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Dance Matters News ’s Dance Matters in brief Letters Talking Point ASHTON IN SARASOTA Calendar ★ Emerging Dancers All the most important dance news Xander Parish, the fi rst Post to e Editor, Dancing Times, 45-47 Clerenwell Green, , EC1 0EB, See ’s ballets. Get a tan. Combining those two pastimes is rarely Dates for your diary Junor Souza as Ali in . British dancer to join Bill Harpe considers dance and slavery possible in London, but, writes Leigh Witchel, you can do it in Sarasota, Florida the Maryinsky Ballet, or email [email protected] makes his debut as Prince May 19. The six dancers will These listings are made as comprehensive as possible but Inclusion of dates is dependent upon information received. Vintage Fonteyn and Symphonic Siegfried in perform in front of a panel not just watching, Natalia On May 1 this year, after inclusion does not necessarily mean recommendation. In addition, we have details of some advance programmes Star Letter from overseas/UK companies and UK tours. For more details on March 1, with further of judges. The winner will Osipova’s comet soaring 40 enjoyable years dancing iverpool’s the chain gang as a point of African Americans who professional dancing and Copy deadline for possible entries is always the 1st of the (subject to availability) email as above or call 020 7250 3006. performances this season. be announced at the end of Dear Editor –– I do so agree with Gerald Dowler’s article through the ballet sky, casting Cotswold and Yorkshire International Slavery origin... The abomination of were descendants of slaves training is undertaken in he will be preceding month. Please send to [email protected] Variations footage rediscovered The Maryinsky danced the evening, along with the on audience behaviour. What does one do if the off ending a life-affi rming light. So we Longsword dances, LMuseum is currently slavery is not a key reference and former slaves. Through North America and Britain. presenting an Ashton Festival or post to the usual address. Entry subject to space available. All programmes, casts and information subject to change the company premiere winner of the People’s Choice person is a “personality”? I’ve experienced a very famous all need to sit up at the back locally, nationally and hosting British Dance: point for British dancers who these dances, which swept There remains, of course, from April 30 to May 3 and Michael for the fi rst time in 60 years. of Wayne McGregor’s Award, which is voted for A PAGE actor texting throughout a ballet, and a TV presenter of class and pay attention. internationally, the current Black Routes, open until came from African countries through North America and a legacy of pain as well as Tfeaturing 11 of the master’s works. Somes in the “Awakening Scene” Ballet Theatre UK SUNDERLAND, Empire Theatre In Darcey’s Ballerina Infra on February 24. by members of the public. repeatedly talking to his companion. Another bugbear is Just like Jimi Hendrix’s members (including some March 23. This exhibition that were until the 1950’s Britain from the 1920s, the achievement. Elroy Josephz The monumental undertaking came of the BBC’s 1959 production UNITED KINGDOM www.BalletTheatre-UK.com Tel: 0844 871 3022 Heroines, on BBC Two on This year’s fi nal will be TURNING the women who can’t seem to stop playing with their hair. arrival on the guitar scene of the original dancers) draws upon the findings and 1960’s British colonies.” framework of social dancing describes the dancing we about through the dedication and Tour of The Little Mermaid (ch: Moore) 7-8: Elite Syncopations (ch: MacMillan), of e Sleeping Beauty. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (ch: Balanchine), March 1, Bussell explores ★ Fabulous Beast Dance ENGLISH NATIONAL Saruhashi, Junor Souza and directed by English National A young ballet-goer told me that she would never return forced all others before him will dance at the Lord of the British Dance and It is not a viewpoint that changed. A low centre of inherited from African hard work of the company’s artistic MARCH CAREER Companies 13: COVENTRY, Albany Theatre ‘Still Life’ at the Penguin Café (ch: Bintley) tells the story of the Sadler’s the history of the ballerina, Theatre will tour the UK BALLET HAS announced Joan Sebastian Zamora. Ballet’s associate artist to the as, on her visit, she was terrifi ed to shove down the bench Collingwood again from the African Diaspora is shared by Elroy Josephz, gravity was embraced, slaves as originally “either director Iain Webb. Wiry and puckish, Tel: 024 7699 8964 PLYMOUTH, Theatre Royal Aakash Odedra Company 14: MONMOUTH, Blake Theatre Tel: 01752 267 222 Wells Ballet in wartime, from Marie Sallé to the from April 1 to May 3 the fi nalists for this Throughout the year, George Williamson. The that the camera phones constantly fl ashing before the a little to make space for 8pm. Everyone is welcome. Research Project, during who, having travelled from the whole body was in a release or a cry for help”. what shines through in conversation Tel: 01600 719 401 19-22: The Prince of the Pagodas (ch: Bintley) www.aakashodedra.com 15: MANSFIELD, Palace Theatre LONDON COLISEUM including rare archive present. Good Swan, Bad with a Stravinsky double year’s Emerging Dancer English National Ballet’s competition is generously performance might trigger an epileptic attack. I would have him at the top, so is this Then, on Sunday, May 4, which memories of black Jamaica, made his home in motion, and improvisation Peter Blackman, founder is that he’s mad about ballet, its Tour of Rising, featuring new works by Akram Tel: 01623 633 133 Tel: 020 7845 9300 As Ashley Page creates his Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Russell Maliphant footage and interviews with Swan: Dancing Swan Lake, on bill. This is the fi rst Competition. Now in its artistic, music and supported by restructuring thought that this was a serious health and safety concern, happening in ballet. We must they will also be dancing at British dancers involved in the UK, becoming in 1979 was expected. Lindy Hop of British-based dance history – and Sir Frederick Ashton. 16M: TUNBRIDGE WELLS, Assembly Hall 26-29: The Prince of the Pagodas MARCH Tel: 01892 530 613 , BBC Four on March 9, shows time Michael Keegan- fi fth year, the competition administrative staff , along experts Talbot Hughes latest full-length ballet in but the staff didn’t seem bothered. –– Yours sincerely, enjoy the fact that ballet is places around the Bar Walls the artform from the 1970s the first lecturer in African- maestro Frankie Manning and music group Steel An’ “There are things as a director you 6: LONDON, Artsdepot 22M&E: WARWICK, Bridge House Theatre and . During Tamara Rojo preparing to Dolan’s productions of is an annual opportunity with its principal dancers, McKillop. The winner Robert Iles being redefi ned before our on their annual “Walls Tour” onwards were explored. Caribbean dance at what led the way, “dancing Skin, describes a legacy of want to do and things you have to Tel: 020 8369 5454 Breakin’ Convention Vienna, the choreographer Tel: 01926 776 438 www.breakinconvention.com his interview, Danton dance Odette-Odile in Swan and for the company to have been voting for their receives £2,500, the People’s talks to Paul Arrowsmith Salisbury very eyes, its magic is being starting at 11am at Walmgate The research project is now Liverpool’s John at a sharp angle to the slavery as “inappropriate do – this is something I needed to Anton Du Beke – Ballroom 23M&E: HAYES, Beck Theatre The international festival of hip hop dance remembered that an amateur Lake, including rehearsals, have toured recognise the talent of its favourite emerging dancer. Choice award-winner humanised and infused with Bar and then to Monk Bar, was led by Christy Adair, Moores University. As the ground like a track runner, behaviour” today, deriving do. This festival is about Sir Fred, his Tel: 020 8561 8371 theatre returns. This year’s line-up includes ILL- Each month the author of our Star Letter will win a year’s to Broadway 28: BURNLEY, Mechanics Abilities, Ukweli Roach and Wanted Posse cameraman had fi lmed a performance, interviews the UK. See Calendar. up-and-coming dancers. Tickets are now on sale for receives £1,000 and all subscription or an extension to a current subscription real soul, at last. I’m not sure Bootham Bar and onwards! professor of Dance Studies museum catalogue makes instead of the upright, stiff from inherited habits ballets and the man behind them.” www.raymondgubbay.co.uk Tel: 01282 664 400 MAY Anton Du Beke partners Summer Strallen, with 29M&E: STAMFORD, Corn Exchange 3-5: LONDON, Sadler’s Wells rehearsals for Symphonic and specially fi lmed The fi nalists for 2014 are the fi nal of the competition, nominees