REVIEW: UNKNOWN PLEASURES: CNN – Ballet De Lorraine (Sadlers Wells) ★★★
For anyone who has been waiting for a fairer and more realistic representation of female choreographers, I have good news and bad news: First: this Dance Umbrella performance comprises five pieces created by one man and four (four!) women. However they are all anonymous. Maybe that’s some sort of progress. The intention is admirable; we’re […]
REVIEW: INTO THE HOODS: REMIXED (The Peacock Theatre)
First things first — don’t be fooled by the title. Into the Hoods: Remixed may remind you of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, but ZooNation have ‘remixed’ the story for a modern, younger audience. Perhaps modernised it too much. Telling the story of two lost children, representing the Baker and his wife, they find themselves in […]