Dance
Akram Khan, Desh, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 21 May 20132-9 October, Akram Khan Company, DESH, Sadler's Wells Sec ond run for the Olivier Award-winning DESH, a large-scale one-man explorat ion of his "homeland", moving between Britain and Bangladesh with designs by Tim Yip. Booking: www.sadlerswells.... Read more... |
Du Goudron et des Plumes, Barbican TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201328 Nov-1 Dec: Compagnie MPTA / Mathurin Bolze return with Du Go udron et des Plumes. A fantastic combination of thrilling acrobatics, bewi tching lighting and original music by Philippe Foch and Jérôme Fèvre, all played on an ingenious set. See... Read more... |
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Swan Lake, Lowry SalfordTuesday, 21 May 201319-22 September, Swan Lake, The Lowry, Salford. Sir Peter Wr ight's superb production created with former ballerina Galina Samsova in 19 91 for BRB, designed with marvellous luxury by Philip Prowse. booking: w ww.brb.org.uk Read more... |
West Side Story, The Sage GatesheadTuesday, 21 May 2013West Side Story (4–7 July 2012) produced by The Sage Gateshead in association with the RSC’s Open Stages, a full-scale production of Bern stein’s classic musical featuring a cast of professional as well as new andemerging talent, selected from... Read more... |
BRB 'Spring Passions' double bill, Birmingham HippodromeTuesday, 21 May 201329 Feb-3 Mar, "Spring Passions": Ashton's Daphnis and Chloë / The Two Pigeons, Birmingham Hippodrome. Two beautiful Ashton ballets aboutlove: Chloë, a shepherdess kidnapped by a pirate, has to be rescued withthe help of the god Pan and of one of... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, Firebird/In the Night/Raymonda, Royal Opera HouseTuesday, 21 May 201322 Dec-11 Jan, The Firebird/ In the Night/ Raymonda Act III (6pfs). Fokine's glittering fairytale to Stravinsky's magical score marks 100 years since the work was first performed at Covent Garden. Jerome Robbi ns' In the Night is a romantic... Read more... |
Random Dance premieres, ROH2 Linbury Studio TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201322-24 November: creations by three choreographers mentored by W ayne McGregor Life’s Witness by Robert Binet Hertz by Alexander Whitley Alpha Episodes by Paolo Mangiola 22, 23 November at 7.45pm, 24 November at 2.30pm and 7.45pm Booking: www.roh.... Read more... |
English National Ballet, The Nutcracker, Southampton MayflowerTuesday, 21 May 2013ENB's latest production of the delectable Tchaikovsky ballet ab out mice, Christmas and the Land of Sweets is a traditional version by Way ne Eagling. Southampton Mayflower 22 Nov 2012 - 25 Nov 2012 London Co liseum 12 Dec 2012 - 5 Jan 2013... Read more... |
Maris Liepa ballet gala, ColiseumTuesday, 21 May 2013MARIS LIEPA GALA: Russian Season of the XXI Century An interna tional line-up from Russia and the US, including the Bolshoi Ballet’s IlzeLiepa, Dmitry Gudanov, Denis Rodkin, the Mariinsky's Vladimir Shklyarovand Ekaterina Osmolkina, plus veteran... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, ROHTuesday, 21 May 201314-20 July: Metamophorsis: Titian 2012. Seven choreographers co llaborate with artists Conrad Shawcross, Mark Wallinger and Chris Ofili ina National Gallery collaboration to spotlight Titian’s great paintings, D iana and Actaeon, The Death of... Read more... |
The Dream/Song of the Earth, Royal BalletTuesday, 21 May 20131 Feb-5 March, 6 performances of a classic British genius doub le bill of Ashton's deliciously erotic The Dream (based on Shakespeare's pl ay A Midsummer Night's Dream)... Read more... |
Royal Ballet, The Wind in the Willows, Linbury Studio TheatreTuesday, 21 May 201312 Dec-5 Jan (Linbury Studio Theatre), The Wind in the Willows(30 pfs). Will Tuckett's charming stagework based on the Kenneth Grahame c hildren's classic has a delicious dressing-up box quality. 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, December, 2... Read more... |