receive £500. we’ll see her like again so The group would like to at York St John University, clear, “central to his work ballroom position”. That and attitudes that were A former dancer with both the ensemble dancers including Faye Huddleston and Tel: 01780 766 455 ★ Tel: 0844 412 4300 Variations. Archivists at the workshops. Programme Errol White Company Madison Keesler, Senri Kou, which will be held at Call 0844 871 3000 or see we should enjoy this new, reunite with any former and Ramsey Burt, professor was his understanding of dancing attitude, which was acquired to survive 400 Sadler’s Wells and Covent Garden music from the Raymond Gubbay Big Band and 30M&E: LOUGHBOROUGH, Town Hall 10: DONCASTER, Cast British Film Institute have schedules may change – has launched Evolve, Alison McWhinney, Ken London’s Lyceum Theatre on ballet.org.uk for tickets. Natalia Osipova life to the full for as long as Osipova era to the full. dancers and musicians who of Dance History at De the historical importance something of a revelation to years of oppression. Royal Ballet companies, Webb, with singer Lance Ellington. Tel: 01509 231 914 Tel: 01302 303 959 MARCH 13: KINGS LYNN, Corn Exchange A BBC SEASON OF be shown on BBC Four on now discovered the colour check listings guides to Scotland’s fi rst paid Dear Editor –– I’m sure that her weak heart permitted Finally, thank you too can come and help celebrate Montfort University. of transatlantic slavery Frankie Manning himself, It’s amazing to remember the help of his wife, former ballerina 1M&E: MANCHESTER, Bridgewater Hall Ballet West Tel: 01553 764 864 Tel: 0161 907 9000 BALLET on television will March 5. The documentary footage, which will be shown confi rm transmission times. dancer apprenticeship I will not be the only person her to; she really was the Carlos Acosta; it takes the anniversary. Former It is appropriate that and its legacies”. It’s a came as a bequest from that when slavery was Margaret Barbieri, has spent the last www.balletwest.co.uk 16-17: INVERNESS, Eden Court 2M&E: GATESHEAD, The Sage Tel: 01463 239 841 include recently discovered programme, aiming to Wheeldon’s After the Rain danced writing to you to release the corpse spirit struggling to two to tango, you were members, or anyone who the exhibition is hosted view that is also shared African slaves. It’s a bequest abolished, British slave seven years building an outpost for Tel: 0191 443 4661 Tour of Swan Lake Dance on fi lm at MARCH 20-21: BIRMINGHAM HIPPODROME footage of Margot Fonteyn 6M: EASTBOURNE, Congress Theatre Tel: 0844 338 5000 improve standards among on the 57th fl oor of The World Trade joy in my heart following stay in this world to save clearly her perfect Albrecht. would like to join, can email in Liverpool, as it was by such established that continues today in owners received over £20 British ballet in the Sunshine State. Tel: 01323 412 000 1M&E: PITLOCHRY FESTIVAL THEATRE in Tel: 01796 484 626 24: WHITLEY BAY PLAYHOUSE The Sleeping Beauty Dance and aesthetic young professional The Lowry Centre, rebuilt on the site damaged by Natalia Osipova and Carlos her one true love, to defy –– Yours sincerely, [email protected]. the world’s leading slave practitioners as Beverley social dancing around the million in compensation A small city on the gulf coast, 8: READING, The Hexagon Tel: 0844 248 1588 and the original cast in dancers in Scotland. See the September 11 attacks. The fi lm was Acosta’s performance in the odds and give him the Paul Sinnadurai Anyone who would like port at the height of four Glean, artistic director of world, and which benefits while the slaves received Sarasota was planned a century ago Tel: 0118 960 6060 27-28: BRIGHTON DOME 9M: BIRMINGHAM, Symphony Hall Balletboyz - The Talent 2013 Tel: 01273 709 709 rehearsals for Frederick sports conference errolwhitecompany.com and the BFI recorded at sunrise on September 12, 2013. on January 27, but this chance to seek atonement. Brecon further information about centuries of transatlantic IRIE! Dance Theatre, and today’s hip hop generation. no compensation at all. by circus magnate John Ringling as a Tel: 0121 345 0603 www.balletboyz.com 31: BRISTOL, Colston Hall Ashton’s Symphonic for details, and Calendar The exhibition also features two fi lms joy is overwhelming and just I have never seen anything Ebor Morris, or dance- slavery. However, in the such emerging practitioners Professional dancing, on Yet, just imagine, if the resort community and a magnet for 12: WATFORD COLOSSEUM Tour of Torsion (ch: Maliphant) and Tel: 0844 887 1500 Tel: 0845 075 3993 Serpent (ch: Scarlett) gymnasts and divers JUNE Variations. The season, DANCERS, ICE SKATERS, for spring tour dates. DANCE MOVES FROM THE stage to the by Rashaad Newsome exploring voguing, keeps resurfacing. So, Natalia like it; the closest I’ve seen Ebor Morris outs including the York literature associated with as Ivan Blackstock of hip stage and screen – in North rich dancing (and musical) the arts. A city just breaking 50,000 14: DERBY, Assembly Rooms MARCH 3: BLACKPOOL, Grand Theatre which runs from March 1 share common ground, needing athletic strength screen this spring, with a new exhibition at the dance style developed in New York’s Osipova, thank you indeed. was Irek Mukhamedov’s Dear Editor –– Forty years Traditional Dance Festival the exhibition – circulated hop ensemble BirdGang. America and the UK – is bequest of African slaves people boasts a ballet company – 45 Tel: 01332 255 800 4-5: COLCHESTER, Mercury Theatre Tel: 01253 290 190 15M&E: YORK, Barbican Tel: 01206 573 948 and aesthetic skill. Dance UK and the Royal ★ 7: BOURNEMOUTH PAVILION to 9 on BBC Two and BBC £441 million of National The Lowry and post-punk dancing at the gay ballroom scene. Universal Everything We have all known about explosion into our ago, on May 1, 1974, the taking place on September for the seminar held at When it comes to the similarly indebted to African were to be costed today in dancers strong – as well as a nationally Tel: 0844 854 2757 8: SWINDON, Wyvern Theatre Tel: 0844 576 3000 Four, will also include Society of Medicine will hold a major conference, Lottery funding went BFI. In the Frame: Dance on Film at The Lowry is a digital fi lm created by art collective her bounding, bouncing, consciousness as a completely newly-formed Ebor Morris 6 and 7, please email or visit the Royal Festival Hall historical importance of slaves. The community of financial terms and then known opera company, an orchestra 28: CROYDON, Fairfield Halls Tel: 01793 524 481 Tel: 020 8688 9291 10: DARTFORD, Orchard Theatre documentaries with Darcey Aesthetic athletes and dancers: training and to arts projects in the celebrates work created especially for the Universal Everything and choreographer he overdose of Viennese emerging choreographers. It was seen Clockwise from top right Ashley Page; dancers of boundless and whirling human, and vulnerable, danced in public for the the website ebormorris.org. on January 16, where the slavery in relation to dance, African-American dancers, reimbursed... For whilst and several theatre groups. Amy Wood as Sacred Love in Ashton’s Illuminations. Checkmate or John Cranko’s Pineapple 29: PORTSMOUTH, Guild Hall Tel: 01322 220 000 Candoco Dance Company www.candoco.co.uk Bussell and Tamara Rojo. optimising performance in London on April 7. last fi nancial year, with camera, with work Benjamin Millepied. confectionary that heralds as a latter-day Symphonic Variations. the Vienna State Ballet in costumes designed by technical brilliance and the . Natalia Osipova fi rst time outside the Lord uk. –– Yours sincerely, findings of the research surely Elroy, Beverley, and including such luminaries as this would not constitute The ballet company was founded Poll that were not standard in the Tel: 0844 847 2362 12: YORK, Grand Opera House Vivienne Westwood for the TV broadcast of the 30M: MILTON KEYNES THEATRE Tel: 0844 871 3024 Tour repertory includes Miniatures (ch: Anderson), new Hauert work, Two for C (ch: De Fonteyn ’59: Sleeping Building on lessons learned at the London 6,052 grants going to by choreographers, Admission is free. Call T each new year has been less Some debut – but the ballet was 2014 New Year’s Day Concert from Vienna; Ketevan joie de vivre that she infuses clearly thought very deeply Collingwood pub in Upper Paul Sanderson project were discussed – Ivan have got it right. For, Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, direct compensation (still in 1987 as a presenting organisation; it The choice was practical. Barbieri had US, and set the company apart. Tel: 0844 871 7652 13: SOUTHPORT, The Atkinson Frutos) and Set and Reset/Reset (ch: Brown) Beauty, scheduled for March 2012 Olympics, this will be the fi rst conference arts groups. This year’s dance companies 0843 208 6005 