Dance Review: Resolution! 10 January 2011
Standing ovations, audience participation and some good old fashioned heckling signified the usual mixed bag of performances on Monday night at The Place.
Standing ovations, audience participation and some good old fashioned heckling signified the usual mixed bag of performances on Monday night at The Place.
Add a little excitement and intrigue to your cultural January. See new contemporary dance at Resolution!
Slanjayvah “Crazy Joanna” It might be the last festival weekend for Cloud Dance but spirits were high amongst performers and audience at last night’s opening bill at the Cochrane Theatre. The usual diverse bill spanned contemporary, jazz and tango, at its best provoking amusement, escapism, …
Actually, there’s a LOT happening if dance does it for you. The Place is home to London Contemporary Dance School and the Robin Howard Dance Theatre and celebrates 40 years of existence this year. On Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 May, they’re presenting over 60 …
Slanjayvah Dance “Blind Passion – Live Cut” It didn’t bode well that the lighting desk died just minutes before the Sunday matinee was about to begin at the People Show Studios but fortunately for Cloud Dance Festival and its sold out audience, a genius was …
Jasmin Vardimon – Yesterday, on the Sampled Bill, Sadlers Wells. Image by Alistair Muir. The first quarter of the dance year means Resolution! And lots of it. It’s the 20th anniversary of this singular brave festival which provides a major league, accessible platform for any …
This week, the 20 choreographers and their teams got out the starting blocks with their preview shows for the Place Prize. Premiering brand new work is probably a terrifying business but next week it gets really serious, with the semi-finals, and an audience opportunity to …
Fortunate enough to bag sponsorship from Bloomberg, The Place Prize is a biennial contemporary dance competition which commissions 20 British choreographers to create brand new work and compete for a £25k prize based on both professional opinion and a popular audience vote. Bloomberg’s financial clout …