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Vanishing pointe: where are all the great female choreographers?
The dance scene is booming right now. So why are male choreographers getting all the attention?Dance has always been seen as the one art form where women weren't just more visible than men, but were...
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The 10 best dancers
From ballet to contemporary, dance is enjoying a real upsurge. But for poise, power and poignancy, who has the best moves?Vaslav NijinskyBorn in 1890, Nijinsky trained at the Imperial Ballet School in...
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Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern
Why are 78 members of the public dancing around Tate's Turbine Hall? Anarchic choreographer Michael Clark explains to Andrew DicksonIn the 29 years since its oil-fired generators shuddered to a final...
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The best performance I've ever seen: Bunny Christie
I Am Curious, Orange by Michael Clark Company, Sadler's Wells, London, 1988I take every opportunity to see Michael Clark dance, but his performance in I Am Curious, Orange stands out in my memory....
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This week's new dance
Nats Nus Dansa: Momentari, LondonChildren's dance-theatre is emerging as one of the more interesting new genres, moving a long way from the staple fare of the Nutcracker and the Snowman. In Spain, Nats...
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Michael Clark Company – review
Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark's latest work was created for the vaulting industrial space of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is a venue that can easily swallow up a choreographer (hence the joke of...
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Michael Clark Company – review
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, and pin-up boy of the 1980s Blitz kids, is 50 next year. And while his work continues to develop and refine within the...
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Shake the room: how architecture is inspiring dance
Europe's churches have inspired a new dance piece by Shobana Jeyasingh. Judith Mackrell meets her on the first stop of her tour in Venice, and looks at how architecture is inspiring...
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Michael Clark Company: The Barrowlands Project – review
Barrowland Ballroom, GlasgowA decade ago, who would have predicted that the uniquely wayward Michael Clark would become one of Britain's most reliably pleasurable choreographers? Fierce contemporary...
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As part of the London 2012 celebrations in Scotland, choreographer Michael Clark created a new work to celebrate the Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom. Watch the performance here
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Michael Clark Company – review
Barbican, LondonDoes it matter that Michael Clark's latest work has no real title? Probably not, as his choreography tends to be one long work in progress. This latest piece, with music by Scritti...
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Against 'good reads'
The passive value attached to straightforward storytelling obscures the wider possibilities of more adventurous writingMichael Clark's latest dance presentation at the Barbican is a visceral reminder...
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Michael Clark Company – review
Barbican, London EC2In 1984, Michael Clark appeared in a video for Scritti Politti's single Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin). It was a happy alliance, the 22-year-old Clark's jazzy leaps and turns...
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The Rest is Noise festival: what's your favourite piece of 20th-century music?
In anticipation of the Southbank Centre's year-long The Rest is Noise festival, conductors, musicians and artists share their favourite classical works from a century of musical turbulenceMarin Alsop,...
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The Rite of Spring at Sadler's Wells: 'It takes you to so many places'
Nijinsky set it in tunics, Pina Bausch as a brutal battle of the sexes – so just how do you dance to Stravinsky's most violent score? Judith Mackrell talks to Akram Khan, Javier de Frutos and other...
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Michael Clark steps it up at Tate Modern
Why are 78 members of the public dancing around Tate's Turbine Hall? Anarchic choreographer Michael Clark explains to Andrew DicksonIn the 29 years since its oil-fired generators shuddered to a final...
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The best performance I've ever seen: Bunny Christie
I Am Curious, Orange by Michael Clark Company, Sadler's Wells, London, 1988I take every opportunity to see Michael Clark dance, but his performance in I Am Curious, Orange stands out in my memory....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This week's new dance
Nats Nus Dansa: Momentari, LondonChildren's dance-theatre is emerging as one of the more interesting new genres, moving a long way from the staple fare of the Nutcracker and the Snowman. In Spain, Nats...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michael Clark Company – review
Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark's latest work was created for the vaulting industrial space of Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. It is a venue that can easily swallow up a choreographer (hence the joke of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Michael Clark Company – review
Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, LondonMichael Clark, choreographer, ex-heroin addict, and pin-up boy of the 1980s Blitz kids, is 50 next year. And while his work continues to develop and refine within the...
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