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‘This is how loss feels’: how a Netflix animation about grief became a global phenomenon
One of the year’s most unlikely phenomena on the video-sharing app TikTok saw 50 million people – and counting – recording themselves crying while watching a 12-minute animation. Not since the heart-wrenching opening sequence of Up have viewers been so undone … Continue reading
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Tagged animated, animation, director, film, grief, If Anything Happens I Love You, interview, loss, Michael Govier, movie, netflix, oscar, school shooting, short film, telegraph, tiktok, Will McCormack, writer
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Jazz roots
Zak Nemorin discusses his enlightening new documentary, which explores the true origins of jazz dance. Read my full Dancing Times article here
Posted in Dance, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged bob fosse, dance, dancing, dancing times, documentary, film, history, interview, jazz, jazz dance, jazz dancing, musical, origin, race, roots, stage, tv, zak nemorin
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‘Diana was a cat – a pampered, domesticated cat’: how Emma Corrin learnt to move like a princess
Who links Freddie Mercury, Elvis, Princess Diana and Bond’s latest nemesis? The in-demand movement director Polly Bennett, who helped Rami Malek to an Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody, and is a key member of The Crown’s creative team. Read my full Telegraph interview here
Posted in Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged bohemian rhapsody, elvis, emma corrin, film, gillian anderson, interview, james bond, josh o'connor, margaret thatcher, movement director, movie, netflix, no time to die, polly bennett, prince charles, princess diana, queen, rami malek, telegraph, the crown, the queen, the royal family, tv
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Strictly’s Movie Week: don’t bet against sharpshooter Bill Bailey being the last celebrity standing
Strictly’s messy Movie Week saw dances engulfed by themes – none more so than Jason Bell’s Death Star of a paso doble. In space, no one can hear you “Olé!”. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ballroom, bbc, bill bailey, celebrity, competition, dance, dancing, dreamgirls, film, grease, jason bell, judges, latin, movie, movie week, nicola adams, ranvir singh, recap, review, scd, scoring, star wars, strictly, strictly come dancing, technique, telegraph, the good the bad and the ugly, tv
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Draw From Within, Rambert Online
As we’re still awaiting the go-ahead for full audiences back in theatres, this Rambert world premiere is streamed, but performed – and watched – live. And though we’ve had many gems from the archive lately, it is particularly thrilling to … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism
Tagged coronavirus, covid, dance, dance from within, dancing, digital, film, online, rambert, review, south bank, ted hughes, the i paper, Wim Vandekeybus
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Sleepless, Seacole and Nightingale
A socially distanced musical, and a multidisciplinary documentary about carers past and present. Read my The i Paper reviews here
Posted in Fiction, Film, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged coronavirus, covid, crimean war, dance, dancing, digital, doctor, documentary, eliot smith, film, florence nightingale, free, jay mcguiness, kimberley walsh, mary seacole, musical, nhs, nurse, nursing, online, review, seacole and nightingale, sleepless, sleepless and seattle, streaming, the i paper, theatre, troubadour wembley park, watch
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Sleepless, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
Originally due to premiere back in March, Sleepless – a musical version of the winning 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle – now acts as a test case for the return of fully staged but socially distanced indoor theatre, AKA Stage 4 of the Government’s “roadmap”. Though a … Continue reading
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Tagged adaptation, an affair to remember, coronavirus, covid 19, empire state building, film, girls aloud, jay mcguiness, kimberley walsh, london, love, meg ryan, movie, musical, nora ephron, review, romance, singing, sleepless, sleepless in seattle, social distancing, socially distanced, strictly come dancing, the wanted, theartsdesk, theatre, tom hanks, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre
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Where to watch celebrities onstage
From Andrew Scott in the Old Vic’s Three Kings to Sleepless‘s pop star leads and a host of luminaries in Talking Heads. Read my full London Theatre article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged actor, actress, alan bennett, albion, almeida, andrew scott, beat the devil, bridge theatre, celebrities, celebrity, coronavirus, daisy edgar-jones, David Hare, death of england, everybodys talking about jamie, famous, film, fleabag, giles terera, hair, hamilton, harry potter, hollywood, imelda staunton, jay mcguiness, kimberley walsh, kristin scott thomas, layton williams, leslie manville, london, movie, musical, national theatre, nhs, no masks, normal people, old vic, on stage, play, ralph fiennes, russell tovey, sherlock, sleepless, star, stars, strictly come dancing, talking heads, tamsin greig, the crown, theatre, theatre royal stratford east, three kings, troubadour wembley park, turbine theatre, tv
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