DanceTabs

A sharp eyed look at Dance and Ballet Across the World – from 2012 to Jan 2022, but still fired by dance and short-form thoughts / news...

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★★★★✰ London Children’s Ballet, @LCBLondon, in The Secret Garden @Sadlers_Wells Peacock Theatre. "what an uplifting experience"
https://t.co/z5jsYV1uyF

Constance Rauly & Ellie Henderson in The Secret Garden. © Photography by ASH

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★★★★✰ English National Ballet School, @ENBSchool, 2024 Summer Performance @RoyalOperaHouse with works by Frederick @AshtonFdn, Andrew McNicol & Pina Bausch
https://t.co/g3tuA7htzw

ENBS in Pina Bausch's Tannhäuser-Bacchanal. © Photography by ASH

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5-star review of Kim Brandstrup's latest with terrific Sarah Crompton @Sarahc_k words and terrific @FoteiniPhoto picture...

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Echo and Narcissus review – third of Kim Brandstrup’s mini-masterpieces https://t.co/j0XsGfJOuP

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★★★✰✰ @BalletNightsUK is back & iteration 005 featured a diverse mix of 9 wrks & particularly delightful efforts from @JamesCousinsCo, Grace O'Brien of @rambertschool & @JordanJBridge
https://t.co/VC7ZMbug6R

@JamesCousinsCo pic © Deborah Jaffe

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Terrific time last nite seeing Ldn Contemp Dance School's Grad show @ThePlaceLondon. Especially wonderful 2c the stirring Pigeon Dance, knitting 2gether animal conservation & cross culture ties w Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg! Every good wish 2um in your dance careers

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This is a must read and beautifully written piece. I look forward to reading more from Rosie on Substack and to seeing her, and her company, dance again next year. Bravo and love to her.

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

NEWS

Life has not gone the way I expected it to recently.

In the summer of last year, I discovered a lump in my breast, and from September 2023 onwards I have been dealing with the outcomes of that discovery.

[Birmingham Royal Ballet @BRB]

Congratulations to former BRB Principal Dancer Iain Mackay on his new appointment as Artistic Director at @RoyalBalletSch!

[Sadler's Wells @Sadlers_Wells]

Congratulations @WayneMcGregor ✨

[Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO]

Love this! Dancing dancing dancing…

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Another LiftedLeg review...

★★★★✰ @ENBallet are back @RoyalAlbertHall with their fantastic @deane_derek Swan Lake in-the-round and all is good with the world...
https://t.co/wlQzK0Zd5B

Sangeun Lee in #ENBSwanLake Pic © @FoteiniPhoto

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Another LiftedLeg review...

★★★✰✰ The junior company of Brno National Theatre Ballet, Ballet NdB 2, in a contemporary triple bill opening @RoyalOperaHouse's Next Generation Festival
https://t.co/ZtGnvPvfnq

Pic © Arthur Abram/Ballet NdB

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Terrific to see William Bracewell & Fumi Kaneko winning Best Male & Female Dancer awards @NatDanceAwards on Monday. Back in 2021 @FoteiniPhoto did a special shoot of them preparing to dance R&J @TheRoyalBallet. See the full gallery at:
https://t.co/tPJws1rRvR

Pic © @FoteiniPhoto

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LiftedLeg Link of the Week - @ENBallet, 2011 "Agony & Ecstasy" documentary on Derek Deane's Swan Lake.

Next week ENB open @RoyalAlbertHall in this production - a good time to catch up on this unmissable fly on the wall documentary by the BBC:
https://t.co/d8wfB4eP8b

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★★★★★ @gandinijuggling in Smashed @Sadlers_Wells Peacock Theatre. A gloriously whimsical performance & a masterpiece everybody should see!
https://t.co/ONSfGp0kon

Picture of Gandini Juggling in Smashed. © Ryoko Uyama

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★★★★✰ @northernballet in Romeo and Juliet @Sadlers_Wells. Welcome back, we say, to a pacy and powerful production...
https://t.co/ilX5UqPpFO

Picture of Sarah Chun in Romeo and Juliet. © Emily Nuttall

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LiftedLeg Link of the Week on...

Eric Taub (@manhattnik), RIP, was a gloriously knowledgeable NY dance writer, full of wit and perception, that more dance lovers should be aware of...
https://t.co/zCBl7IeU3n

Picture of Eric Taub & Boris the cat. © Eric Taub/Sarah Taub

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Another LiftedLeg review...

★★✰✰✰ Compagnie Maguy Marin's May B @Sadlers_Wells takes encouraging inspiration from Samuel Beckett's work but feels well too slow in unveiling its bleakly comic world
https://t.co/6F4zTqXlHS

Pic of Compagnie Maguy Marin in May B. © Hervé Deroo

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★★★★✰ Review of @scottishballet @Sadlers_Wells in its much-lauded production of a Streetcar Named Desire. With Marge Hendrick, @evanloudon & @ClaireSouet
https://t.co/FMQessaME1

Picture of Marge Hendrick in A Streetcar Named Desire. © Andy Ross

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★★★★✰   @BalletBlack returns to @BarbicanCentre with HEROES - a double bill of new works, by Sophie Laplane and Mthuthuzeli November, that neatly celebrates the hero in us all. #bbHEROES
https://t.co/HHJV1Ckmnx

Pic © @photobyASH

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Another LiftedLeg review...

Review of @balletcentral @Sadlers_Wells at the start of their 10-stop tour in a bill that neatly combines the traditional with the cutting edge new…
https://t.co/tnPhvwuMFd

Pic © @photobyASH