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...common ground[s] is a heartfelt, if underwhelming, duet for Germaine Acogny (founder of Senegal’s École des Sables) and former Pina Bausch dancer Malou Airaudo set to Fabrice Bouillon LaForest’s emollient...
...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....
...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...
...It opens with a revival of 1955’s dazzling Danses concertantes, the choreographer’s first professional commission....
...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....
...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....
...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...
...The finale was a revival of 2015’s jazzy Alrededor No Hay Nada (literally: “There’s nothing around”) by Spanish dancemaker Goyo Montero....
...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...
...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....
...Bob Crowley, whose phantasmagoric designs were the making of 2011’s Alice and who created powerful stage pictures for 2014’s The Winter’s Tale, was a natural choice to bring Esquivel’s dreamlike imagery...
...In 2019’s Rewriting, Burrows, seated on a flat-pack table, shuffles and deals a pack of 108 index cards while keeping up a flow of patter on dance, the universe and everything....
...This varied, well-chosen menu closed with a flambé: 1980’s Rhapsody, set to Rachmaninoff’s Variations on a Theme by Paganini (with Robert Clark on piano)....
...The Curies turned down her request for samples but she nonetheless contrived 1904’s “Radium Dance”, outlining her trademark silks with phosphorescent paints of her own devising....
...Her Siegfried was Federico Bonelli who, after 19 years, was giving his last public performance (give or take March 19’s NHS-only “thank you” matinee) before leaving to direct Northern Ballet....
...It was made a year before 2019’s Outwitting the Devil, which had its (belated) UK premiere at the Wells last week as part of Khan’s Carnival of Shadows season....
...This, I’m afraid, was roughly my feeling at Sadler’s Wells as Akram Khan’s company danced the UK premiere of 2019’s Outwitting the Devil....
...The soundtrack combines Rich’s poems, culled from 1995’s Dark Fields of the Republic, with Daniel Pioro’s improvisatory playing of Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber’s baroque Passacaglia....
...Cohan’s demanding but glorious “Claire de Lune” duet from 1979’s Nympheas was thrillingly danced by Royal Ballet guests Matthew Ball and Romany Pajdak....
...Even a long-established work such as 2009’s Killer Pig is evolving constantly. “It’s always a different piece when different dancers dance it.”...
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