Dance

Mar 20, 2020
2 min

'Just Us Dance presents', VAULT Festival 2020 - The Vaults

Just Us Dance presents is a raw and powerful hip hop response to Joseph Toonga’s 2019 work Born to Manifest. The performers, each between...

'13 Tongues & Dust', Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - Sadler's Wells

Nicole Jong

Mar 12, 2020
2 min

'13 Tongues & Dust', Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan - Sadler's Wells

The show begins with a single dancer slowly banging a drum-like object: the audience’s attention is captured from the outset. Live scream...

'Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók’s "Duke Bluebeard’s Castle&q

Ishita Uppadhayay

Feb 18, 2020
2 min

'Bluebeard. While Listening to a Tape Recording of Béla Bartók’s "Duke Bluebeard’s Castle&q

A hush comes over the audience at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. On stage, a suit-clad man reaches for a tape recorder. A woman in a lu...

Helena Morera i Delgado

Feb 13, 2020
2 min

'Cowpuncher My Ass' - Southbank Centre

Cowpuncher My Ass is unlike anything you’ve seen before. Taking cues from London and the American West, this explosive dance show creates...

'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' - Royal Opera House

Grace Vickers

Feb 6, 2020
2 min

'Alice's Adventures Under Ground' - Royal Opera House

When Alice’s Adventures Under Ground first premiered a few years back, the thought of this frenzied and fraught production finding a home...

Annie Dabb

Feb 5, 2020
3 min

'Voodoo', Project O - Sadler's Wells

9pm, Lilian Baylis Studio, London. Myself and four other women are ushered into a corridor and given warnings by a strangely dressed thea...

Olivia Kim

Feb 2, 2020
2 min

'Onegin' - Royal Opera House

John Cranko’s ballet Onegin was performed with exceptional artistry at the Royal Opera House last week. Based on Alexander Pushkin's vers...

'The Nutcracker', English National Ballet - London Coliseum

Klementyna Bohdanowicz

Dec 16, 2019
2 min

'The Nutcracker', English National Ballet - London Coliseum

The English National Ballet’s latest take on The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum continues a longstanding festive tradition, and is cer...

Olivia Kim

Dec 13, 2019
2 min

'Otello' - Royal Opera House

Keith Warner makes his return to the Royal Opera House, directing Verdi’s penultimate opera, Otello, with visual and musical intricacy. B...

'Arrangement', Joe Moran / Dance Art Foundation - Sadler's Wells

Cassandra van Douveren

Dec 9, 2019
3 min

'Arrangement', Joe Moran / Dance Art Foundation - Sadler's Wells

On 29th November, choreographer Joe Moran and the Dance Art Foundation invited the audience into Sadler’s Wells' cozy and intimate Lillia...

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