This summer, as advertisements in the Tube trumpet, the world will come to London. For some theatregoers, the world will already have arrived, with the Tanztheater Wuppertal’s revival of their late, visionary choreographer Pina Bausch’s Global Cities, ten pieces of ‘dance-theatre’ inspired and commissioned by metropoli ranging from Rome to Hong Kong. The current revival is […]
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Probe Theatre, Antonia Grove and Wendy Houstoun: Small Talk
May 25th, 2012 by Hannah SullivanSmall Talk is a solo performance made by choreographer Wendy Houston for performer Antonia Grove, the premise of which is an actress auditioning for a B-Movie. The performance is carried by a recording of a self-help tape teaching assertiveness. A soft voice talks us through how we can be anything we want, how we can make […]
New Adventures: Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures
May 19th, 2012 by Lisa WolfeThe number of straight young men encouraged into ballet schools might plummet after two and half hours of brazen campery in Matthew Bourne’s triple bill. Presented to celebrate his company’s 25th anniversary, it is a timely selection for a year of Jubilee and Olympic festivities, a lighthearted, nostalgia-ladened programme of exquisitely performed classical ballet with […]
Klaus Obermaier: Apparition
May 17th, 2012 by Miriam (Mim) KingTwo dancers, a strand of light behind them, an intense white strand of light, cutting across the rear wall – in response to the dancers, or is it that the dancers are responding to the light? This mesmerising brilliant strand is superseded by lines of light streaming down, vertically, contrasted by horizontal lines projected onto […]
Lost Dog: Triple Bill
April 13th, 2012 by Thomas BaconFormed in 2004, Lost Dog was created with the express aim of making work that blends theatre and dance within pieces that are framed by unique, character-driven stories. This triple bill at the Arnolfini presented three of the company’s short works. The Overhead Project opens with two individuals on stage in what at first appears to […]