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...It certainly seems to be standing still for Louise Lecavalier whose mesmerising solo, Minutes around late afternoon, supplied the evening’s centrepiece....
...Like 2019’s Revisor and the Olivier Award-winning Betroffenheit, in Assembly Hall, the dancers from Pite’s Kidd Pivot company mime and lip-sync to Young’s rapid-fire text....
...It opens with a revival of 1955’s dazzling Danses concertantes, the choreographer’s first professional commission....
...Many of Ink’s props — the glitterball, the foetus — featured in 2021’s Transverse Orientation, and the octopus motif made its first appearance in 1992’s Sappho, in which the creature is smashed against a...
...In 2019’s Anthems by Spanish dancemaker Goyo Montero the cast are clad in flesh-matched body stockings, their abdominal muscles outlined in pen strokes like sheets from an anatomist’s sketchbook....
...Many are now snapping up options tied to the S&P that profit if the market keeps on rising....
...Sunak unveiled the plan in October as he scrapped all of HS2’s northern leg because it was running tens of billions of pounds over budget....
...The result, 2022’s Song of Songs, has now had its UK premiere at London’s Barbican Theatre....
.... ★★★★☆ Aaron S Watkin’s programme of three works for English National Ballet, Our Voices, also bids to combine tradition and innovation....
...Orange, an enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, achieved something like instant canonical status with his debut novel, 2018’s There There....
...The Icelandic composer’s doomy 2018 Metacosmos imagines a journey through a black hole, while 2021’s Catamorphosis ponders the climate emergency....
...Jalet enjoys exploring “dance in relationship to the visual arts”, but share your stage with too big an installation — as he did with the 20-foot foam blob in 2016’s Vessel — and the movement is overwhelmed...
...Pite and Complicité’s Simon McBurney mine the same seam with 2022’s Figures in Extinction [1.0], the first instalment of a triptych on the climate crisis....
...In 2021’s Surge, Brown is at first a CGI lay figure jerking robotically to life, swooping into lead-boot backbends, changing direction with mercurial ease while vocalising to a generic-sounding drone of...
...Following successful visits to the UK with her reworkings of Swan Lake and Giselle, Soweto-born dancemaker Dada Masilo has begun a 14-city tour of 2021’s The Sacrifice, a 60-minute work inspired by Stravinsky...
...Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970 collects abstract art made by women artists in the 20 years following the second world war, featuring works by Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth,...
...The finale was a revival of 2015’s jazzy Alrededor No Hay Nada (literally: “There’s nothing around”) by Spanish dancemaker Goyo Montero....
...Louise Haigh, Labour’s shadow transport secretary, accused the government of mismanaging the project at a huge cost to taxpayers....
...The company is currently between managers (artistic director designate Aaron S Watkin is contractually bound to Dresden’s Semperoper Ballett until August), but there were strong performances at all levels...
...Louise Haigh, shadow transport secretary, insisted the cancellation of HS2’s northern leg was “the exact opposite of the levelling up we were promised” and a sign of “chaos” in Sunak’s government....
...A new chapter commenced at Chinese-owned Carven, which returned to the catwalk after a five-year hiatus, this time under former Lacoste and Joseph designer Louise Trotter....
...Although the orchestral works will attract the most attention, the selection includes chamber music, notably a fine Piano Trio by Louise Farrenc, piano solos and many songs....
...The combination of pixelation and human outlines resembled nothing so much as the credit sequence for TV’s 1969-70 cult classic Department S — only this time in boring old black and white....
...This pessimistic painting was chosen as poster image for 2024’s Brussels/Paris blockbuster exhibition Imagine! 100 Years of Surrealism....
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