Interview: Donald Hutera curates his first dance festival – dance with risk, intimacy and play
Fiona Campbell
INTERVIEW: Choreographer Siobhan Davies talks ROTOR, the Roundhouse and the evolution of dance
Siobhan Davies is one of the UK’s leading contemporary choreographers. She was a dancer and choreographer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s, before founding her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance in 1988.
Review: NoFit State’s BIANCO at the Roundhouse
REVIEW: Ballet c de la b ‘Gardenia’ at Sadler’s Wells by Fiona Campbell
Alain Platel has never been one to shy away from intimate examinations of the human condition, and Gardenia, his newest choreographic offering, is no exception. Inspired by the film Yo soy asi, which documents the final days of an ailing transvestite club in Barcelona, the company incorporates its signature fusion of contemporary dance, spoken theatre and music.
Resolution! Review by Fiona Campbell
REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella by Fiona Campbell
REVIEW: The Place Prize: Semi-Final 4 and Finalists Announced, by Fiona Campbell
Commonly referred to as the Turner Prize for Dance, The Place Prize sees sixteen choreographic works compete for £35,000. To date, the biennial contemporary dance competition, sponsored by Bloomberg, has enabled the creation of 76 new works with many finalists going on to achieve international acclaim.
Yesterday evening four pieces battled it out for the remaining place in the finals, to be held in April 2011.
REVIEW: Punchdrunk / ENO ‘The Duchess of Malfi’, written by Fiona Campbell
Art Review: William Eggleston Exhibition, Victoria Miro Gallery. Words by Fiona Campbell.
A rubbish filled dumpster, bare tiled bathroom and pornographic posters; these are just a few of the everyday images that feature in Eggleston’s collection of new work 21st Century currently exhibiting at the Victoria Miro gallery. On first glance the photographs project a bleak picture of American Suburbia, yet Egglestons’s trade mark garish colours and penetrating shafts of light illuminate his mundane subjects, transforming them into objects of simple beauty.