or see saccharine this past couple of Januaries performed only a handful of times. her every performance; this about her interpretation, Poppleton (pictured below). Ebor Morris little or no importance is whatever the issues relating the Nicholas Brothers, being sought by some became a performing company three a strong relationship with Ashton and the It vaulted into the national arena Tel: 01704 533 333 Papava and Eno Peci in rehearsal for Ein Reigen. Ballet Black 26: BUXTON OPERA HOUSE MARCH 7 on BBC Four, is an hour to bring dancers and aesthetic athletes together National Lottery Awards and visual artists. thelowry.com for details. thanks to Ashley Page’s typically witty The winner of the first Frederick combination has already how to re-imagine the steps given to the issue of slavery. to legacies that must be Pearl Primus and Katherine countries) it would surely years later and past directors have ballet; she was the first dancer to perform last year when invited to participate www.balletblack.co.uk Tel: 0845 127 2190 4-5: WARWICK ARTS CENTRE Tel: 0247 652 4524 of highlights from The to discuss performance and training methods. celebrate funded projects Running at The In London, BFI dances. He is back in the Austrian Ashton Choreographic Award, Page set her apart from other and shapes, so that we could This viewpoint is addressed, the greatest Dunham, have (with serve in one go to pay off included Eddy Toussaint and Robert both of the female leads, the Young Girl in the Ballet Across America showcase Tour of A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s 31: NOTTINGHAM PLAYHOUSE Dream (ch: Pita), new Lawrance work, Tel: 0115 941 9419 Sleeping Beauty, a studio It will include international teachers, coaches, Ko Aidoo Appiah of Tring Park School – to enter a project, see Lowry, Salford, Southbank’s season This capital next month to unveil Ein Reigen, was frequently cast by Kenneth years away from the Royal Opera leading names. But I was recognise their humanity. expressed in the exhibition contributions to social and support from subsequent the whole of the “third de Warren. But Webb is pushing the and the Gypsy. Webb and Barbieri had at the Kennedy Center in Washington, new Marney work The Chelmsford Ballet recording fi rst shown in athletes, dancers, researchers and medical health for the Performing Arts. nationallotteryawards.org. from March 8 to is Now: Film and Video his take on Arthur Schnitzler’s La MacMillan. He experienced the House during its redevelopment. just not expecting such a As Sir said catalogue by Adair and professional dancing in generations) turned around world’s” so-called “debt”, company from being a regional troupe just staged the work in Japan, but Webb DC. Seizing the opportunity, Webb MARCH bgroup 1-4: LONDON, Linbury Studio Theatre, Company n www.bgroup.org.uk 1959. Footage of Act II, specialists, sharing knowledge and expertise. uk or call 020 7293 3599. June 29, In the Frame After Punk explores Ronde. A bold choice. Glen Tetley’s creative process first hand inGloria , Yet after a 27-year performing career revealing, testing, visceral in interview before the live Burt: “This socio-political the 20th and 21st centuries much of the way in which including Africa’s. to one with national recognition. Several was also laying the ground for the future. brought his A-game to the capital. Royal Opera House www.thechelmsfordballetcompany.co.uk Tour of Just As We Are (ch: Wright) Tel: 020 7304 4000 Amateur ballet company, founded in 1949, in a believed lost, was recently The speakers include rhythmic gymnastics coach and judge Vicki Hawkins, diving includes screenings post-punk works. ballet of the same sexual hokey cokey Isadora and Valley of Shadows. In with and with 18 and human interpretation cinema broadcast on January context makes the work of – in North America and of Webb’s principals have been with the “We knew staging it would have us in He cast Les Patineurs with his top MARCH APRIL large-scale production of ★ 7: EASTLEIGH, The Point rediscovered, mislabelled in physiotherapist Gareth Ziyambi, gymnastics nutritionist Mhairi Keil, Nick Allen Tap Factory’s UK tour of All This Can The season launches did not add lustre to his reputation. , as rival angels, Page and created works for them, Page was of what is usually a highly 27, she makes ballet look British-based dancers who the UK – have come to company since he arrived in 2007, and the studio all the time – and the dancers dancers, Barbieri scrupulously drilled 14-15: CAMBRIDGE ARTS THEATRE MARCH Tel: 023 8065 2333 “Professional dancing, Tel: 01223 503 333 19-22: CHELMSFORD, Civic Theatre the BBC archives. Starring of ’s Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of continues this month, Happen, the fi rst fi lm by choreographer on April 4 with a live performance by Page’s first professional work at grappled for the soul passed over as the company’s next stylised role for a principal totally natural; I’d go further are Black different from the us from African slaves. have developed with him. The secret would know what they were in for.” it, and the snow globe of a ballet was 15-16: LONDON, The Place MAY Tel: 01245 606 505 Tel: 020 7121 1100 Fonteyn and Michael Dance Injuries, psychiatrist and eating disorder specialist Jon Arcelus and Matthew with performances across Siobhan Davies, and Happy to be So, a 2009 23 Skidoo, set against a fi lm collage by The Royal Ballet was 30 years ago of Peter Schaufuss. Page flexed his director. Audiences were no longer so dancer. Somehow, she and say that she makes ballet work of Black dancers in the We owe the creation of lies almost entirely in the repertory. The ballet stretched the company to pronounced the gem of the season. 1: GUILDFORD, G-Live 20: BRIGHTON, Corn Exchange on stage and screen, is Tel: 0844 770 1797 Somes, highlights will Wyon, leader of the MSc in Dance Science at the University of Wolverhampton. the country. The show documentary about Oleg Briansky and Richard Heslop, including footage of this summer. Riding the popular contemporary muscles at Rambert and indulgent of the latest “New Ashley broke and re-shaped the look incidental, easy, so United States. Books about the Cakewalk, Charleston, The first pair of ballets in Webb’s tenure the limit – one injured dancer would Tel: 01273 709 709 Compagnie Käfig 27-28: EXETER NORTHCOTT THEATRE 23: BATH, ICIA www.danceconsortium.com be shown on television, Topics will include strength and conditioning, body composition, nutrition, core features hip hop, comedy Mireille Briane, former principal dancers dancer Michael Clark and performer wave of Peter Greenaway’s film The for Dance Umbrella but the expectation Page.” Provocatively titled, This House boundaries whilst being totally in command is she of African American dance and Black Bottom, and later set the tone: ’s Allegro have been a nightmare. But it showed n the last few years, Webb has Tel: 01392 493 493 indebted to African slaves” Tel: 01225 386 777 Tour of Boxe Boxe, which fuses boxing and with the full 95-minute stability, hyper-mobility, bone health and the prevention of disordered eating. and aerial acrobatics and now international teachers, who have Leigh Bowery. Call 020 7928 3232 or Draughtsman’s Contract and a score was that The Royal Ballet had found Will Burn was Page’s farewell to Covent true to the style. She really her technique and character. often position slavery and the Lindy Hop, to those Brillante is standard fare for US regional the audience as well what they were stepped up the presentation of 28: ABERDEEN, LEMON TREE dance with street and contemporary dance I BalletLORENT choreography by artistic director Mourad Tel: 01224 641 122 fi lm available online. The conference will be held at the Royal Society of Medicine. Tickets are priced from as well as tap dancing. been a couple for more than 50 years. see bfi .org.uk/southbank for details. by Michael Nyman, the presciently its next choreographer. Cheating, Garden, but it was the ballet that was was the beautiful young We are very, very lucky to be companies; popular with audiences and in for – top-notch dances by Ashton, Ashton works, with Valse Nobles www.balletLORENT.com Merzouki. presents £30 to £110, with early bird discounts available until March 10. See rsm.ac.uk/academ/ See tapfactory.com for presents New titled A Broken Set of Rules was Lying, Stealing brought a non-dance quickly junked. Page was noticeably girl who just wanted to live witnessing and experiencing, good for dancers. With it, Webb partnered Balanchine, Antony Tudor and Paul et Sentimentales, Monotones I Tour of The Night Ball (ch: Lorent) MARCH MARCH Birmingham Royal Ballet Oleg Briansky and Mireille Briane in Happy to be So. HAVE YOUR SAY: We should very much like to hear your views on the subjects discussed here, on any of our other articles or reviews, or indeed 25-26: MILTON KEYNES THEATRE Dancing In The Blitz: How spe04.php for tickets. See also Dance UK’s website, danceuk.org. more information. Beginnings, a performance of Christopher the product of Norman Morrice’s audience at the Barbican to its feet absent from the roster during Monica Ashton’s The Two Pigeons, a masterwork Taylor as well as beloved bits of the and II, Symphonic Variations and 3-4: OXFORD TOWN HALL www.brb.org.uk Tel: 0844 871 7652 WW2 Made British Ballet, to enlightened encouragement of during the company’s wilderness Mason’s subsequent decade at the helm. ➣ Letters must be accompanied by a full name and address although this may be withheld on request. on anything else dance-related that you feel strongly about. Please email [email protected] or post your letters to the address on page 4. infrequently seen on these shores. 