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Michael Ball and more on Aspects of Love
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s bed-hopping musical is back – albeit updated for our times. Does it still have the power to shock? Read my full Telegraph article here
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged andrew lloyd webber, aspects of love, book tickets, broadway, cast, danielle de niese, interview, Jamie Bogyo, jonathan kent, laura pitt-pulford, london, love, love changes everything, lyric theatre, michael ball, musical, nica burns, preview, sex, taboo, telegraph, theatre, west end
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Preview of The Last Five Years
A musical featuring two people physically separated throughout? Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years could be made for lockdown – as a new digital production aims to prove. Actors Lauren Samuels and Danny Becker, who play doomed lovers Cathy … Continue reading
Shobana Jeyasingh Dance: Configurations
Acclaimed contemporary company Shobana Jeyasingh Dance are now sharing work online, kicking off with their seminal 1988 Configurations. Reworked in 2012, it’s a ground-breaking collaboration between Jeyasingh and composer Michael Nyman. Read my full The i Paper top pick here
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Tagged asian, Bharata Natyam, Configurations, contemporary dance, dance, dancing, digital, free, india, indian, michael nyman, online, preview, review, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, stream, the i paper, top pick, watch
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Stepping Out
Marianka Swain looks back on a busy year and previews 2016 Same-sex dance made headlines again in 2015 with the Strictly debate, but the real news was on the dancefloor, with improvements in outreach and visibility leading to exciting competitions … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Theatre
Tagged 2015, 2016, ballroom, bbc, berlin, blackpool, competition, dance, dancing, dancing times, eurogames, gay, germany, helsinki, latin, lesbian, london, magazine, music, pink jukebox, pop, preview, same sex, same sex ballroom, same sex dancing, scd, stockholm, strictly, strictly come dancing, tv, video
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Pick of the Week
It’s the best of the festivals this week on theartsdesk, with reports from Glastonbury, Hyde Park and Vortex Jazz Club, plus Rob Delaney, the Welsh in Patagonia and David Suchet’s Lady Bracknell. Read my full newsletter here
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Tagged apple, catastrophe, comedy, concert, david suchet, drama, festival, freedom festival, glastonbury, grammy, improvisation, interview, jazz, kafka, lady bracknell, london, met office, music, national theatre wales, newsletter, opera, oscar wilde, patagonia, pick of the week, play, poirot, pop, preview, review, rob delaney, robert glasper, rock, rory kinner, rossini, royal opera house, taylor swift, the arts desk, the importance of being earnest, the trial, the who, theartsdesk, theatre, vortex jazz club, wales, weather, welsh, west end, young vic
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Sentiment snowdrift, Strictly surprises and 2015 preview
My articles in the January issue of Dance Today, out now: Snowed under The saccharine sentiment of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas at the Dominion Theatre is downright suffocating Strictly surprises Following another series of Strictly celebrities being saddled with the “dark horse” mantle, my top five genuinely surprising contestants Stepping … Continue reading
Posted in Dance, Film, Journalism, Theatre, TV
Tagged adelphi theatre, ballroom, book, broadway, cats, celebrity, competition, damn yankees, dance, dance today, dancing, dark horse, dominion theatre, film, gillian lynne, hollywood, irving berlin, landor theatre, latin, london, made in dagenham, magazine, movie, movie musical, musical, preview, review, salsa, same sex ballroom, scd, strictly, strictly come dancing, west end, white christmas
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