For the more witchy among you, May Day bank holiday or Beltane is all about renewal, regrowth, and May poles. I have my own tradition, which is an artistic celebration of the new, budding, and blossoming: Breakin’ Convention. Due to word limits and a very stuffed festival, I shall be sparing with background. Twenty-two years ago, HipHop legend Jonzi D and his ...
Don’t we all want to regress evolutionarily and return to the trees? Ok just me? Well, Dance Reflections does just that with Rachid Ouramdane and the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève’s latest highline extravaganza. Arguably the best-heeled festival in the city, your little theatre reviewer returned to the Dance Reflections byVan Cleef & Arpels Festival for much more than just the ...
Midway through the gold-spangled Dance Reflections Festival (by Van Cleef & Arpels), Lyon Opera Ballet takes on the messiah of modern dance: Merce Cunningham. Dance Reflections Festival – Lyon Opera Ballet If you’re reading this, I assume you are a dance head, like myself, and so the shadow of Merce Cunningham looms large. If not, the American choreographer and dancer dominated the ...
Sadler’s Wells Everyone has their own specific May bank holiday rituals. Some go for a bracing hike around the Chilterns, some down tinned cocktails on the sin-wagon to Brighton, and some (Including me) pack into the already packed Sadler’s Wells for the yearly hip hop festival Breakin’ Convention. This time the festival is celebrating 21 years. Bounding along, forgetting names, ...