SeeingDance
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Bringing all the news and taking a sharp-eyed and critical look at dance in the UK, Europe and Asia.
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Graham Watts
Dance Writer/Critic. Chair of Critics' Circle Dance Section & National Dance Awards. Nominee for One Dance UK Dance Writing Award 2018. OBE since 2008
English National Ballet
We’re a bold, ambitious and creative touring dance company, that reaches for innovative ways of honouring and adding to ballet.🩰
Royal Opera House
Home of @TheRoyalOpera and @TheRoyalBallet 🎭 #RoyalOperaHouse
Ballet Black
A glimpse into life at Ballet Black, a neo-classical ballet company highlighting dancers of Black & Asian descent. Tweets by Founder, Cassa Pancho MBE
Royal Ballet School
The Royal Ballet School is one of the world’s leading centres of classical ballet training occupying two sites in the London area.
'The sheer delight of the performers washed across the footlights, embracing the audience in a continuous hug.'
Nicola Claire sees a collaboration between ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company Youth and Sadler's Wells #CompanyofElders
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Nicola Claire is at the opening night of the #TaiwanFestival at The The Coronet Theatre in London with #AnarchyDanceTheatre in 'Second Body'.
The festival runs to April 27 with lots more to come including Hung Dance 翃舞製作 Riverbed Theatre and Chou Kuan-jou.
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This year’s headline visitor at #LDIF (Let's Dance International Frontiers) in Leicester - Serendipity - (from Apr 29) is the NDTC of Jamaica
David Mead talks to artistic director Marlon D. Simms about the company, and what audiences can expect.
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The toys step out of the book in front of our eyes, delighting the audience, and keeping them enraptured. The dancers are perfect... just the right amount of emotion, without falling into kitsch.'
balletLORENT #VelveteenRabbit Sadler's Wells
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Jeannette Andersen talks to #AndrewSkeels - #SkeelsDanseMontreal - about his new work, 'Chasm', part of the Bayerisches Bayerisches Staatsballett 'Duato/Skeels/Eyal' programme, which opens in Munich on April 12.
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Frankenstein may not be obvious dance theatre territory, but in the hands of Mark Bruce, the Gothic horror story comes to vivid life. Nicola Claire reports from The Place London on Mark Bruce Company
'A mixture of pathos, evil and innocence, which is beguiling'
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The 'headline' work was Hofesh Shechter Co. still arrestingly powerful #InYourRooms but there was much more to admire in two programmes by 2024 焦點舞團 #FocusDanceCompany of Taipei National University of the Arts (國立臺北藝術大學). David Mead reports...
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Charlotte Kasner reports on English National Ballet in Johan Inger's #Carmen at Sadler's Wells
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Joy Wang Xin Yuan reports on two casts in Frederick Ashton's #LaFillemalgardée at the Ballet Opéra Paris: Bleuenn Battistoni and Marcelino Sambé, and, making their debuts in principal roles, Hortense Millet-Maurin and Antoine Kirscher.
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Maggie Foyer reviews Sydney Dance Company at Royal Opera House London.
Classic contemporary dance (@RafaelBonachela), conceptual dance/art ( #MarinaMascarell ), a breakdance-inspired close ( #AnthonyHamilton ). All invested with Antipodean energy and commitment.
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A conversation with #PettClausenKnight ( #JamesPett & #TravisClausenKnight ), whose #IMAGO has its UK premiere as a BalletNights Spotlight presentation at #LanternsStudioTheatre London on April 26 & 27. A UK tour (details to come) is also planned.
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Kevin Ng reports on Hong Kong Ballet latest triple bill of two modern classics and a world premiere: George Balanchine’s Serenade, William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and the new Strangelove by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis.
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'An absolute gem,' says Nicola Claire. #Syncopation deserves to be picked-up and transferred to the West End. Seldom have two performers, or a musical play, deserved it more.' From @ManillaStProductions and now on at the Bridewell Theatre London.
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Maggie Foyer reviews The Royal Ballet triple bill of Kenneth MacMillan one-act ballets: Danses Concertantes, Different Drummer and Requiem. A programme that 'gives evidence of the breadth and depth of his creative talents.'
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A dip into 'Black Romeo, my way into the white world of ballet,' a new biography by Bayerisches Bayerisches Staatsballett dancer, #OsielGouneo
The biography is more than a resume of a life. It also gives a rare insight into what it means to be a dancer.
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