Dance & ballet news

• Chahine Yavroyan obituary

  07-11-2018 18:31
  Innovative lighting designer who ushered in a new era of stage drama settingWhen Chahine Yavroyan, who has died of cancer aged 68, arrived in London in the early 1970s, theatrical lighting was almost an afterthought: it was normally flat, white and frontal. Chahine’s innovative use of side-lights, minimalist rigs and unusual colour schemes ushered in a new era of poetic lighting for stage drama and helped to establish it as an art – and a profession – in its own right.His love
  
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• Rambert: Two review – spiky, sassy dancers seize the stage

  07-11-2018 12:12
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Rambert showcases its new sister company in Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar’s knockout Killer Pig, plus work by Benoit Swan Pouffer and Rafael BonachelaEight hundred young dancers from around the world applied to join Rambert2, the new sister company of the long-established Rambert. Tonight, we meet the chosen 13, dancing three works alongside one performed by the main company.The dancers as impressive as you would imagine, with technical chops and a measure of attit
  
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• Misty Copeland: the trailblazing ballerina loved by Prince, Obama and Disney

  07-11-2018 07:00
  She thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy‘Ballet was definitely my escape,” says Misty Copeland. “It was the first thing I’d ever experienced in my life that was mine – only mine, not my five other siblings’. It gave me a voice, made me feel powerful.”When Copeland discovered ballet she was 13, living with her mother and siblings in a
  
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• Misty Copeland: the trail-blazing ballerina loved by Prince, Obama and Disney

  07-11-2018 07:00
  She thinks ballet’s broken – and has a plan to fix it. The star of Disney’s Nutcracker reboot talks about racism, nude shoes and growing up bendy‘Ballet was definitely my escape,” says Misty Copeland. “It was the first thing I’d ever experienced in my life that was mine – only mine, not my five other siblings’. It gave me a voice, made me feel powerful.”When Copeland discovered ballet she was 13, living with her mother and siblings in a
  
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