Dance & ballet news

• Canada’s ballet world rocked by abuse scandal spanning 30 years

  01-09-2018 16:02
  A Royal Winnipeg Ballet teacher is accused of pressuring teenager pupils into naked photoshootsFrom a small dance company on the prairies of Canada it grew into one of the country’s most prestigious cultural institutions – gaining international prominence as the first ballet in the Commonwealth to receive the royal charter from the Queen.Now, however, the spotlight is on the Royal Winnipeg Ballet for other reasons, after an Ontario court gave the go-ahead to a class-action lawsuit al
  
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• Underground review – method in madness

  01-09-2018 08:00
  Somerset House, London
  Hofesh Shechter’s dancers loom like Bedlam inmates out of the darkness. Blink nervously and they’re goneAs a choreographer, Hofesh Shechter has a facility for reinvention. Certain things are always there in his work – the pulsing rhythms (Shechter composes his own scores), the folk references, the flailing, loose-jointed ensemble dances – but each production sees these elements shaped to very different ends.Shechter’s work is essentially fatal
  
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