SeeingDance

Bringing all the news and taking a sharp-eyed and critical look at dance in the UK, Europe and Asia.

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@davidmeaddance on #TheRoyalBallet 'Visionaries' double-bill of Robbins' 'Dances at a Gathering' and MacMillan's 'Song of the Earth'.
"Song of the Earth, also made in the 1960s, doesn’t so much come from a different planet as a different universe."
https://t.co/E0jmcUVIwD

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Nicola Claire reports on the final of the @RADheadquarters Fonteyn International Ballet Competition 2026.
https://t.co/Gx0TYAfz4E

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Zoë Hewitt reviews Chapter 2 of #SiobhanDaviesStudios #LivingImage project in which artists spend five days exploring Siobhan Davies’ 1977 solo Sphinx and create their own responses.

https://t.co/ic4zgNzfBp

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“A star that continues to shine. Across the city, across the country and internationally.” (Dundee City Councillor Lynne Short)
@davidmeaddance on a wonderful evening of celebration @DundeeRep Theatre as @SDTDance its 40th anniversary with a gala.
https://t.co/sTWqG58Cac

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"Passion, precision, temptation, seduction. #GermanCornejo’s #TangoAfterDark had them all in abundance in what was a exhilarating and superbly executed evening of Argentine tango"
Nicola Claire reports from @Sadlers_Wells London.
https://t.co/3kXBzJD19n

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Jeannette Andersen talks to #JoergMannes, director of Magdeburg Ballet, about his new ballet, ‘Was ihr wollt’ (What You Will), based on Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’, for the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München; and to dancers Rose Perrot and Axel Mero

https://t.co/14QRSuwrjG

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"There is a mischievous intelligence to Duke’s treatment of Shakespeare... Hamlet seems to reach for verse whenever ordinary life defeats him."
Zoë Hewitt on 'The Last Hamlet' by #LostDog @Sadlers_Wells East.
https://t.co/S8t4eAoyJY

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"An intimate and beautifully conceived celebration of de Valois and the centenary of The @RoyalBalletSch."

Nicola Claire reviews 'Madam' at the Linbury Theatre at the @rbo_org London.

https://t.co/IiAbRYx2qB

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Eddy Gibb reviews @DAntidoteTW in Palingenesis at @coronettheatre London.

"Imagine the mythical conjoined tri-leg of the Manx flag. If that’s level 1 of strange body combinations, the three masked dancers of Palingenesis crank it up to level 10."

https://t.co/BzjYP9VoKd

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"Extraordinary quality is perhaps best described as mutant motion."

Eddy Gibb reviews @DAntidoteTW (身體處方) in Non-Ordinary Services by #ChuangPohsiang (莊博翔) at The @coronettheatre London.

https://t.co/JNEy03hS6x

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In our second look at @SDTDance double bill of Édouard Hue's 'The Game of Life' and Emilie Leriche's 'Rotten Work', @davidmeaddance catches up with the programme at the company's home @DundeeRep Theatre.
https://t.co/xtYZT2iZJI

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Jeannette Andersen reviews @CathyRMarston's A Midsummer Night's Dream for #BallettZurich, a production with a contemporary flavour that takes the action to a dilapidated fairground, closed up with barbed wire.

https://t.co/XY7Zv2kCLq

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Zoë Hewitt on #marikiscrycrycry in Hang Time at #ThePlace, London.
"The dancers lift, catch and counterbalance one another, handling demanding shifts of weight and direction with considerable assurance... there is pleasure in watching them dance."
https://t.co/RcVGz5yzPv

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"A performance that thrills and entertains while attempting to relate to current concerns."

Maggie Foyer reviews @MotionhouseDT in Hidden at @Sadlers_Wells East.

https://t.co/vI2YClIVX3

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Zoë Hewitt on @BRB #SwanLake @Sadlers_Wells
"Yasiel Hodelin brings a youthful, almost boyish air to Prince Siegfried...Yu Kurihara’s Odette has beautiful épaulement, the subtle opposition between her upper and lower body creating elegant, expressive lines"
https://t.co/sUIVCDstbi

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"This is a Cinderella where the heroine has a bright outlook on life. Compellingly danced by Saeka Shirai, she never even gets close to being in the depths of despair"

@davidmeaddance is @RoyalNottingham for @northernballet in Michael Pink's 'Cinderella'

https://t.co/HwcYWoneJy

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"John Neumeier’s Ghost Light and Glen Tetley’s Firebird. Two contrasting works, and an evening that confirmed the exceptional quality of this increasingly impressive company."

Nicola Claire on @LonCityBallet at Sadler's Wells.

https://t.co/8NDHmneVTu

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"After seventy minutes, I cannot say I know #BoramKim. But he is a fascinating dancer, an amusing storyteller and, with all his eccentricities, pretty good company."

Zoë Hewitt reviews Kim in 'Gwantong 18' at The @coronettheatre London.

https://t.co/lpef3edN7a

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"The theme is universal, the message inclusive and accessible and the quality superb... Mbi looks to the folklore of his Cameroonian heritage to explore our fractured relationship with the Earth."

Maggie Foyer on #DicksonMbi's Tellus @Sadlers_Wells East.

https://t.co/IiBNyCcVDw

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Storm Austen had disrupted train services, while fierce winds had people struggling through the streets... windswept and bedraggled. The two works presented by @SDTDance did little to make things more comfortable.
Zoë Hewitt reports from #ThePlace.
https://t.co/tEpCirPk99