Rambert Dance
Five new Rambert choreographersTuesday, 03 April 2012Rambert's fine dancers turn choreographer in a new season of four creations to be shown at the Southbank Centre on 31 May. In keeping with the high-quality ethos of the company, each has a new music commission with it, played live by members of the... Read more... |
Christmas Dance on Cinema, TV & RadioMonday, 12 December 2011
No more is dance the preserve of the few sitting in the theatre - larger companies are leaping hungrily for TV and now cinema screens, having found various ways around the longstanding obstacle of copyright. The BBC is experimenting with live 3D... Read more... |
Rambert: RainForest/ Seven For A Secret/ Elysian Fields, Sadler’s WellsWednesday, 16 November 2011
Rambert is making a thing of acquiring classic works from the 20th-century contemporary repertory – and a very good thing, too. First staged by them last year, RainForest, a minor Merce Cunningham piece from 1968, was recently performed by the... Read more... |
Rambert, Cardoon Club/ Roses/ Monolith, Sadler’s WellsTuesday, 24 May 2011
Paul Taylor's Roses is called Roses because, well, because it is. There are no roses here, no flowery sentiment, no overwrought angst and emotion. This, one of Taylor’s most beautifully serene works, is the smell of roses on a still May evening:... Read more... |
Hush/ Awakenings/ Cardoon Club, Rambert Dance, Sadler's WellsWednesday, 10 November 2010
“Nice is different from good,” sings one of Stephen Sondheim’s characters. And mostly, it is different, “nice” rarely being “good”. Christopher Bruce, however, blows that theory right out of the water, because Hush, his 2006 piece which opens... Read more... |
The Art of Touch/ Awakenings/ Cardoon Club, Rambert Dance, Wycombe SwanWednesday, 06 October 2010
The Blitz may be about to descend on dance in theatres, but Rambert have the authentic British grit under fire. They truck on into a bleak autumn with the courage to present to the straitened nation a new commission of music and dance, and a new... Read more... |
The Art of Touch/ Rainforest/ A Linha Curva, Rambert, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 25 May 2010
There are occasionally pieces of dance that you just want not to have to scribble notes about, just to watch and enjoy through your senses, not perming it all through the verbal brain. Siobhan Davies’s The Art of Touch is one of those, and when her... Read more... |
Dance 2000-9: From Ballet to Hip HopThursday, 31 December 2009
The Noughts were a bonanza time for builders, scientists and bureaucrats in the dance arena, throwing up numerous fine dance venues and bases, collaborating intellectually with modern choreographers, or targeting social minorities, but the blazing... Read more... |
Tread Softly/ Carnival of the Animals/ Comedy of Change, Rambert Dance, Sadler's WellsTuesday, 03 November 2009
At its best (ie when it’s not trying to be gimmicky and snare so-called “new audiences”), Rambert is unique in Britain in providing music and dance as theatre. No other company matches it in commitment to this, not even the Royal Ballet, which long... Read more... |
Ballet Meets ScienceThursday, 24 September 2009
Two ballets are premiered this month with big scientific subjects and new commissioned scores. Birmingham Royal Ballet's David Bintley was inspired by Einstein's principle of relativity, with a Matthew Hindson score, while Mark Baldwin at Rambert... Read more... |
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