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Breakin’ Convention: Social DisDancing, Sadler’s Wells, review: meet our future Olympic champions
Following the recent announcement that breakdancing is joining the Olympics in 2024, all eyes are on productions like Social DisDancing. Is this a world-class discipline? And will it, as hoped, attract a youthful demographic? Read my full Telegraph review here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged boy blue, breakdancing, breakin convention, breaking, dancing, jonzi d, olympic, olympics, review, sadlers wells, Social DisDancing, telegraph, theatre
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‘A phenomenon for decades’: should the Arts Council fund breakdancing?
It has been announced this week that breakdancing will joining the Olympics, making its competitive debut at the 2024 Paris Games – and bringing this popular dance form global attention. Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Dance, Theatre
Tagged b-boy, breakdancing, breakin convention, breaking, dance, dancing, interview, jonzi d, olympics, telegraph
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Manon and Dream
The Royal Ballet’s Sarah Lamb superbly conveys Manon’s knotty psychology in Kenneth MacMillan’s passionate production, while the National Dance Company Wales share Christopher Bruce’s sporting Dream to mark what would have been the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Read my … Continue reading
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Tagged christopher bruce, dance, dancing, digital, dream, free, kenneth macmillan, manon, marquee tv, National Dance Company Wales, olympics, online, royal ballet, sarah lamb, sport, the i paper, tokyo, watch
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Strictly Speaking: Week 1
And we’re off! Another series of ringer debates, capricious scoring and Great British Triers, the latter group represented this year by, well, pretty much just Ed Balls. Is the 2016 crop a bit too good too soon? I did some highly … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Journalism, TV
Tagged ballroom, bbc, blog, cha cha, claudia fragapane, daisy lowe, dance, dancing, dancing times, danny mac, ed balls, greg rutherford, jive, judge rinder, louise redknapp, olympics, recap, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, strictly speaking, tango, tv, waltz, week 1, will young
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BWW Interview: Robin Windsor
The dancer talks Strictly, choreographing and new tour Keep Dancing. Read my full BroadwayWorld interview here
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Tagged Aliona Vilani, anya garnis, ballroom, bbc, broadwayworld, burn the floor, contemporary, daisy lowe, dance, dancing, dave arch, emma jones, harry judd, hip hop, interview, jay mcguiness, keep dancing, latin, lisa riley, louis smith, louise redknapp, mgm, olympics, paso doble, puttin on the ritz, robin windsor, rumba, same sex dance, saturday night, scd, show, strictly, strictly come dancing, Tameka Empson, theatre, tour, tv, west end
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Strictly Speaking: Launch show
Sci-fi nonsense, ringer protestations and Ed “Glitter” Balls: our introduction to the class of 2016. Read my full Dancing Times blog here
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Tagged 2016, ballroom, bbc, blog, celebrity, claudia fragapane, claudia winkleman, daisy lowe, dance, dancing, dancing times, danny mac, ed balls, greg rutherford, judges, kevin clifton, latin, laura whitmore, len goodman, louise redknapp, olympics, ore oduba, professional, recap, review, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, Tameka Empson, tess daly, tv, will young
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Housing, cycling and movies for your ears
Highlights of my November MoveTo Town and Country Arts page: Pick of the month: Crisis management New London Architecture’s competition winners propose solutions for London’s affordable housing shortage Don’t miss: Two wheels good The Design Museum celebrates the cycling boom with a new exhibition … Continue reading
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Tagged affordable housing, art, audio, bike, biography, book, boris bikes, bradley wiggins, buy, chris hoy, commute, commuter, competition, cycling, design museum, exhibition, generation rent, house, housing, housing crisis, housing shortage, jonathan bate, live, london, london 2012, mayor of london, moveto, moveto town and country, new london architecture, nla, olympics, peter murray, podcast, property, read, sell, story, team sky, ted hughes, the truth, tour de france, winner
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Ballroom’s new special relationship and same-sex dance at Blackpool
My articles in the August issue of Dance Today, out now: Shall we dance? American franchise Fred Astaire Studios has found its first British affiliate – will others follow suit? Stepping Out Top same-sex dancers hit Blackpool for the European Championships Bustin’ out all over The Arcola’s … Continue reading
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Tagged arlene phillips, ballroom, blackpool, breakin, burn the floor, championships, circus, competition, dance, dancing, edinburgh, edinburgh festival, edinburgh fringe, empress ballroom, flamenco, fred astaire, fred astaire studios, gay pride, hip hop, in the heights, latin, london 2012, musical, norwich, olympics, review, same sex ballroom, same sex dance, southwark playhouse, teacher, theatre
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Edinburgh, Teacher of the Year and Is That Allowed?!
My articles in the July issue of Dance Today, out now: Fringe benefits From sexy samba and surreal circus to comic tapping, the dance highlights of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Hip hop hooray Dance Today Teacher of the Year T. Damien Anyasi talks London Olympics and breakin’ boundaries Latin scorcher In … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, ballroom, circus, competition, dance, dance hold, dancing, Darren Bennett, edinburgh, festival, france, fringe, gay pride, in the heights, Lilia Kopylova, london, musical, norwich, olympics, paris, peter tatchell, review, richmond theatre, same sex dance, seven brides for seven brothers, southwark playhouse, strictly, strictly come dancing, teacher, teacher of the year, theatre, theatre royal, winner
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Fire and ice
It started so well. Blessed with the presence of Britain’s most famous (read: only) Olympic ice dancing champions and unbeatable concept of “celebrities” (read: retired athletes, some bloke off Hollyoaks and Chico) emoting to Eighties power ballads while wobbling round … Continue reading
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Tagged bolero, dance, dance today, dancing, dancing on ice, eurovision, gold medal, ice dancing, ice skating, itv, london, olympics, ray quinn, review, torvill and dean, tour, wembley arena
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