Dance & ballet news

• Soho’s new home for cabaret is so slick it’s like countercultural cosplay | Brian Logan

  20-11-2023 17:47
  
  The opening shows at London’s Underbelly Boulevard – Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett and Batsu! – are less edgy than you might expect, and more pricey, but there are some impressive turnsIt was one of the birthplaces of alternative comedy. Then it was a sleek new theatre poleaxed by Covid. And, as a long-time sister venue to one-time fleshpot Raymond’s Revuebar, it enjoys a decades-long association with Soho’s seedier nighttime activities.That looked like what I
  
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• Dancefloor disaster: Ayelen Parolin masters the choreography of comedy

  20-11-2023 15:37
  
  The show must go on for the trio of hapless performers in Parolin’s new production Zonder, which finds the funny side in failureContemporary dance and comedy don’t exactly go hand in hand but Ayelen Parolin is a choreographer with funny bones. In her new production, Zonder, three dancers try to waltz their way through Strauss’s Blue Danube but end up all at sea. None of the trio can keep in time and they’re desperate to outdo each other. One puts a foot through the stage;
  
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