Arts
Incredible string band
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are performing at the Albert Hall: playing their tiny instruments in a very big…
Building on the past
London was an industrial city until remarkably recently. It seems extraordinary now, but Bankside Power Station was built in 1947,…
Incredible string band
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are performing at the Albert Hall: playing their tiny instruments in a very big…
The place to be
A display of drawings by 20th-century sculptors is a welcome event, and the multi-levelled, multi-functional Kings Place provides just the…
The place to be
A display of drawings by 20th-century sculptors is a welcome event, and the multi-levelled, multi-functional Kings Place provides just the…
American beauty
Tragically, the number of ballet directors who can orchestrate good programmes and good openings is dwindling these days. Helgi Tómasson,…
Royal rocks
It’s a smallish dark room but, wow, what a lot of sparklers. There are more than 10,000 diamonds set in…
Science fiction as reality
What’s that in your pocket? Magic or art? The near ubiquitous iPhone may be rammed with very new technology, but…
Royal rocks
It’s a smallish dark room but, wow, what a lot of sparklers. There are more than 10,000 diamonds set in…
Science fiction as reality
What’s that in your pocket? Magic or art? The near ubiquitous iPhone may be rammed with very new technology, but…
Grim realities
It was somewhat weird that Pina Bausch’s Palermo Palermo opened on the same night as Spain’s victory over Italy in…
New world order
When World Cities 2012 — better known as the current Pina Bausch season — was first presented, questions were raised…
Tales of the city
Last Wednesday two of the three live pooches that appeared in Pina Bausch’s Viktor did onstage what most dogs do…
New build
The Bauhaus was a sort of university of design, whose progressive ideas eventually fell foul of the Nazis. But as…
Unconditional love
Not many dance-makers have had their art celebrated in major, award-winning feature films. Pina Bausch has. Wim Wenders’s 2011 Pina…
New build
The Bauhaus was a sort of university of design, whose progressive ideas eventually fell foul of the Nazis. But as…
Me and my shadows
Shadows and reflections have always triggered all sorts of fantasies. Theatre itself, in the words of many playwrights and theorists,…
Celebrating identity
Last year, when I reviewed The Sum of Parts, the community-oriented piece produced by Connect, Sadler’s Wells Creative Learning department,…
From street to stage
Breakin’ Convention, now in its ninth year at Sadler’s Wells, offers a feast of hip hop for all-comers, be they…
Magic chemistry
Artifact was the first work that the groundbreaking dance-maker William Forsythe created in 1984 for the legendary Ballet Frankfurt. It…
Triple triumph
Not many ballet companies convey young love as credibly as Birmingham Royal Ballet. And I am not talking about select…
Succulent pleasures
It was about time a dance-maker exacted revenge on dance academics. In Alexander Ekman’s 2010 Cacti, a voiceover explains the…
On the ropes
‘Aerial’ ballets were all the rage in late-Victorian London. It mattered little that they were more circus acts than actual…
Star turn
At first sight, the new Royal Ballet double bill might come across as an odd coupling: Ashton’s sparkling The Dream…
Room with a view
Living Architecture is a new social enterprise that adds a touch of glamour to the traditional British holiday. Instead of…
