I say not-review because I don't feel qualified to pass judgement on shows like this. My birthday present to my sister for this year, it was pretty much by chance I stumbled upon Soap at the Riverside Studios but it looked like exactly penny_p's sort of thing: One of those dance/acrobatics/circus skills shows she loves, and I have to say it's by far the ( Read more... )

Tamsin Oglesby's new black comedy at the National is about the ageing population, and seems to take place at some point in the near future. The stage is split, and above we have "policy official" Monroe (Paul Ritter) and his team coming up with ways of dealing with the ageing population: From slow- and fast-lanes on pavements to drug trials for ( Read more... )

When we went to see Edward Scissorhands for my sister's Christmas present, Penny saw the publicity for Traces and was keen to go, especially seeing it was by a Canadian circus/dance company and having visions of Cirque du Soleil. As it happens it's at the Peacock so once again the GILT offer came in handy, with £15 for decent stalls seats. So we ( Read more... )

As ever, I'm not calling this a review 'cause dance isn't a field I'm qualified to pass judgement on. Although I do pass judgement on the hotness of hot guys, but a Matthew Bourne ballet that wasn't well stocked in that department would be a freakish oddity, so you could have guessed in advance how that would go ( Read more... )

Matthew Bourne does like having his name in the title, doesn't he? At least this one doesn't have an exclamation mark as well, like Matthew Bourne's Nutcracker! The three regulars here will know I don't consider myself even remotely qualified to review dance - I guess one reason is, when they're telling a story through dance, there's times when I ( Read more... )

Despite so much of this blog being taken up with pictures of cute guys I fancy, I've somehow never got round to mentioning Robert Hoffman, the actor, dancer and prolific YouTube poster.


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As I've said before I don't really feel qualified to review dance shows 'cause I don't know much about the medium and rarely go. I only went to Insane in the Brain because quite frankly an adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest through the medium of bungee-jumping breakdance sounds too deranged to miss ( Read more... )

I'm not going to call this a review because I wouldn't know where to start actually reviewing a ballet. This is only the third one I've ever been to, and all of them have been directed/choreographed by Matthew Bourne, so I'm hardly the expert. Although I might go back next year to see Insane in the Brain, "a street-dance version of One Flew Over ( Read more... )