Dance & ballet news

• Passion review – Pascal Dusapin's haunting retelling of the Orpheus legend

  15-10-2018 11:22
  The Anvil, Basingstoke
  A central pair give stunningly emotional turns in this hypnotic and erotically charged reworking of Monteverdi’s operasThe first of Pascal Dusapin’s operas to be performed in the UK, Passion was written 10 years ago to a commission from the Aix-en-Provence festival for a work that would take Monteverdi’s operas as its principal frame of reference. Dusapin’s starting point was the Orpheus legend, the subject not only of Monteverdi’s first extan
  
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• 'The body lights up': stroke survivors find their footing through dance

  15-10-2018 07:00
  After fresh and funny takes on Shakespeare and Paradise Lost, Ben Duke brings together five people who have had a stroke to tell their stories – and help them reconnect with their bodies
  It was around four in the morning when Pauline Boye woke up and realised she couldn’t move. “I was unable to get up,” she remembers. “I called to my partner, ‘Can you help me? I can’t get up!’”Boye, who was 47, had suffered a stroke. She spent four months in
  
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