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CaDance - Danish Dance Theatre
Coming to The Lowry as part of their first ever UK tour - Danish Dance Theatre.With their promise of contemporary movement with classical technique they sound like just my kind of company. Danish Dance...
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Library Theatre could have gone to Northern Quarter | News | Manchester...
...or Ancoats. Quelle horreur.Library Theatre could have gone to Northern Quarter | News | Manchester Confidential
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Carlos Acosta - new dates announced at The Lowry for 2011
Carlos Acosta, the world’s favourite dancer, returns to The Lowry with Premières, his most personal work to date.Now enhanced from the sold out 2010 production, Premières Plus builds on Carlos’...
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Favourite Dancers
A new series - especially now the major theatres have switched into Christmas panto mode and I have nothing else scheduled to go and see before the new year.Favourite dancersNow that I've been watching...
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Favourite Dancers: Gary Clarke
I have managed to miss at least two performances by Gary Clarke either on his own or in a small ensemble but I have managed to see him twice with balletLORENT in Designer Body and Blood, Sweat &...
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Library Theatre and Cornerhouse home confirmed
I have received an email from the Library Theatre Company which contains a little more detail about their new home which, despite some people's misgivings (including my own), now seems to be...
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Favourite Dancers: Paul Zivkovich
Paul Zivkovich is an Australian dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and teacher. He originally trained as a gymnast and you can see the legacy of this background in his dance technique, which combines the...
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ROTOR (The University of Manchester)
Dance, sound, sculpture and more come together in a boundary-crossing performance and series of commissions presented by Siobhan Davies Dance. Artists include Angela de la Cruz, Sam Collins and...
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Political Mother: The Choreographer's Cut
Hofesh Shechter Company has announced its 2011 performances of Political Mother: The Choreographer's Cut.This revamped version of Shechter's highly acclaimed work has been reworked for over 30...
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BRB on BBC Christmas Day
Birmingham Royal Ballet's CinderellaSaturday, 25 Dec 2010 15:00 BBC2The world premiere of Birmingham Royal Ballet's production of Prokofiev's Cinderella, created by the company's director and...
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National Portrait Gallery - Ballet In Focus
A display of rarely seen photographs of key ballet dancers from the start of the 20th century goes on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The gallery holds the largest surviving archive of the...
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Le Sacre Du Printemps by Pina Bausch Wuppertal Dance Theater
It is an as-yet unfulfilled ambition of mine to see a production of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. The Rite of Spring - and the story of the creation and performance of the original Ballet Russes...
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2010 - the year in dance
Bahok - akram khan company - The Lowry - February ***It was pretty good ... but somehow I expected more. ReviewScattered - Motionhouse - The Lowry - February *****I loved it so much I bought the CD. A...
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2011 - looking ahead
Twenty dance-related (and other arts-based) wishes for 2011...That I see as much ballet, dance & physical theatre as I did in 2009 and '10. That no dance company goes under because of the...
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Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer
I recently saw a performance influenced in part by Yvonne Rainer - and if I'd been aware of her work and her artistic ethos - her 'no manifesto' - I would have got a lot more from it.Sometimes it pays...
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A Queer History of the Ballet
I'm currently reading A Queer History of the Ballet (Is there any other, as one friend wryly observed) by Peter Stoneley, which I got (on request) as a Christmas gift.I feel like I'm learning a lot but...
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New Year Honours for the dance world
Costume designer Sandy Powell, who picked up Oscars for Shakespeare In Love, The Aviator and The Young Victoria, is appointed an OBE. Sandy Powell regularly designs costumes for The Cholmondleys and...
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Gay For Today: Maurice Béjart
Gay For Today: Maurice Béjart: "Maurice Béjart born 1 January 1927 (d. 2007) Maurice Béjart was one of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth and early twent..."
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Favourite Dancers: Alastair Postlethwaite
Alastair Posthlethwaite is probably best known for being one of the finalists in the BBC's inaugural season of dance talent show So You Think You Can Dance? in early 2010, but when I saw him on that...
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