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Bavarian State Ballet II Dance Scene - United Kingdom Great Britain “Alston’s choreography TAMARA Dance Scene is light and playful, Variety Lights This month, Flamenco Festival London, Ballet Black, Paris Opéra Ballet responding to the music Triple Bill of a dedicated believer. He By Barbara Newman A Ceremony of Carols, then led the cast – who all with wonderful fluency and ROJO Illuminations, wear stylised 18th-century Rejoice in the Lamb costumes designed by Peter a beautiful sense of line” Richard Fleeshman as Bobby Strong Todd – in a joyful dance of Urinetown and Jenna Russell as Mrs Pennywise with the cast of Urinetown Richard Alston Dance Company, flitting lines and patterns. at the St James Theatre. TALKS Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury A playful duet follows with wonderful fluency and solace when reclining redited to many complete with a narrator – February 12, 2014 for Bodych and Nathan a beautiful sense of line. I backwards over the thigh sources, the phrase who steps out of the Goodman, who perhaps appreciated, also, the subtle of Goodman’s Verlaine. C“Neither fish nor action to explain the Ballerina Tamara Rojo became artistic director ichard Alston Dance represents Smart’s cat, way Alston is composing In a moment of calm, fowl” succinctly describes story, not that it needs of English National Ballet in September 2012. Company celebrated Jeoffrey. Bodych holds danced duets that explore the couple lie on the floor Urinetown. Arriving at the explaining. Framed by a She talks to Zoë Anderson about dancing, Rthe centenary of the Goodman’s body in relationships between next to each other, knees St James Theatre after a slick clever production, directing and her vision for the company birth of composer Benjamin what look like poses of men, depicting shifting raised, before they erupt three-year run on Broadway, this fable revels in Britten with a lovely season comfort or faith, and then tensions and emotions into an argument over where it won three Tony its own sophomoric at the Barbican in London observes as Goodman rolls through partnered holds Verlaine’s wife. Both men awards, the ambitious simplicity and obvious amara Rojo is eager to communicate. “That’s the most important late last year (see Dancing away on the floor, after and lifts that often arrive danced beautifully for musical piles drama, humour. The narrator part of dance,” she says, “communication between the Times, December 2013). which he raises his arms at surprising conclusions. Alston, who gives then romance, parody and satire and his sidekick Broeckx was well aware of the changes They participate in the main company’s who to invite to join the Bavarian State but at least she was able to witness the Taudience and the dancer.” She’s known for the drama of her As a kind of coda to that heavenwards in thanks. This was true also of movements based on curves, on top of each other, and policeman are named that needed to be made in Munich, and performances, but also have a repertoire Ballet permanently, or how to advise a birth of Bavarian State Ballet II, the own performances – a passionate Juliet, a Manon who is both naïve AN HONEST celebration, the company As Boych’s dances grow the central work of the circles, dips, crescents ends up as none of them. Lockstock and Barrel. systematically set about developing of their own that includes works by dancer who they think would be best company that she had long wished and scheming. She speaks fluent, articulate English with great presented an equally in intensity, the other evening, Illuminations, which and low arabesques. A compendium of Hope, the heroine, Bavarian State Ballet II n a better teaching system. In the same George Balanchine, Jirí Kylián, Hans employed elsewhere. However, contracts to see established in Munich. energy. There’s a real relish to the way she says “picky”, when enjoyable second all-Britten dancers become alarmed. explored the tortured love The evening opened with overlapping social issues, personifies… well, hope, Jenny Veldhuis introduces the junior ballet company for young year, a collaboration between the State van Manen and Nacho Duato, as well as with the Bavarian State Ballet are entirely describing her attitude to opportunities away from her company. REFLECTION? programme at the Marlowe They eventually draw him affair between the 19th- the dancers and choristers, the show tackles individual and the slatternly Mrs dancers based in Munich. Photographs by Charles Tandy Ballet and the Academy was launched, the usual classics by Marius Petipa et al. dependent on the number of positions For further information on Born in Canada to Spanish parents, Rojo trained in Spain before Theatre in Canterbury at back into the centre of their century French poets Arthur along with harpist Camilla morality, corporate greed, Pennywise naturally which resulted in the birth of the present By the end of the second year, Liska that become available each season. Bavarian State Ballet II, visit coming to the UK. She danced with Scottish Ballet, English National Dominic Antonucci, ballet has been done on the overall impact Clockwise from top le Laëtitia Lo Sardo in class; the beginning of its spring circle, however, accepting Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Pay, in A Ceremony of environmental threats, collects the fees for Laura Purkiss; Delia Mathews in rehearsal; Above from left to right Jonah Cook and he reason the combination of Junior Company, known as Bavarian and Graf have to make the decision as to Sadly, Konstanze Vernon died in 2013, bayerische.staatsoper.de. Ballet (ENB) and The Royal Ballet, returning to ENB as director that long-term training using mirrors Ambra Vallo and César Morales in rehearsal for tour, which included the his zeal. Crouching around Danced to Les Illuminations, Carols, a congregation of political corruption, wanton peeing. Because little on a tight two-level set with run in slow motion to escape Alexandra Stewart in Allegro Brillante; Marta master with Birmingham Royal ballet and Munich is known State Ballet II. The responsibility for its and ballerina in 2012. What attracted her to ENB? “I liked the spirit has on a dancer’s performance and Giselle; César Morales checking his costume. world premiere of Alston’s him, the cast watch as Britten’s musical setting dance in which Alston violence and personal happens that you can’t a revolve. Though there’s not their pursuers, and they Navarrete and NicholasVillalba in Jardi Ballet, poses some questions throughout the world is due dancers is shared jointly by Broeckx of the company,” she says now, remembering her earlier time their mental or emotional condition. Rejoice in the Lamb. The Bodych raises his arms of Rimbaud’s poems, combines his limpid, low- hygiene. Greg Kotis’ book anticipate, I won’t reveal the enough dramatic substance clap and sway rhythmically T Tancat; Elisa Mestres and Sebastian Goffin in about the daily use of mirrors in to the work of Konstanze Vernon. Concertante; Alisa Scetinina, Sebastian Goffin, and Ivan Liska, director of the ballet as a member of ENB. “I liked the ethos, from the beginning. The The reason for this is that any footprints into the studio fl oor from bonus in performing at upwards and dances alone. Liam Riddick expresses key movement vocabulary and lyrics touch on all these show’s final twist, which to fill the two hours, the to the rousing gospel The ballerina commenced her ballet and Alexander Bennett in Streichquintett. company. Four hundred candidates original vision, to bring ballet of the highest quality to audiences the life of a dancer investigation must cover a range of years of standing in the same spot. Canterbury was the fact that Alston’s choreography Rimbaud’s restlessness with with religious images that subjects, establishing each isn’t really a surprise at all. staging insures that there’s “Run, Freedom, Run.” classes