Dance
Wah Wah Girls!, Peacock TheatreWednesday, 15 May 2013Peacock Theatre Portugal Street, Holborn, WC2 24 May 2012 –23 Jun 2012 East London meets Bollywood in a sparkling new musical from S adler’s Wells, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Kneehigh. Inspired by the world of the Mujra dancers, who for... Read more... |
Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 20134 Dec – 26 Jan 2014: Bourne's powerfully reimagined Swan Lake,with a Prince in a blackly comic court seeking freedom and wild love with a male swan, has grown from an independent little company show into a worl d-wide phenomenon, both hugely... Read more... |
What Matters, Siobhan Davies StudiosWednesday, 15 May 201313-15 April: What Matters - a mini festival that explores chore ography across disciplines through live performance, screenings and debate s Highlights include · works from Julia Bardsley and Wendy Hou stoun · Simon Ellis... Read more... |
Richard Alston Dance Company, Phaedra, Barbican TheatreWednesday, 15 May 20136 - 9 November 2013 / 19:45 Barbican Britten: Phaedra. Richar d Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia. Tickets: £16-35 Part of Barbican Britten, a celebration of Britten’s centenary. Richard Alston's choreograp hy to Lachrymae, Phaedra (New work... Read more... |
Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 2013London premiere of Scottish Ballet's brand-new ballet on Tennes see Williams’ tragedy A Streetcar Named Desire, choreographed by AnnabelleLopez Ochoa, directed by Nancy Meckler, with a jazzy commissioned score by Peter Salem. Theatre Royal, Glasgow... Read more... |
Don Quixote, Royal BalletWednesday, 15 May 201330 September-6 November: Carlos Acosta creates a new productionof the fizzy 19th-century 'Spanish' classical ballet Don Quixote. Acosta l eads the casting with Marianela Nunez, with Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRa e also promising special fizz.... Read more... |
Sutra, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 15 May 20133-6 April: The Shaolin Monks and their artistic kung fu skills in Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's world-famous choreographed martial arts display. With Antony Gormley’s striking set of 21 wooden boxes and Polish composer S zymon Brzóska’s specially... Read more... |
Scottish Ballet, Highland Fling, GlasgowWednesday, 15 May 201327 Apr-4 May, Glasgow - then Scottish tour of Matthew Bourne’sHIGHLAND FLING. Bourne's amusing, ingenious update of the first Romanticballet, La Sylphide, relocates it to Glasgow, where sex, drugs and roc k 'n' roll get a newly wed young Scottish... Read more... |
Midnight Express, Peter Schaufuss Ballet, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 20139-14 April (7 performances): Following on from his Tchaikovsky trilogy last year, ballet director and choreographer Peter Schaufuss prese nts the UK premiere of his ballet Midnight Express, an original productionbased on Billy Hayes’s bestselling... Read more... |
ENB+Flawless, Hammersmith ApolloWednesday, 15 May 2013London, HMV Apollo Hammersmith, 1-2 June; Royal Concert Hal l Nottingham, 9-10 June; Oxford, New Theatre, 14-15 June; Torquay Prin cess Theatre, 16-17 June; Birmingham, New Alexandra Theatre, 21-22 Jun e: Wimbledon, New Wimbledon Theatre, 23-24... Read more... |
The Snowman, Peacock TheatreWednesday, 15 May 201327 Nov-5 Jan: Raymond Briggs' immortal story about a boy and a snowman brought to the stage in a children's show that has been a Christmashit for 15 years. Howard Blake's music includes the song "Walking in the a ir", choreography is by Robert... Read more... |
Peter Schaufuss's The Nutcracker, London ColiseumWednesday, 15 May 201323-28 July: Peter Schaufuss Ballet from Denmark shows Schaufuss 's Tchaikovsky Trilogy - his wholesale reinterpretations of Swan Lake, Sle eping Beauty and The Nutcracker in his own style. All three are played end to end on the Saturday. Swan... Read more... |
