Looking ahead: best dance shows 2017
Crystal Pite's reign continues at Covent Garden and dance holds hands with technology in the best dance shows, 2017
Matthew Bourne: The Red Shoes review ★★★★★
As the year begins, Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes continues its long-ago sold out run at Sadler’s Wells, proving - if proof were needed - that the crowd-pleasing choreographer has not lost his touch.
Read more ...Les Enfants Terribles, ROH at Barbican
Choreographer Javier de Frutos, and Royal Ballet principals Zenaida Yanowsky and Edward Watson come together with top contemporary dancers to provide the dancing sections of Philip Glass’s opera Les Enfants Terribles at the Barbican in January. We can barely wait.
Read more ...Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Masurca Fogo
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch continue their mission to tour the works of their late great choreographer and leading light, this time bringing Masurca Fogo to Sadler’s Wells. One of Bausch’s more light-hearted pieces, it’s a paean to love with an eclectic soundtrack that includes Latin America music and k.d. lang, among many others.
Read more ...Scottish Ballet double bill
Absolutely unmissable will be Scottish Ballet’s visit to Sadler’s Wells in June, with a stunning double bill: Angelin Preljocaj’s MC 14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) and Crystal Pite’s Emergence. Kill for a ticket, but leave the children at home.
Read more ...The Royal Ballet Pite/Dawson/Wheeldon Programme
The Royal Ballet has finally got round to commissioning a piece from Crystal Pite (she’s every these days, and deservedly so!) and that as-yet-unnamed work will be at Covent Garden in March as part of a very strong triple bill that includes tried and tested works by Christopher Wheeldon and David Dawson.
Read more ...Alexander Whitley Dance Company: 8 Minutes
The cerebral and uncompromising Alexander Whitley brings his company to Sadler’s Wells with 8 Minutes - a work inspired by the infinite scale of space and put together in collaboration with Space Scientists. Not everybody’s cup of tea, obviously, but bound to be challenging and thought-provoking.
Read more ...Wayne McGregor: Tree of Codes, Sadler’s Wells
Wayne McGregor has a busy year ahead: his own company augmented by dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet will be a Sadler’s with Tree of Codes, inspired by Jonathan Safran Foer’s book of the same name, and already a critical success following its première at the 2015 Manchester International Festival.
Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works, Royal Opera House ★★★★★
McGregor’s first full length piece, Woolf Works, gets a revival at Covent Garden, with the incomparable Alessandra Ferri starring in some performances.
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