Thank you Luke Jennings

Your comment about Ohad Naharin has been sitting in the back of my mind since you commented and last night I had the good fortune to go and see Batsheva perform Mamootot at Riverside. It was glorious.

Reviewed for Londonist.com. Wish I could go back tonight.

Flailbox recommends

Mrs Miniver’s been listening to us. What to see this autumn.

http://www.mrsminiverslondon.co.uk

Wayne McGregor’s Entity

I was lucky enough to see Chroma from the front row of the stalls at the Royal Opera House and it totally blew me away. I couldn’t do a review… I was barely coherent. Edward Watson was stunning up close…. the choreography is just superb on the Royal Ballet dancers…. jibber jibber…. blown away.

So, what a shame that Entity was a total let down in its shadow. Or was it? As Webcowgirl says, other people thought it was genius. One of my non-dance friends was gripped by it, for the full hour. Me & her were bored from the start: whilst appreciating the quality of the production, the calibre of the dancers and the fantastic bodily vocabulary of McGregor, we just didn’t get into it at all.

Where does that leave our critical judgement? Can there be an objective opinion about a piece? Eeeek

Check out YouTube vid on Chroma:

Probe Part II

After an enthusiastic preview for Londonist, just had to catch up with Theo & Toni. They didn’t disappoint. Carrying off an old fashioned variety show – Magpie – at the Place yet unrelentingly delivering stellar, moving and humourous performances, Probe literally kicked ass and left us beaming. It should always be like this.

Dance Umbrella Free Stuff on Londonist

YouTube, diggers & cubes all being given away at DU.

Article 19 telling it like it is

Just the sharpest and most amusing dance writing around:

Over the years Article19 has been called many things. Childish, belligerent, dangerous, derogatory, unprofessional, and, bizarrely, manufacturers of orange juice! With that in mind we thought it was about time we cast our glance around the internet at the other dance web sites out there.

Evil Imp pokes ACE

Read it and weep.

Contemporary dance is rubbish

Ain’t this the truth:

“When you go to a contemporary dance performance you never know what you’re going to get. A lot of the time it’s rubbish, but some of the time it’s absolute genius.”

Read more over at Article 19