A lot of companies and venues have made full-length work from their archives available online, sometimes for a limited time, sometimes pay per view. Sometimes you just stumble across full-length works on Vimeo and YouTube. It's a good to time to use those search functions. Being on the mailing lists for venues and companies brings viewing opportunities straight to your inbox also.
I am not normally a big fan of live streaming and the like but now - as I face up to the very real possibility that I will be lucky if I see any more live dance this year - this seems like a good time to avail myself of the opportunity.
Part of me doesn't want to spoil work that I would have hoped to see by watching it online but it is good to see work that I have enjoyed live in the past again and to see work that is no longer in repertoire or from companies I am unlikely to see under the most normal of circumstances, such as foreign companies that rarely visit and the Royal Ballet.
Being the kind of person that likes to catalogue things: the more self-indulgent and pointless the better...
I am not normally a big fan of live streaming and the like but now - as I face up to the very real possibility that I will be lucky if I see any more live dance this year - this seems like a good time to avail myself of the opportunity.
Part of me doesn't want to spoil work that I would have hoped to see by watching it online but it is good to see work that I have enjoyed live in the past again and to see work that is no longer in repertoire or from companies I am unlikely to see under the most normal of circumstances, such as foreign companies that rarely visit and the Royal Ballet.
Being the kind of person that likes to catalogue things: the more self-indulgent and pointless the better...
- Acis & Galatea (G. F. Handel / Wayne McGregor) | Royal Opera/ Royal Ballet | Royal Opera House (This was delightful)
- Broken Wings (Annabelle Lopez Ochoa) | English National Ballet (I saw this at Sadler's last year and enjoyed the opportunity to see it gain)
- Clowns | Hofesh Shechter | BBC iPlayer (I have watched this many times)
- Deluxe | BalletBoyz | Sadler's Wells' Digital Stage
- Meyerling | Royal Ballet | BBC iPlayer
- The Art of Not Looking Back (Hofesh Shechter) | Paris Opera Ballet | YouTube
- The Rite of Spring (Maurice Bejart) (1971) | Ballet of the 20th Century | YouTube (I am obseessed with versions of The Rite and I would love to see this 1959 version that looks equally extraordinary and daft).
- The Metamorphosis (Arthur Pita) | Royal Ballet | Royal Opera House
- To a simple rock'n'roll... song | Michael Clark Company | BBC iPlayer (A good opprtunity to revit something I enjoyed very much on stage)
- Untitled Black (Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar) | GöteborgsOperans Danskompani | https://gofilm.se/ (This was tremendous but I am biased)
- Valley (Marina Mascarell) | GöteborgsOperans Danskompani | https://gofilm.se/ (This was something I would very much enjoy seeing live)