Dance & ballet news

• Nora Invites review – dance double act reveal a taste for risk

  29-11-2015 13:59
  
  Lilian Baylis Studio, London
  The flawed batch of new works brings out chameleon talents and by the end you’re curious about what they’ll do nextEleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley are a dance double act called Nora. By the end of their show, we find out they are intellectually curious, funny and rude, possessed of chameleon stage talents and a taste for risk. But the evening is also a slow burner, and it takes a while for these qualities to emerge. In Eleanor and Flora Music,
  
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• Swan Lake II: Dark Waters review – sidetracked by the camp and trivial

  29-11-2015 09:00
  
  Chelsea theatre, London
  Joseph Mercier reimagines Swan Lake as one man’s struggle with the (naked) self. And a very dead birdThe reworking of classical ballets by contemporary choreographers is a well-established practice. At English National Ballet, Akram Khan is creating a production of Giselle that will infuse the 19th-century piece with new music, dance and story elements. Matthew Bourne’s reimagined Sleeping Beauty is currently touring. But of all the great ballets, Swan Lake is
  
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