This combination of live and projected solo dance for young children is visually and aurally beautiful – the lighting is carefully set, the recording of the sung Puccini score clean, the set a simple large white folded shape, the dancer’s costumes spotless white shapes that reflect a Japanese aesthetic. The dancer is sublimely professional, creating […]
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Zion Dance Company: Another Tarantino Story
May 7th, 2013 by Bill ParslowIn the first of three dance pieces by the Californian dance company Zion the audience is invited to cluster around a small raised stage. As mine was an English audience of course there was much embarrassed shuffling ‘not too close’, and the stage manager handling this aspect of our entry had to coax and encourage. […]
Voetvolk: It’s going to get worse and worse and worse, my friend
April 11th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeRhetoric has the power to persuade and a good speech takes its listeners on a journey, often leading them to a place of rapture – and no more so than with evangelist preachers like the American televangelist Jimmy Swaggart. In a fifty-minute dance piece, Lisbeth Gruwez embodies this disarming process. She first appears backlit, standing […]
balletLORENT: Rapunzel
April 5th, 2013 by Geraldine GiddingsIn the opening scenes of this show, the stage is full of children and adults happily dancing; brightly lit, laughing, they throw giant red balloons gently to one another and dance gaily around a central maypole, framed by the stylised wrought iron trellis / tree panels that make up the show’s set. It could be […]
Giulio D’Anna: Parkin’son
March 15th, 2013 by Lisa WolfeThe classic conventions of the father and son relationship are explored in this dance-based performance by Giulio (31) and Stefano (62) D’Anna. Dramatic and emotive piquancy is added due to Stefano being recently diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Father and son are both therapists, but only Giulio is dance trained. He has created and choreographed this […]