My second and final event of HKPAX was Meeting In-between Time, a site-specific performance by City Contemporary Dance Company at the Pokfulam Farm. A Unique Setting In my last post, I explained a little bit about the fortunate timing that allowed me to experience the inaugural HKPAX (Hong Kong Performing Arts Expo). My first encounter […]
The Southbank Centre join the Dance Consortium network and hosts Re:INCARNATION, a work by The QDance Company bringing the vibrancy and energy of Lagos to the UK’s best dance venues. Re:INCARNATION I have been thinking about a talk I went to before a Jazz at Lincoln Centre performance some time ago now. It was about […]
Immersive choreography by Robert Binet, Dark With Excessive Bright is part of the Royal Opera House’s Festival of New Choreography. Dark With Excessive Bright Long-time readers know me well by now: I will happily go and see anything which involves creative, unexpected staging. I enjoyed Punchdrunk in Woolwich, I happily had a drink in Dido’s […]
Ballet Black’s mixed bill programme Pioneers celebrates Nina Simone and poet Adrienne Rich in two very different works. Pioneers My last two visits to the Royal Opera House’s Linbury Theatre have been such a contrast. The previous one was a dance-theatre adaptation of a play I saw in the West End, by Royal Ballet Principal […]
Sam Steiner’s play Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons comes to the Royal Opera House stage as new dance-theatre work The Limit. What will a new medium bring to the story? Find out below. The Limit I saw Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons last year in the West End: a play which started life as a […]
A multi-disciplinary performance that can be experienced in-person or digitally, HOME X ruminates on the meaning of home as well as experimenting with digital technologies. HOME X Something I miss about the arts of a couple of years ago is the feeling of experimentation. Sure, those were dark times. But the necessity of delivering arts […]
Back for the final edition of the London International Mime Festival, with a range of performances from dance to puppetry to silent films brought to life. London International Mime Festival 2023 I am very sad to say that 2023 marks the final edition of the London International Mime Festival. It has been going since 1977 […]
My first time at Paris’s sumptuous opera house is to see this work by a very British choreographer, in its first outing by the Corps de ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris. Mayerling 2022 marks 30 years since choreographer Kenneth Macmillan’s death. Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet from 1970-77, he created ten full-length ballets […]
A review of William Kentridge: Sibyl, a curiously multidisciplinary collaboration between South African artists. Bold Barbican programming at its finest. William Kentridge, Alexander Calder And The Cumaean Sibyl Reading the programme ahead of attending William Kentridge: Sibyl at the Barbican, I was somewhat surprised to read that Kentridge is “[b]est known for his charcoal drawings, […]
A review of Kontakthof, performed by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch at Sadler’s Wells (and choreographed by their namesake). A battle royale of the sexes in a dance hall setting. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch As something of a dance novice, personal connection is often a way in for me when I’m selecting performances to see. I […]
