Richard Alston Dance Company: An Italian in Madrid, Burning, Nomadic Pauline Flannery 12/05/2016 The eclectic music mix spans Romany singing with urban hip-hop, the frenetic patterning of Listz’s Dante Sonata and the delicate, intricacy of eightee...
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch — „…como el musguito en la piedra, ay si, si, si…“ Pauline Flannery 13/02/2016 It is nearly seven years since the death of Pina Bausch. Yet the founder choreographer of the Tanztheater Wuppertal in her last work ‘Como el Musguito...
Christian Rizzo — d’après une histoire vraie Pauline Flannery 18/11/2015 This is an explosive piece with a slow burn. Initially strewn in recognisable folk-dance steps – pounding heel-toe action – the last third builds to a...
Caroline Bowditch — Falling in Love with Frida Pauline Flannery 07/10/2015 Falling in Love with Frida is an hour redolent in intimacies. Invoking the spirit of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, performance artist Caroline Bowditch ...
The Playboy of the Western World Pauline Flannery 17/08/2015 The ‘playboy riots’ stormed Dublin in 1907. In the States the play was greeted with boos and the stench of hurled vegetables. In Philadelphia the comp...
Akram Khan & Israel Galván — Torobaka Pauline Flannery 03/07/2015 Torobaka – ‘bull cow’ – taken from the Maori-Inspired poem by Dadaist Tristan Zsara is a stunning, seemingly improvisational composition of Kathak and...
Philippe Decouflé Company DCA — Contact Pauline Flannery 18/06/2015 There’s a maverick, holy fool who works in director/choreographer Philippe Decoufle. He draws on so many cultural references - the Marx Brothers, Tex ...
Object of My Affection Pauline Flannery 29/04/2014 Artistic Director David Murley follows Tamara Rojo’s lead with The Object of My Affection. The title is a neat pun and the first time that MurleyDance...
