Dance & ballet news

• Nadine Baylis obituary

  05-08-2018 13:42
  Stage designer who set the standard for modern dance costumeNadine Baylis, who has died aged 77, was an internationally recognised designer for the stage who played an influential role in developing the appearance of modern dance production in Britain. She was an austere and stylish designer noted for the spare and sculptural quality of her settings – and became a key figure in establishing painted, dyed and decorated Lycra all-in-one body tights as dance costumes. Some of her early work w
  
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• Stoel review – mischief and musical chairs in dance duo's spellbinding show

  05-08-2018 12:18
  Zoo Southside, Edinburgh
  Ordinary chairs become monsters, vehicles and a perilous walkway in Compagnie Nyash’s remarkable performance for over-threesFifteen junkshop chairs enter the stage: half are pushed on in a rickety procession by one dancer, the others are piled high and given an unwieldy piggyback by her partner. They are precisely placed around the space, creating an obstacle course for the duo, who play games of trust, tenderness and cruelty – with the occasional round of mu
  
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