with Tatiana Gsovsky from applied to join the company during its around the UK, wherever they are, whatever their means – I always disciplines, making the data extremely How we feel about our appearance the company could invite is light and playful, agitated arm movements evoke the passion of Christ. one in a few light declarative The surprise is that the always something to watch. No surprises there, and the age of six, and she eventually was recognised by the city of Munich, inaugural year, from which 200 were felt that was a very beautiful and still very relevant mission.” diffi cult to collect and understand. in the mirror each morning can have the Choir of Canterbury responding to the music before finding some JONATHAN GRAY strokes without ever scattershot attacks rebound From our first glimpse not many laughs either; joined the ballet company based in which undertook the establishment of invited to audition and 16 eventually The mission, she explains, attracts “the kind of artist I wanted rofessional ballet dancers spend Science, psychology, practical a big eff ect on how we feel for the rest Cathedral to appear lingering long. Eventually instantly from their subjects, of the raggedy poor, though the production has Berlin at the age of 14, where she was the teaching facilities that are required chosen to become company members. to work with, the kind of dancer who had the generosity an extraordinary amount of knowledge and individual experience of the day. Dancers know this better with them for the two Nathan Goodman and Nicholas the cumulative strokes as if deliberately deflecting squeezing their legs been labelled “hilarious,” promoted to soloist three years later. by a world-class dance conservatoire. During the present 2013/14 season, of spirit they need to have to tour, in not luxurious P time in front of mirrors, usually all have to be considered, so bringing than most and make adjustments performances, and it was Bodych in Rejoice in the Lamb. emerge as the show’s entire our involvement. When together and wriggling with it’s a long way from the In 1963 she was invited to join the They renovated a former city tram eight young women and eight young conditions, and to give the best, wherever you beginning early in their lives. One can that information together becomes a daily in an eff ort to stay positive wonderful to hear Britten’s content, legible as a cartoon and where don’t exist – impatience as they creep maniacal fun of The Book of State Opera and Ballet of Munich, and shed and turned it into a school with men ranging in age from 17 to 22 have are – to feel that every performance counts, fi nd mirrors being used as a training complicated task. For a tool that is so about themselves as they work. choral music sung live on and as thin as the paper Urinetown, we’re told, is toward the only available Mormon or The Producers. soon afterwards, whilst continuing to no fewer than six dance studios. been accepted into the company. Five every rehearsal counts, that you’re here tool in nearly every space where ballet widely used and accepted, most of February 12 just a short it could be printed on. not a place but death, an toilet, the choreography It’s also not bitter enough dance herself, she became interested To cover the expense for such an of these are graduates from Munich’s because you love the art form. I knew is practised around the world. Dancers us know relatively little about how spoke to several colleagues at distance from the grounds The premise concerns a oppressive lie, or a home plays a supportive role, to make you think hard in teaching talented young dancers. institution, the Heinz Bosl Foundation Academy, of which three are German that, because those ingredients work for hours with their own refl ection mirrors really work. We may well be I Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) of the Cathedral itself. mythical future when water for the hopeless. Launching underpinning each song about injustice, as The By 1964 Vernon’s teaching was – named after Vernon’s dance partner nationals. As nearly all of the dancers were already there, you could in the studio every day, and also spend deceived by what we think we see. about the issues and approaches Rejoice in the Lamb, a is so precious that private their revolutionary protests, physically but seldom Scottsboro Boys did, nor as of a sufficiently high standard to who died at an early age in 1975 – was are not residents of Munich, they are do very much with this refl ected time in the dressing room Dancers tend to believe what they they have regarding the mirror. Each cantata composed in 1943 to toilets have been outlawed the righteous victims of taking the stage by itself. sophisticated or biting as the be incorporated into the faculty of established in 1978. Later, in 1995, a housed in the “Heinz Bosl Home”, company. They were putting on make-up and costumes. see in the mirror and take that to dancer described a unique working mark the 50th anniversary and everyone has to pay to big business suddenly As the violent cops Kurt Weill and Sondheim Munich’s University of Music, and teachers’ training course for dancers which is situated close to a large hungry for new things, It’s a struggle to fi nd other heart, whether it be good or bad. It’s attitude and set of practices that were of the consecration of use public conveniences. become a lynch mob, losing celebrate their power in scores to which it refers. thus a vocational ballet academy was was also begun, which sadly lasted dance studio where daily classes new choreographers to professions that compare to ballet in diffi cult not to. As a result, there are diff erent from one person to the next. St Matthew’s Church in The Urine Good Company our sympathy, and just as “The Cop Song,” the ghastly, Maybe it’s just a post- founded. Later, in 1988, the State of just a few years, and in 1991 Vernon and rehearsals take place. These are come in. They will be these terms. Figure skating, gymnastics a range of ways the mirror can aff ect The common thread through every Northampton, was Britten’s manages those loos and, quickly regain their common blindfolded “dead” writhe modern show, a network Bavaria invited Vernon to reorganise started a “Junior Company” that led by former dancer Jens Graf. able to assimilate this and bodybuilding are some that their working behaviour. A list of conversation was the impact their response to a poem by predictably, gets rich on sense and swing their and flail, miming the effect of references that meets its the then Opera Ballet into what is the was part of the ballet academy. and give the best.” come to mind. Each of these sports diff erent tactics dancers use to cope own refl ected image had on self- Christopher Smart, an everyone else’s misery. By outrage back to the money- of truncheon blows that goal as long as you recognise Bavarian State Ballet, shaping it into ike other junior companies, the Her long-term hope is use the mirror as a training tool in a with life in front of the mirror makes esteem and confi dence. The mirror 18th-century English poet chance, the boss’s daughter grubbing authorities. Who never actually touch them. them. Or maybe it’s meant the company now firmly established ventually, Vernon handed the running L dancers of Bavarian State Ballet II “to create pieces that will similar way to ballet. Comparisons for good, and sometimes amusing, seems to exaggerate positive or susceptible to bouts of meets the dashing young can care about characters In “Mister Cladwell,” the for another audience, at Munich’s National Theatre. E of the Academy over to Robert North are engaged for a specific period of two last a very long time, beyond aside, ballet dancers must spend more reading. Some can’t get enough of negative feelings about self-image. religious fervour. With hero who cleans the toilets, who never escape their two- boss’s sycophantic staff probably a young audience, During this time, quite a number in 2007, who stayed there until 2010. He years. During the first year they are my own directorship. Just time critically examining their own the mirror while others can’t get An odd question possibly gives some the choir arranged at the Bobby Strong; predictably, dimensional outlines, either undulates adoringly as they whose idea of entertaining of Vernon’s students had attracted was succeeded by Jan Broeckx, a former supported financially by a Heinz-Bosl as we have repertoire that we refl ected image than just about any away from it. Some wear “junk” or insight into this dynamic: “What size rear, Nicholas Bodych, the they fall in love while she as humans or as ghosts? swim around him like 1930s comedy and music differs the attention of the ballet-teaching student from the scholarship, and in the second they are know comes from Diaghilev, other group