Fringe Review: JSAC Presents: A Lot of Seoul
A lot of Seoul comprises several different dancers working in unique styles showcasing their short choreographed pieces one after the other. For that reason, the show was disjointed and lacked the flow really needed in a dance performance. The first dancer had a delicate and calculated style, using tense, slow and considered movements to entrance...
Theatre Review: Oliver! Oliver!
I have a confession to make… I have never read anything by Charles Dickens. I managed to go through all of my education, including studying English at degree level, bypassing Dickens entirely and have never chosen to read his works for the fun of it. I’m not completely oblivious to him though. I’ve seen various...
My Beloved Udaipur
Udaipur wasn’t called the Venice of the East without a reason. The diamonds of reflections cast upon the placid, ever expanding Lake Pichola and the shadows that play on the yellow walls of Bagore Ki Haveli Museum have struck the romantic chords of lovers’ bliss in the past and a lonely man’s philosophical pondering. An...
Anna Karenina: Eifman Ballet
To me, ballet is one of those art forms where even if you don’t understand or enjoy it, you can’t help but sit mesmerised at the talent and the outcome. Not pretending to know the first technical thing about ballet, I do happen to love Russian literature. In particular, Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s slightly shorter, albeit...
Review: Billy Elliot at the Victoria Palace Theatre, London
This is a wonderful, electrifying and emotional show, which fully deserves its many accolades and five-star ratings. As a separate interpretation of the 2000 film of the same name, I would highly recommend it as a stand-out story and an experience in its own right. The casting of the leads is excellent, with the...
Interview: Odissi Ensemble
Interview with Katie Ryan – Odissi Ensemble When did you discover Odissi? I was introduced to Odissi by Sanjeevini Dutta who ran an after-school club at my primary school in Bedford. At that time Kadam were a community dance organisation based in Bedford – now they have moved to the Hat Factory in Luton and...
Review: Dance Fragments, 8/12/11
Dance Fragments, 8th December 2011 at The Hat Factory, Luton. The triple bill began with Sarah Levinsky’s Plastic Island, which constructed a landscape of plastic carrier bags centre stage. The piece consisted of four female solos, each entering the stage and interacting with the bags to create different relationships. Each dancer displayed a sense of...
Interview with Rosie Heafford: 2-nd Hand Dance
A quick browse on your website illuminates the vast array of dance work you have created and been involved in – it is hard to believe you are still in your early twenties. How did you do it?! Ha! In one sense I have been lucky – right place, right time – however even...
Friendly Fires @ Brixton Academy
Screw Jagger, I want the moves like Ed MacFarlane. The Friendly Fires frontman can certainly bust a groove; leaping, strutting and jiving around the Brixton Academy stage on Thursday night, MacFarlane’s unique style of ‘sexy-in-an-uncool-way’ bopping was as infectious as his band’s delicious and shiny melodies, bursting unfathomably loud around the Academy like a thick...
