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The Thread, Sadler’s Wells Online
The latest Sadler’s Wells digital offering is 2019’s The Thread, a luminous collaboration between choreographer Russell Maliphant and Oscar-winning composer Vangelis (Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner) for the Athens-based production company Lavris. It’s a striking, contemporary take on Greek folk dance and classical mythology, with a series of … Continue reading
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Tagged contemporary dance, dance, dancing, digital, facebook, folk, free, greece, greek, online, russell maliphant, sadlers wells, stream, the thread, vangelis, youtube
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Rumpelstiltskin, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage
The latest in Sadler’s Wells’ Digital Stage programme – an impressively assembled online offering to keep audiences entertained during the shutdown – is balletLORENT’s family-friendly dance-theatre production Rumpelstiltskin. It was streamed as a “matinee” on Friday afternoon, and is available to watch for free on Sadler’s Wells’ Facebook … Continue reading
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Tagged ballet, balletlorent, brothers grimm, carol ann duffy, children, contemporary dance, dance, dancing, digital, facebook, fairy tale, family, free, kids, live stream, online, review, rumpelstiltskin, sadlers wells, spinning wheel, streaming, theartsdesk, theatre, young audience, youtube
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Dear Evan Hansen, Noël Coward Theatre
Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek and Justin Paul’s Tony and Grammy Award-winning musical Dear Evan Hansen is an institution in the States, running on Broadway since 2016 and currently on its second year of a national tour. It also made a star of original leading … Continue reading
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Tagged ben platt, benj pasek, book tickets, broadway, dear evan hansen, death, depression, evan hansen, facebook, internet, justin paul, kickstarter, lauren ward, london, memorial, mental health, musical, rebecca mckinnis, review, sam tutty, school, social media, suicide, teenager, theartsdesk, viral, west end
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Blind Date, Jermyn Street Theatre
Dating in the internet age is rife with complications, and yet Dave Simpson’s amiable romcom manages to eschew nearly all of them. Bar its online matchmaking set-up, this is a chaste, big-hearted time capsule of a play, with nary a … Continue reading
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Tagged blind date, catastrophe, coronation street, date, dates, dating, drama, facebook, internet, jb shorts, jermyn street theatre, london, love, man city, manchester, marriage, online dating, play, review, richard curtis, romance, sex, snapchat, strictly come dancing, susan mcardle, television, the arts desk, the nether, theartsdesk, theatre, tinder, tv, twitter, will travis
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Strictly Speaking: Week 2
Week 2 of Strictly, and the judges have already taken leave of their senses. It’s going to be a long series. The second performance show – the one which leads to an elimination, and in which, therefore, the scoring is … Continue reading
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Tagged ballroom, baywatch, bbc, blog, charleston, claudia winkleman, dance, dance today, dancing, disney, elimination, facebook, film, frozen, gone girl, great british bake off, gregg wallace, happy days, jake wood, jennifer gibney, judge, judy murray, latin, let it go, m and s, miss america, movie, one direction, recap, review, rock n roll, salsa, scd, score, scott mills, so you think you can dance, spice girls, strictly, strictly come dancing, tess daly, tv, ukip
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Swimming pool tale unafraid to tackle horror in deep end
A kiss is an innocent thing. So claims Brandon, the swimming coach accused of inappropriate contact, but in Josep Maria Miró i Coromina’s unsettling Archimedes’ Principle at Park Theatre, innocence is constantly reframed by context. Are we more likely to … Continue reading
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Tagged archimedes, archimedes principle, catalan, child, cps, drama, facebook, finsbury park, islington, islington gazette, jimmy savile, Josep Maria Miro i Coromina, law, legal, london, nigel evans, north london, paedophile, parent, park theatre, Pedophilia, play, Premi Born de Teatre, rape, review, social media, spain, swimming, theatre, twitter
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Which dance is your romance?
Is your relationship a dreamy, old-fashioned ballroom style or a raunchy red-hot Latin? Find out by taking the Dance Today Valentine’s Day quiz!
Posted in Dance, Journalism
Tagged ballroom, boyfriend, dance, dancing, date, facebook, february 14, flash mob, gift, girlfriend, husband, latin, love, marriage, party, present, romance, song, valentine, valentines day, wife
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The real silent majority can take back Twitter
At first, the reaction was muted. Stalling from Twitter. Stalling from the police. And, perhaps most worryingly, a stream of patronising comments from onlookers. ‘Just ignore it.’ ‘If you can’t take the heat, get off Twitter!’ ‘What did you expect?’ … Continue reading
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Tagged #takebacktwitter, caroline criado-perez, facebook, leveson, mary beard, social media, stella creasy, take back twitter, trolling, trolls, twitter
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