choreographers
Dance 2000-9: From Ballet to Hip HopThursday, 31 December 2009![]() The Noughts were a bonanza time for builders, scientists and bureaucrats in the dance arena, throwing up numerous fine dance venues and bases, collaborating intellectually with modern choreographers, or targeting social minorities, but the blazing... Read more... |
Preparing The Tsarina's SlippersMonday, 16 November 2009![]() A delicious new treat is promised at The Royal Opera House for Christmas: a comic opera by Tchaikovsky that brings the wit and fun of a Russian magical folk tale to the stage in a staging of rare opulence. A story of turbulent love, magical rides... Read more... |
Mark Morris Dance Group, Sadler's Wells & touringTuesday, 27 October 2009![]() I try to remember when I first saw Mark Morris’s dance company and what I thought of them. Fairly weird, I recall - like chubby church-goers, with their big bottoms, fleshy arms and homespun cheeriness, not remotely part of the sharp-boned,... Read more... |
Q&A Special: Choreographer William Forsythe Over TimeWednesday, 09 September 2009![]() The radical modern choreographer William Forsythe (b 1950) was celebrated in a week of events in London’s stages this year, marking his transition from mouldbreaking neo-classical ballet to a more collaborative, theatre mode.These transcripts come... Read more... |
Rosas danst Rosas, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 08 September 2009![]() There’s a sly in-joke in the plastering of Mark Morris posters over Sadler’s Wells when Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Rosas are currently inside it. Morris, the waggish American choreographer whose publicity shouts “Joy, Pure Joy”, dubbed her “De... Read more... |
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