Dance & ballet news

• Off-Kilter review – startling look at a life out of order

  20-08-2018 21:00
  Dance Base, Edinburgh
  Ramesh Meyyappan’s solo theatre show explores our daily struggle to hold it all togetherYou know the feeling. The alarm clock goes off and for a few seconds it’s all a blur before you slip into the familiarity of the weekday routine. This solo piece written and performed by Ramesh Meyyappan stretches that fleeting feeling of discombobulation across 45 minutes to ask what happens when you lose the sense of order we impose on our daily lives. Six alarm clocks wake
  
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• Letter: Nadine Baylis was a brilliant and prolific designer for drama

  20-08-2018 18:31
  
  The recent obituary of Nadine Baylis focused mainly on her designs for dance. However, she was also a brilliant and prolific designer for drama. Working originally with Ralph Koltai, she became my resident designer at the Oxford Playhouse company in 1979, just as we created the new thrust stage for the theatre.In that year she designed the Goldoni Villeggiatura Trilogy (translated as The Country Holiday) and continued with King Lear, both of which played in Oxford and on tour. The following year
  
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• Myth, mystery and the tide of change: Jasmin Vardimon's Medusa – in pictures

  20-08-2018 11:00
  In her new show, the choreographer Jasmin Vardimon uses the Greek myth of Medusa to explore womanhood and our ecological future. Tristram Kenton photographed the rehearsals in Sitges Continue reading...
  
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