Dance & ballet news

• Maypole sales are up as May Day celebrations come back into style

  29-04-2018 10:00
  After years of decline, folk dance groups are on the rise and thousands will join the festivities on TuesdayIt is a date that was at the heart of British culture for centuries: May Day, the moment when spring enters full bloom and summer is a-coming in.Now, after a long decline in interest, traditional May Day activities are experiencing their own rebirth. Sales of maypoles are growing and the number of morris dancing teams is also on the rise, with crowds attending May Day festivals of a size n
  
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• Toro: Beauty and the Bull review – taking gender identity by the horns

  29-04-2018 09:00
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Carlos Pons Guerra’s unflinching reimagining of Beauty and the Beast could hardly be more timelyIn the six years since he founded the UK-based DeNada Dance Theatre, Carlos Pons Guerra has achieved an enviable reputation as a choreographer. Works such as Ham and Passion (2015) combine lacerating social comment with outrageous showmanship. Pons Guerra’s targets are the repressive institutions of the Hispanic culture in which he grew up, and in which, a
  
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