of people in the world. warm-up clothing on Tuesdays and is your refl ected image on the surface personification of Smart, opens his eyes to the good However, the director, showgirls, and the angry radically from mine. n Wim Vanlessen and Laura Hidalgo world by the way they had been in Antwerp who had danced with the engaged by the Bavarian State Ballet as from the Maryinsky, from the While the purpose of the mirror in next to nothing on Wednesdays. of the mirror in relation to the actual in Slava Samodurov’s new stood at the centre of a group feeling of doing good. Jamie Lloyd, and the crowd holding Hope hostage trained and the many prizes they companies in Marseille and Munich, and “voluntary dancers” and paid more or Bolshoi, I want to create the the studio is well known and easily Some change their place at the barre size of your body?” The replies were production of Romeo and Juliet for at the beginning of the work Imagine The Fantasticks as choreographer, Ann Yee, teeters on the brink of a Urinetown is at the St James won at competitions. This success who was also an experienced teacher. less as members of the corps de ballet. same, I want to create a company ➣ identifi ed, surprisingly little research every day and others have worn their “bigger”, “the same size”, and “it ➣ the Royal Ballet of Flanders. with the stance and intensity interpreted by Bertolt Brecht, deploy the large cast deftly rumble, knives in hand. They Theatre, London, until May 3.

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MOVE IT 2014 OVE IT, the UK’s biggest my Strictly dream through Incognito dance event, graced London Dance’s “Introduction to Cha Cha”. We discussed his new company UnTitled M Olympia once again this year triple-stepped our way through a short alongside co-founder Stephen Aspinall) Notes From from March 7 to 10. The three days of solo phrase before moving on to partner and international choreographer and Dance People IntoDance Dance Education dance classes, performances, advice work. The majority of those taking dance supremo Sisco Gomez. Both and shopping attracts around 20,000 the class had no previous experience, talked about their paths to success e latest news of people in dance Auditions❖Performances❖Funding❖Summer Schools❖Awards visitors and, as the event covers a range so the prospect of partnering up and the clear message was to train in of styles, from ballet to Bollyfitness, We became less daunting. The final half all disciplines of dance – as Sisco put NEW YORK aving an identical on stage with costumes, Will Rock You workshops to Chinese of the class was spent learning a it, “even the ones that make you look Danceshorts twin certainly has but we liked the look of influenced a generation of technology, PE and religious Jack Anderson attends seasons by the Martha Graham and Paul Taylor companies fan dance, it’s easy to see why MOVE short, paired sequence that involved like an alien” – as it is the versatile exhibition Hits advantages, the ballet thing better.” dancers.” Turning to speak studies will be reformed. In IT is the go-to event for dancers, dance cross body steps and underarm turns. dancer who makes it in the business. especially when each is Dancers At the age of nine, directly to Van Schoor, Dame a statement, the Department teachers, students and parents. Now that I’ve mastered the basics, Another over-arching theme of the ubilation prevailed Blakeley White-McGuire and Abdiel Jacobsen in Clytemnestra. Two premieres AN EXHIBITION student days at White Lodge ★ Dutch National Ballet as full of life as the two the twins enrolled at the Monica continued: “You are for Education said: “These Having only ever experienced MOVE hopefully I’m one step – or rather interviews was the issue of pay. The new company has an associate position when two great contributed little. In Nacho HIGHLIGHTING THE to her triumphs on the has announced that Menezes boys. They are of the month Academia de Ballet Elisa exceptional and extraordinary, new A Levels will ensure IT through the colourful tales of my a body roll – closer to my fantasy young dancers hanging off Sisco’s at Rambert’s shiny new building on the Jmodern dance groups Duato’s baffl ing Depak life and career of Darcey Covent Garden stage, and LARISSA LEZHNINA, a not only the closest of and stayed there until they and I salute you.” that students have the skills dancing peers, it was with a mixture of lifting the BBC’s glitterball! words were told not to accept the £50 South Bank. He has experience with performed in March – Ine, to strident music by Bussell, one of The Royal includes costumes worn principal dancer with the buddies but, by following were 16. “We were put into and knowledge needed of excitement and trepidation that I My only slight disappointment of jobs as “they are better than that” and all three organisations: after training at the Paul Taylor Dance Arsenije Jovanovic and John Ballet’s most celebrated in Kenneth MacMillan’s company for 20 years and the same career, they Guilherme and Vitor Menezes different classes – all girls GCSE and A Level to succeed in demanding found myself walking through the the day was the Contemporary Jazz should not sell themselves short. It The Royal Ballet School and dancing Company at Lincoln Talabot, creatures emerging principal dancers, and The Prince of the Pagodas a former ballerina with have the advantage of – and our first teacher was Dance in England undergraduate courses.” doors of London Olympia on March class I finished on. The space was small was uplifting to be reminded and to with Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB), he Center, and the Martha from shadows attacked a now president of the Royal and Song of the Earth, and the Maryinsky, will give “seeing themselves” in of English National Ballet female and told us to watch ❖ Dance GCSEs and A Levels The Department for 7. The first thing that struck me was considering the number of people have it reaffi rmed that dancers are like went on to a distinguished career with Graham Dance Company, victim, and then retreated Academy of Dance, as well Frederick Ashton’s her farewell performance the other’s dancing. videos to see male dancers. in England are to be made Education is providing Guilherme Menezes. Vitor Menezes. how busy it was. Everywhere I looked attending and when teacher Livio athletes; they train hard, some from Rambert and contemporary companies at City Center. Yet, as I only to return. Although as a judge on the BBC’s (pictured right). Also on with the company in its “We watch each other Then we had a male teacher more demanding, as part more than £340 million for there was something happening; Salvi’s microphone stopped working the age of three to 30 and put eff ort including Wayne McGregor’s Random heard several dancegoers this violent cycle was Strictly Come Dancing, display will be photographs, Ballerina programme in and learn from the other’s and took private lessons Above Diane Van Schoor with students of The Royal Ballet Lower School. of a larger reform of arts- arts and cultural education eager faces enticing you to take their it became impossible for anyone near into honing their craft. The Interview Dance. This month, his company remark, it seemed the end totally inexplicable, Duato’s opens to the public at The rare fi lm footage and other Amsterdam on May 20. corrections,” says Vitor, with him, which we liked so based subjects. The reformed programmes over the 2012 college information packs, dance the back to hear his instructions. Sofa allowed those in training and perform two works at the Linbury of an era, for the nagging turbulent choreography Royal Ballet Lower School’s fascinating artefacts. ★ JAMES HAY, a soloist who is older by five minutes much. We did exams, though RBS farewell to choreographer who submits exams, to be introduced in to 2015 period. Government- crews practising routines in the Nonetheless, his emotive and lyrical on the brink of emerging into the Studio Theatre, at the start of a UK tour. question arose: what’s next made it hypnotic. White Lodge Museum and Darcey Bussell; from with The Royal Ballet, than his twin Guilherme. our results were never the Diane Van Schoor the best choreography September 2016, promise supported arts initiatives corner and stall after stall buzzing style of movement made up for any industry to hear tips fi rst hand from “I’ve learned an awful lot over the for these companies? Marathon Cadenzas (to perky account of Esplanade with Andonis Foniadakis roiled Ballet Resource Centre in Student to Star of The Royal will be the guest of The Fortunately for me, same. When one got better ❖ The Royal Ballet Lower folder went to Lydia Baker more “rigorous” content, have included the Dance with activity, handing out freebies. irritation at the technical failings and those who have