The Place is soon to present Protein Dance’s Border Tales and R O S A L I N D by James Cousins Company at Summerhall (4-26 August), and Fagin’s Twist by Avant Garde Dance at Zoo Venues (21-27 August) in Edinburgh. Continue reading The Place presents its Autumn programme
Rambert to take over National Theatre’s River Stage
If August sees you wandering along Southbank, London, watch out for Britain’s national dance company. From 18 – 20 August Rambert will take over the National Theatre’s River Stage festival for a free weekend of choreography and dance and music performances. Continue reading Rambert to take over National Theatre’s River Stage
Culture UK: inspiring audiences
Culture UK, a new partnership between the BBC, Arts Council England, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Arts Council of Wales and Creative Scotland will launch this year, seeing major cultural organisations from across the UK come together to inspire new audiences and enhance the UK’s position as a global creative force. Continue reading Culture UK: inspiring audiences
Chicos Mambo presents Tutu
With choreography by Philippe Lafeuille, Chicos Mambo will return to Edinburgh Festival Fringe after 10 years, with the UK premiere of a spectacular new show, Tutu. Running from 2–28 August, Chicos Mambo will head back to the city after the company was a huge hit at Fringe a decade ago. Continue reading Chicos Mambo presents Tutu
Mikhail Baryshnikov – special guest of National Ballet of Canada
Ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov recently attended National Ballet of Canada’s MAD HOT BALLET: Northern Lights, this year’s annual fundraising gala for the company. Baryshnikov was a special guest of the company last month, celebrating Canada’s 150th anniversary. Baryshnikov has always been hugely supportive of the company, and of close friend Karen Kain’s work, as Artistic Director of National Ballet of Canada. Continue reading Mikhail Baryshnikov – special guest of National Ballet of Canada
Boys take centre stage for Royal Academy of Dance
Boys have taken centre stage in the Royal Academy of Dance’s drive to attract more male dancers, recently launching Project B to increase the proportion of boys taking part in dance activities by 2020. Project B will include a range of initiatives to widen access to dance for boys and encourage more to take up ballet, firing up boys’ imaginations with new dance partnerships inspired by sports and superheroes. Male role models have been recruited for the initiative, including Principal Dancers Iain Mackay (Scottish Ballet) and Alexander Campbell (The Royal Ballet). Continue reading Boys take centre stage for Royal Academy of Dance
National Youth Dance Company summer activities
National Youth Dance Company, the country’s flagship organisation for young dancers, has been performing Tarantiseismic around the country this summer, a new creation by the company’s Guest Artistic Director Damien Jalet. Tarantiseismic sees Jalet present a unique piece of theatre which addresses themes of melancholia, ritual, control and abandon, and the company’s 39 young dancers will tour to Plymouth, Newcastle, Leicester, Birmingham, Ipswich and Hull, as well as Latitude Festival.Continue reading National Youth Dance Company summer activities
Elmhurst Ballet School’s summer show programme
Elmhurst Ballet School, the associate school of Birmingham Royal Ballet, will perform Summer Variations as its summer show programme for 2017. The shows will take place at Elmhurst’s studio theatre in the school’s Birmingham home from 7-14 July. As part of the performance, David Bintley CBE, Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, will choreograph his first work for the school, and Sir Frederick Ashton’s Explosions Polka will be performed for the first time in over thirty years.
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Dorrance Dance UK premiere
Groundbreaking tap dancer and choreographer Michelle Dorrance will bring her company, Dorrance Dance, to Sadler’s Wells in London this summer, with the UK Premiere of ETM: Double Down. Opening on 12 July, the piece brings tap into the age of electronic music with collaborator Nicholas Van Young and electronic tap boards. Every step sets off an element of sound, building musical loops and turning the stage into a musical instrument too.National Theatre’s British musicals
The National Theatre has launched an initiative in order to develop British musicals, in conjunction with comments from Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber that British musical theatre – in comparison to Broadway – had lost its momentum. For the initiative, leading playwrights and composers have been brought together for a two-year project to address musicals in the UK and to initiate new work in the future. This will come as hugely good news for both theatre and musical theatre fans, in the hope of seeing new work developed and supported.