By Sanjoy Roy Many recent London performances were not strictly recent at all, but rather programs that had been on hold through several waves of COVID restrictions, and revived in the autumn while the going looked good (not before time: a new wave has put the dampers on again). These works emerged into a different
By Deborah Jones The Australian Ballet’s Celebration Gala at the Sydney Opera House was greeted with unbridled enthusiasm by an audience starved for dance. End-of-year Sydney performances of Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet and Ratmansky’s Harlequinade had been cancelled, a big blow to the company following the wipe-out of its earlier programming in Melbourne, where it
By Kaija Pepper Vancouver’s in-theatre fall dance season has begun! The much-missed DanceHouse series took off in late October with a performance at the Playhouse by Victor Quijada’s RUBBERBAND group from Montreal. In Ever So Slightly, featuring 10 super-charged young dancers, Quijada’s mix of street and contemporary dance styles made for a bright, well-paced 75