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...Nor can Mundruczó deal with the music itself — the best he can manage for Dvořák’s cheerful Slavic dances is to let the hippies kick their legs and wave their arms on the beat. Cringe....
...Of course, there is no dance of the seven veils. Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
...Marlene Monteiro Freitas is a choreographer, new to the world of opera, and her staging of Lulu is as much a work of contemporary dance as it is a take on Alban Berg’s unfinished masterpiece....
...Quiet passages are whittled down to whispers; slow passages are drawn out to virtual stasis; dance rhythms are brutalised....
...The chorus is augmented with dancers, but it is impossible to tell one from the other; the entire evening is a kind of dance, a fluid tangle of limbs for the crowd scenes, set changes that melt from one...
...Here a ring of bowerbirds peck, hover, flit, dance around bright, exotic flowers, the pulse as hectic as breathless teenagers at a nightclub....
...Described by folk singer Shirley Collins as “one of the loveliest English dance tunes”, this tale of outcast lovers ceases to be quite so lovely in Lankum’s hands....
...Dinner was a hotdog soused in American mustard; drinks were Shirley Temples and malted shakes. The atmosphere was pure joy. I am not alone in my obsession....
.... ★★★★☆ Dwars, a production by Belgian director Gregory Caers with students of Rotterdam’s MBO Theatre School, is billed as “a response to opera”, though it is more physical theatre with roots in dance...
...As the pub closes we head to the Rumshack for a dance, apart from Mary who hasn’t heeded her own advice and is now too drunk to join us....
...And, yes, Toyota’s hallmark clarity was evident from the first note of Thierry Escaich’s Arising Dances, commissioned for the event....
...The dancers of the Bodhi Project and the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance sprint frenetically around the stage, mingling with the equally hyperactive Viennese State Opera Chorus, when they are not...
...Presenter Danny Robins talks to Shirley Hitchings who is now 80 and, all these years later, hasn’t wavered from her version of events....
...Flynn’s album has not shifted too far from Irish folk tradition, however: the instrumental “Tralee Gaol” is a simple dance number built around the tin whistle....
...She tells me: “The misogyny is so deep-rooted within our culture that we as women buy music and dance to music that labels us with profanities and suggests that we are less than.”...
...No one knows the cruelty and the arbitrariness of traditional song better than Shirley Collins....
...Of course, because I don’t like what he stood for, I put a few posters of revolutionary black candidates on top of it – Eldridge Cleaver and Shirley Chisholm....
...Acrobatic and dance troupe Shadperformance provides five acrobats who give aerial silk performances to liven things up a little. The rest is pure luxury....
...Three hours is a long time to shriek and tap-dance your way through a series of gags, and the opening-night audience thinned noticeably after interval. That is not the fault of the musical team....
...Petrenko and his orchestra revelled in its louche seductiveness before letting loose in the dances that lead to a big brassy reprise of its hit number, “The Saga of Jenny”....
...They also have a spiritual jazz root, albeit one surrounded by a spread of influences, and with the leader’s crisp funky beats meshing with the excellent Shirley Tetteh’s driving rhythm guitar, band and...
...Cogitore and Dembélé have come up with a vision that is three-quarters catwalk and a quarter krump street-dance....
...of a Young Girl Emma Ophelia Wayne and Coleen Rooney James Cagney (White Heat) Round Two Jamie Theakston Whitehall Call of Duty Groundhog Day Lego Fahrenheit 451 Cathy and Claire The Morning Star A Dance...
...These never work, and Sellars’ Polynesian dance lieto fine stretches credulity too far. As the evening ended, the rain began. And continued....
...Perhaps that’s a vote for the power of this surreally-sourced song and dance show. T.S. Eliot for goodness’ sake....
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