Dance & ballet news

• Lunar Halo review – Sigur Rós soundtrack arresting images and smooth moves

  01-12-2023 15:08
  
  Sadler’s Wells, London
  Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan show extraordinary finesse but the theme of bodies and technology rarely coheres into anything substantialA giant hand reaches down from the roof, as if to grasp a bundle of dancers on the stage; a monumental man descends, body slowly revealed like Naked Attraction, towering over the little people as if a digital god. The video screens in Lunar Halo, the latest work from Cloud Gate, offer up arresting images and the performers are a
  
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• The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more

  01-12-2023 01:01
  
  Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes Here’s Mike Birbiglia’s pitch for his Broadway and West End hit: “I wrote a show about mortality and I guarantee you’ll laugh for 80 minutes straight and sometimes people also feel emotions from it and – trust me – I think you’ll love it.” We did – and it’s now on Netflix. Continue reading
  
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