successfully done it. last year,” Whitley says now, laughing Since Graham’s death in music by Raymond Scott) a special production of mythological waters in Richmond Park on May 6. Ballet runs until October 30. Ballet Association at its though identical in facial marks, our mother would be School’s Ninette de Valois for The Waltzing Cat. to be developed by exam and Drama Awards My day started with a Ballet Fitness the 45-minute session seemed to fly by. but slightly rueful. “I’ve learned just 1991, her organisation has appears to be attempting From Sea to Shining Sea in Echo (to music by Julien The exhibition charts Call 020 8392 8440 (option meeting on May 28. The expressions, humour and diplomatic and say, ‘He must Junior Choreographic Award Also that day, Dame boards with advice from (scholarships which support class, which was the perfect warm- s a fi rst-timer to MOVE IT, I found how much work is involved in getting danced gallantly on while two things simultaneously: which Taylor’s present Tarride) by locking two Bussell’s career from her 7) for further details. meeting commences at conversation, I was able to have been better on that 2014 took place at White Monica unveiled Martin experts such as Arts Council young performers at leading up. Focusing on stretching and n the time between classes, there A it easy to navigate, clearly laid out the dancers into the studio in the fi rst trying to formulate its future. recreate corny old vaudeville dancers were augmented by unnamed men, presumably 7.30pm at Bloomsbury differentiate (mostly) who day.’ We accepted that and Lodge, Richmond Park, on Sutherland’s reproduction England and the Music dance and drama schools), sculpting the body, it combined barre Iwas an abundance of entertainment and there was never a dull moment. It’s place. There’s a lot of background Taylor is still choreographing, routines, and evoke the numerous company alumni, Narcissus and his refl ection, Steven McRae in print Central Baptist Church. was who since their hair was usually at the next exam, March 27, and from the 24 of Leslie Hurry’s backcloth Education Council. the Music and Dance work with yoga stretches to tone the to keep visitors occupied. The Main clear why it attracts the sheer volume administrative work to secure the and this latest season was gruelling marathon dance all displaying fi ne timing in passionate embraces, Visit balletassociation. parted on different sides and the other one would come entries, 14 works by students for ’s At GCSE level, art and Scheme and the National arms, legs and core. The pace of the Stage, situated at the far end of the of people it does each year. The event funding. There’s developing the his company’s 60th, but he competitions of the 1930s in this defl ation of images despite attempted THE ROYAL BALLET’S most popular male co.uk for further Vitor was sporting a small top. It was much fairer on us from Years 7, 8 and 9 were ballet Hamlet, which she design, music, drama and Youth Dance Company. class was set so that ballet novices hall, provided a feast for the eyes and is a young dancer’s dream, everything support to get those resources together. has been thinking ahead (hence the title). Both from American history and interventions by a woman Steven McRae is the dancers, and shows information. ★ DAME beard and had a black T-shirt than if we had been marked shortlisted to compete. The has donated to The Royal dance will be reformed Youth Dance England would feel comfortable and not out drew the biggest crowds throughout they could want in one place – clothes, I guess I chose to start the company with plans to turn it into themes suggest that dancing popular culture. Like many (presumably Echo). subject of a new book of him rehearsing and ANGELA LANSBURY, with a “V” written on it. identically each time.” eventual winner, chosen by Ballet School – it is now on this timetable, (YDE), the national of their depth whilst the varying the day. The whooping and screaming classes with industry insiders and a because of the support I’d been given a repository of works by can be wearisome, rather Taylor comedies, this one is Although there was little photographs by fellow performing with some the Hollywood and Even so, it was like talking to BORN: 1992 the judges Dame Monica on display adjacent to the along with citizenship, organisation supporting levels of difficulty within exercises every half hour signalled the start of MOVE IT 2 014 plethora of dance colleges to aspire by the Royal Opera House and Sadler’s many choreographers. than invigorating, yet sour as well as funny – but character development, dancer Andrej Uspenski, of the world’s leading musical theatre star, will one person, as, with Olympic s in many Brazilian Mason, Sara Matthews entrance of the Margot computer science, design excellence in dance for meant the seasoned ballerinas in the the next round of schools and colleges to go to. For parents, the day off ers Wells. That gave me the confi dence.” Once again, we have the Taylor never successfully that’s life, Taylor might say. there was much which will be published ballerinas, including give an onstage Q&A speed, they finished off each Adance schools, there and Sir Peter Wright, was Fonteyn Studio Theatre. and technology, PE and children and young people, room weren’t left feeling bored. to “show off” what they could do. Sophie Warner, a recent contemporary dance useful information about what a career The tour features a new, expanded prospect of a modern-dance unites the work’s parts. The Graham season implicitly erotic action. by Oberon Books next Evgenia Obraztsova at BFI Southbank on other’s sentences and were STUDIED/TRAINED: was great emphasis on Gene Goodman for his These important events in religious studies. has responded: “YDE I also took the opportunity to try There was an assortment of themes on graduate from the University of Chichester, attended in dance could hold for their child, BroaderBroader version of The Measures Taken, Whitley’s repertory troupe, a dream of More gratifying was a brought its own revivals, Graham, of course, often month. Titled Steven (pictured left with May 25, preceded by a full of laughter and fun. It Academia de Ballet Elisa, competitions. “We were ballet Arachnid. Gene was the White Lodge calendar At A Level, music, supports the review of some new dance styles, the first display, ranging from a jazz piece that the UK’s largest dance event for the rst time. and for visitors with just a general collaboration with the extravagantly- visionaries since the 1930s. It revival of a long unseen including a luminous choreographed myths and McRae: Dancer in the McRae), Natalia Osipova screening of her 2013 stage was fun for me, too, even English National Ballet School always training and it also awarded The James also marked one of Diane drama, dance, design and examinations in dance and ➣ being the “Fiery and Fun Flamenco” had a heavy tribal influence to a more interest in dance, it highlights and named digital artists Marshmallow briefl y became a reality with older piece: Fibers, in which Appalachian Spring and rituals. Perhaps for that very Fast Lane, the book is and Iana Salenko. The performance in Driving though they hardly drew seemed that each weekend Monahan Medal for the most Van Schoor’s last duties class, which certainly lived up to its contemporary piece based on the film Photographs by Murray ompson gives access to the variety of styles Laser Feast. “I chose to scale the American Dance Theater at two men in helmets and Graham’s version of The reason, other choreographers a photographic record book is published in Miss Daisy. ★ RAMBERT breath and my note taking we were in a different city promising choreographer. as ballet principal of the Thinking MAJOR PERFORMANCES: Back to the Barre title! From the offset we were told The Hunger Games. However, it was a dance has to off er. Coming from a project up step by step, so I could the recently opened New masks and two women in Rite of Spring, which has for the company should of 12 months in the life paperback and retails was honoured with a visit got more and more scrawly. in a different competition. In joint second place were Lower School, a position that flamenco was sharp, fierce and performance by former Britain’s Got contemporary dance background, it invite people to see the ideas I was York State Theater during the ghostly make-up scurry to some impressive ensemble avoid such material; imitation of one of company’s for just £14.99. from Her Majesty The Vitor and Guilherme Swan Lake Pas de quatre, No Man’s Land These gave us confidence, Elijah Trevitt for Lockdown she has held with success definitely not soft. We did toe digs Talent semi-finalist Four Corners and was pleasing to see the likes of Wayne Dancer and choreographer Alexander Whitley developing, even