A review of the Barbican exhibition on Michael Clark. Another great exhibition that I could only see the Barbican putting on. The Barbican: London’s Home of Avant Garde Exhibitions I really love seeing exhibitions about artists I’m not at all familiar with, and this was no exception. The Barbican is particularly good for these exhibitions […]
This production seems to be pitched as the thing to see when you don’t want to see the Nutcracker (or have left it too late to get tickets), and it was in this mindset that I came to see it having, you guessed it, left it too late to get tickets for the Nutcracker. First […]
The thing about having a particular dancer who I like to go and see (Edward Watson, since you asked) rather than being very educated about choreographers, composers or directors of ballet, means that I go to a fairly mixed bag of performances. Had Watson not been dancing in Woolf Works, I’m not sure that the […]
Nobody’s Baby Staged in the Paul Hamlyn Hall at the Royal Opera House, which is normally a pre-show bar and restaurant, Nobody’s Baby instead transformed the space into a 1930s American dance hall. And we, as the audience, became spectators at a dance marathon. Depression-era dance marathons, eventually outlawed, preyed on the destitute and […]
