by Emilia & Linda on September 26, 2011
If you are in London this autumn, you should plan a visit to Degas and the Ballet: Picturing Movement currently on display at the Royal Academy. This wonderful exhibition, curated by Richard Kendall, Jill DeVonyar and Ann Dumas, focuses on the Impressionist painter and sculptor Edgar Degas’s interest in movement and his dedication to classical [...]
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by Emilia & Linda on September 23, 2011
World Premiere at the Peacock Theatre Award-winning dance company ZooNation presents Some Like it Hip Hop at The Peacock Theatre from 20 October to 19 November, following their critically acclaimed 2006 production, Into the Hoods, which became the longest running dance show in the West End. Some Like it Hip Hop is a comical tale [...]
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ZooNation Dance Company
by Emilia & Linda on September 16, 2011
by Emilia & Linda on September 13, 2011
If you are in town this Saturday 17 September, we would love to see you at University College London. As part of The London Design Festival 2011, our friends at Sojournposse will be hosting the seminar “Whatever Is to Become of Books?” and we are one of the guest speakers. More information: Five Minutes With: [...]
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Story of Books,
talks,
UCL
by Emilia & Linda on September 8, 2011
In her newest book, RENÉ BLUM AND THE BALLETS RUSSES: In Search of a Lost Life, dance historian Judith Chazin-Bennahum looks at the tragic story of the theatre producer who was responsible for resurrecting the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo after his friend Sergei Diaghilev’s death, but who was arrested in 1941 during a roundup [...]
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Igor Youskevitch,
Judith Chazin-Bennahum,
L’Épreuve d’Amour,
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Mikhail Fokine,
Nijinska,
René Blum,
Vera Nemtchinova
by Emilia & Linda on September 1, 2011
European summer is almost over (although here in Britain it never really began) and ballet companies around the world are getting ready to kick off their new seasons. The Royal Ballet is set to return to Covent Garden in a few weeks with Balanchine’s Jewels. Taking inspiration from one of our favorite magazines, Wired, we [...]
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Wayne McGregor