though they weren’t 1964–65 season, only to fade Schoenberg. As costumed by patterns. Graham, however, may prove fatal. Instead, Queen and His Royal were born in 1992 in São stage experience and great and Samara Langham for more than a decade. In like Carmen stamping out a cigarette dancers from Urdang Academy that McGregor, Jasmin Vardimon and has launched his own company. He speaks to Zoë Anderson fully realised,” he explains. “Hopefully, away shortly thereafter. Now Rouben Ter-Arutunian, these made a great compositional they would do well to stake Highness Prince Phillip Bernardo do Campo, Brazil, enjoyment, and though we for Intuition, and third an impromptu speech to and kept our chins down as teacher received the loudest cheers. As the BalletBoyz’ artistic directors Michael it would give them enough confi dence we shall see if Taylor can depersonalised fi gures could mistake by having the out territories of their own. Awards presented on March 21, to offi cially and have a sister who is 11 music – mum had about ten “One of our neighbours were competing against each prize went to Mirabelle the assembled audience, Danielle Allan explained the gypsy area attracted more attention it became Nunn and Billy Trevitt scheduled in the work for them to commit to it, make the dream come true. be seen as cousins to the Chosen One chosen too An opportunity to see more open its new home on the years older. They were so CDs of the top classics and was doing ballet and other, we felt proud if the Seymour for Infinite Life. Dame Monica paid a warm origins of the dance meant exposing difficult at times to see the action. to take to the Interview Sofa on t’s slightly chicken and egg,” so that I could get the resources to Meanwhile, his company equally odd depersonalised soon, thereby dulling the by Foniadakis came when TWO FIGURES IN THE world South Bank. During the alike when newborn that we loved the whole thing, invited us to her school’s other brother won. The ballet The April Olrich Award and heartfelt tribute to a the jugular could be potentially fatal. Perhaps a camera could have been the Saturday and Sunday. I had a Alexander Whitley admits. make it properly. Obviously, with a is dancing superbly and characters of Three Epitaphs, choreography’s momentum. Le Ballet du Grand Théâtre of dance have recently received visit Her Majesty met staff their mother burst into tears dancing around the room to performance,” Vitor school was like home to us for Dynamic Performance woman she considers to To emulate the feeling of having big linked up to the screen that hung behind preconception that MOVE IT was “I “A fi rst-time company, a digital collaboration, it’s been quite he has given us two new but whereas the Epitaphs Clytemnestra made a de Genève devoted a week awards. ASSIS CARREIRO and dancers and unveiled one day not knowing which the music. She had wanted continued. “The moment we as we spent so much time went to Amelia Palmiero have made an immense shoulders and small hips, we were the Main Stage to project the action predominantly for, and about, the new company, needs to have enough expensive – to develop the technology, works. Neither, however, creatures slouch and slump, curious comeback. Janet at the Joyce Theater to his (pictured left with her son, a plaque. ★ LAUREN baby was which. “After that to dance as a child, but was saw the children dancing there after regular school. It and the new Frank Freeman contribution to The Royal given the slightly obscure example out to the people who hadn’t arrived commercial side of dance and whilst support and interest to get tour to employ the digital artists, the is substantial. Indeed, those in Fibers move with Eilber, the company’s present Glory, in which, for more than Sebastian), former director of CUTHBERTSON, ballerina she put name tags on us!” one of 13 children and didn’t on stage, we both said, was just around the corner Summer School Scholarship, Ballet: “Diane has worked of Disney Pixar cartoon character Mr quickly enough to get to the front? that element of the industry did have bookings, because you need the tour administrative team to produce and American Dreamer scarcely mysterious determination. director, and Linda Hodes an hour, dancers raced and Dance East and now artistic with The Royal Ballet, is they said. “Later, she could have a chance. So she was ’We want to do that’. We from our apartment – when sponsored by Malcolm tirelessly and selflessly in Incredible, but it worked in getting The Interview Sofa was ideally a large presence, it was encouraging bookings to get funding to make co-ordinate the whole thing.” exists. It shows dancers Watching them is like have abridged this epic leaped to Handel – always director of the Royal Ballet of Ballet’s EKATERINA the guest of London Ballet tell as we liked to cut each pleased when we decided had taken acting classes my sister moved out, my Stewart, went to Albjon her ten years here as ballet the room to puff out their upper positioned – next to the Main Stage it to see all forms of dance getting a the piece. So there’s a lot of work The Measures Taken uses motion frolicking or courting to studying the enigmatic from three acts to one, but with great technical agility – Flanders, received her MBE BORCHENKO (above) Circle at its meeting on other’s hair and made a we wanted to dance.” for a while and liked being parents bought a home Gjorllaku. The Valerie principal. She has been at all Above Doreen Wells coaching Grace Horler at Back to the Barre in bodies. The class ended with a short drew in the crowds when the action look in and holding their own. ■ to be done, convincing people.” tracking technology. Whitley wanted sentimental and vivacious behaviour of some newly- unless memory deceives and sometimes merged into from the Prince of Wales at on March 29 following the May 19, which is held from terrible mess of it!” laughed near to the school, so we Adams Prize for exceptional times completely devoted 2013. One of the aims of this annual week of classes and coaching “We used to watch VHS recordings sessions is to bring out the joy of movement in dance. Each day, demonstration from Allan and four there took a break. The biggest buzz In Whitley’s case, plenty of people in to contrast a “scientifi c, logical” way songs by Stephen Foster, discovered insect species. me, longer was better. The beautiful groupings. Because Buckingham Palace on March announcement that she 7.30pm at the Civil Service Guilherme (or was it Vitor?). didn’t have far to go,”said talent in musicality and and committed to the morning classes help prepare the students for repertoire sessions which, of her pupils who transported us to on the Friday was for last year’s Got To MOVE IT returns to London’s the dance world are already convinced. of measuring and recording data with but these vignettes remain The company celebrated characters in this abridgment the pace stayed relentless, 21. Meanwhile in St Petersburg, had become an Honoured Club, 13-15 Great Scotland “We were not sporty kids all night, playing them over and over Guilherme with Vitor’s help. dance quality went jointly students and to her team. for 2014, will be taught by Doreen Wells and Anita Young. This year, Spain with their rhythmic stamping, Dance winner Lukas McFarlane (who Olympia next year, from February He is an affi liate choreographer with the emotional response to “watching the vaguest of sketches. its anniversary on March moved earnestly, but as if however, the unrelieved Mikhail Messerer presented a People’s Artist of the Yard. Members £5, non- like most Brazilian boys. We again. That’s how we learned The two boys competed to Isabella Knights and In my opinion, she is one of Back to the Barre runs from August 26 to 30, and the preparation clapping and hand articulations. 13 to 15. Visit moveitdance. The Royal Ballet and a New Wave another person move. The essence The marginally better 23 with a programme that summarising the drama hyperactivity soon became bouquet to the Mikhailovsky Russian Federation. members and guests £8. were different. Our house every year in the Joinville Daniel Myers, and the the great teachers in dance will be for choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton. Telephone Anya Right: Performances and classes Grinsted on 01483 533 971 for more details, or see page 78. During the afternoon, I got to live out at MOVE IT 2014. co.uk for further information. Alexander Whitley in Solo. associate at Sadler’s Wells, while his of dance – what’s moving about ➣ but still unsatisfactory paired an exhilarating rather than enacting it. choreographic babbling. ■ was filled with classical – every role in it completely by heart” Dance Festival, the biggest ➣ John Mitchell Prize for the today, and she will have

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