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My rookie era: in a period of heartbreak, learning to pole dance gave me structure
7+ hour, 7+ min ago (674+ words) I disliked my first encounter with pole, but two years later my experience with the sport has made me appreciate my body and my self-determination When my friend Bea took up pole dancing she enthusiastically tried to convert everyone she…...
Matz Skoog obituary | Ballet
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (290+ words) When he joined ENB he argued for artistic risk-taking and promised to raise the company's "intellectual game. He revamped The Nutcracker with designs by the satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe " too unconventional a choice for some, including ENB's board. And he…...
Toddlers in mascara? Dance teachers and parents rethink stage makeup
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1080+ words) Applying cosmetics for concerts and competitions is part of dance culture but many now question the tradition I recognised the signs straight away: the twirling, the mirror glances, the obsession with her music box. I didn't need my daughter to…...
Tutu review – cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift
2+ week, 4+ day ago (323+ words) Tutu review " cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift'The Guardian Tutu review " cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift Sadler's Wells East, LondonThe all-male French troupe…...
Stage | Theatre, comedy and dance
2+ week, 4+ day ago (354+ words) Stage | Theatre, comedy and dance'The Guardian Tutu review " cheeky tribute to ballet has a disco Swan Lake and the Dirty Dancing lift Donbas review " a Ukrainian family fractures on the brink of invasion Macbeth review " just an everyday couple crazed…...
Pierrot Lunaire review – Royal Ballet reaches for the moon with a creepy dance of desire
2+ week, 4+ day ago (295+ words) Glen Tetley's landmark 1962 ballet, set to Schoenberg's atonal score, is stark, strange and psychologically charged Sometimes the revival of an old work can make it, and us, feel revitalised: if it ... Pierrot Lunaire review " Royal Ballet reaches for the moon…...
My rookie era: I signed up for ballet on a whim. I still can’t tell my left from my right
1+ mon, 2+ hour ago (247+ words) Over 16 weeks of weekly classes, my glutes are stronger, my calves shapelier, and " to my surprise " I have a growing sense of rhythm Read more summer essentials As we take the barre, it quickly becomes apparent that not being able…...
The best theatre to stream this month: big and bold Bacchae ushers in new era at the National
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (412+ words) Nima Taleghani's debut play brings a raucous Greek chorus to the Olivier theatre, while Judi Dench has an enchanting Twelfth Night reunion The Barbican has earned a reputation for ritzy summer musicals, with High Society and Sunday in the Park…...
‘At first I was horrified by it!’: the Royal Ballet brings back 60s cult classic Pierrot Lunaire
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (925+ words) Glen Tetley's fantastical ballet, set to an atonal Schoenberg score, is finally returning to Covent Garden. Dancers Marcelino Samb" and Joshua Junker discuss how they came under its spellMarcelino Samb" is hanging upside down from a scaffold tower. "It's scary,…...
‘Let’s get raunchy!’ Gentleman Jack, the TV hit about an audacious lesbian landowner, is back as a ballet
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (219+ words) She has based ballets on Frida Kahlo, Coco Chanel and Eva Per'n. So Annabelle Lopez Ochao was well placed to take on the passionate, complicated figure of Anne Lister The ballet focuses on the two most important women in Lister's…...