Dance & ballet news

• Cowpuncher review – dance outlaws wear Vivienne Westwood in wild west

  15-04-2018 13:17
  Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  The fleet-footed outsiders in Holly Blakey’s subversive new piece subvert the cowboy tropeStyled by the Vivienne Westwood studio and throwing shapes to the thrash and shimmer of Mica Levi’s electronic score, the eight cowpunchers of Holly Blakey’s new work look as though they’d be more at home in the pages of Dazed magazine than in the wild west. Blakey has good reason for using Cowpuncher – the not-so-gender-specific variant on “c
  
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• Manon review – touching greatness, three times over

  15-04-2018 08:59
  Royal Opera House, LondonAs vixen, coquette and victim, the Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez all touch greatness in the coveted role of Kenneth MacMillan’s tragic heroineIn the opening scene of Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet Manon, based on Prévost’s 18th-century novel Manon Lescaut, a young woman arrives at an inn in Paris, destined for a convent. Stepping from her coach into the courtyard, Manon is presented with the city&r
  
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