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• On the Dance Beat: Extreme Focus, Extreme Costumes, Extreme Imagination - New York Times

  31-12-2017 12:00 via nytimes.com
  New York Times
  On the Dance Beat: Extreme Focus, Extreme Costumes, Extreme Imagination
  New York Times
  It has become routine to talk about mindfulness, but as a dance writer, I've been putting it into practice for years. That's what you do when you watch a dance. You focus your total awareness on the present. Dance disappears before you know it; writing ...
  
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• 18 for ’18: the talent and trends tipped for the top in 2018

  31-12-2017 10:00
  From girls with attitude on screen to new grime debuts, from Steve McQueen’s return to Tacita Dean’s London takeover, Observer writers on what to look forward to in the coming yearSomething special is happening in UK publishing. After the success of The Good Immigrant (edited by Nikesh Shukla) and titles like Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, there has been a renewed push to rectify the problems of an industry that has too long ignore
  
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• Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella review – still having a ball

  31-12-2017 09:00
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Visual magic outweighs occasional longueurs in this welcome revival of the choreographer/director’s wartime fairytaleMatthew Bourne’s latest revival of Cinderella is an ambitious production, even by the choreographer-director’s own elevated standards. Created in 1997, the piece is set in the London blitz, to a soundtrack which overlays Prokofiev’s famous ballet score with the overhead grumble of Heinkel and Dornier bombers, and the terrifying
  
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