unlike the Royal Ballet’s majestically comforting production, Wayne Eagling’s version
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMDon’t you just love it when footwear fits perfectly? Matthew Bourne and The Red Shoes were made for each other. Hans Christian
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The Eifman cometh. Celebrating 40 years as founder of Russia’s leading contemporary dance company, Boris Eifman enters the mouth of madness once
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Nutcrackers come and Nutcrackers go but the Royal Ballet’s version is a hardy perennial. Peter Wright’s version of Lev Ivanov’s original 1892
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Conformity, uniformity and anonymity are not words that spring to mind when thinking of the spectacular productions by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
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There is certainly no blubber on James Wilton’s dance work inspired by Herman Melville’s novel Moby-Dick. It opens with a lone female
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Has it really been 10 years since Wayne McGregor’s appointment as the Royal Ballet’s resident choreographer? Was it a decade ago that
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Of the five new pieces on display here only one is not created around the traditional boy/girl relationship. For a new company
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As two of his rarely seen plays arrive at Trafalgar Studios, the iconoclastic playwright, actor and director talks to Neil Norman about
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Every step of the gender reassignment process takes Sophie Don, who is training at Lynton Academy of Dance, closer to her dream
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Phil Eddolls doesn’t like labels. “I just work in theatre,” he says. Having designed sets for theatre, ballet, site-specific performances and at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTurning Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s philosophical murder novel Crime and Punishment into a musical is a big ask. Yet that is what director-adapter Phil
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On my way up in the Royal Opera House lift to meet Liam Scarlett, I encounter dancer Steven McRae. Currently in rehearsal
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Rat Scabies is dancing around a rehearsal room in Southwark. The former drummer with punk group the Damned, Scabies is warming up
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Innovation, inspiration and perspiration characterised the year in dance. It was a year of inevitable departures and untimely deaths. It was the
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Now in her fourth year as principal dancer and artistic director of English National Ballet, Tamara Rojo has handled her roles with
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There can’t be many choreographers whose name inspires an entire festival of work. In fact, there aren’t any. With one honourable exception:
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It sounds like a film by Mel Brooks: Swan Lake – Men in Tutus. Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo is an
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I try to avoid reading the programme notes before seeing a ballet, especially a new one. In the cases of contemporary works
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Javier de Frutos is having a salad for lunch. For some reason this takes me by surprise. I expected him to be
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