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Happy as Larry – Oxford Playhouse

Choreographer and director: Shaun Parker Composers: Nick Wales & Bree van Reyk Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Happy as Larry is an exuberant, technically excellent, creative dance show. The Australian company have put together a beautiful show, involving almost every sort of dance you can imagine: ballet, contemporary dance, break dance and hip hop, with a [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011: Eat Your Heart Out, Assembly George Square

Creator: EYHO Reviewer: Jeremy Woodhouse The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Cabaret: the glossy new addition to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe brochure gets a glittery, heeled, gender unregimented friend in EYHO, a collective of performance artists determined to push the boundaries of the genre. With each member being a performer in their own right their Edinburgh show is clearly designed [...]

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ED FRINGE 2011 : In the Dust – Zoo Southside

In the Dust - Ed Fringe

Choreographers: Tom Dale, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Tamsin Fitzgerald Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ It has to be said that it is refreshing to see something on the fringe with such vitality and freshness especially coming from this large all male dance ensemble. Three pieces of dance are combined to make an full hours worth of high octane [...]

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Carlos Acosta:Premieres Plus – The Lowry, Salford

Choreography: Will Tuckett, Miguel Altunaga, Yuri Yanowsky, Russell Maliphant, Kim Brandstrup, Simon Elliott, Edwaard Liang, Carlos Acosta, George Céspedes and Zenaida Yanowsky Conceived and Directed: Carlos Acosta Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★☆☆ Carlos Acosta is one of the leading male dancers of his generation. Having grown up in Cuba, where he studied at the National Ballet [...]

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Strictly Gershwin – Royal Albert Hall, London

Choreographer and Director: Derek Deane Words and Music: George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin Conductor/Music Adaptation: Gareth Valentine Reviewer: Katherine Kirwin The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★½ The cavernous space of the The Royal Albert Hall sparkled with the glitz, glamour and excitement of Broadway and Hollywood last night as the spirit of the era of George and Ira Gerswhin was [...]

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INTERVIEW: Ten Minutes with Alleviate

Latitude Festival is returning to Henham Park this July for its sixth consecutive year. As a renowned Arts festival, Latitude offers an array of entertainment, from a variety of music forms to live theatre performances – not forgetting of course, dance! Appearing as part of the 2011 dance line-up is Got To Dance finalists, Alleviate. [...]

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Verve 2011 – The Lowry, Salford

Artistic Director: Gurmit Hukam Choreography: Thomas Noone, Charles Linehan, Debora Johnson and Ben Wright Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: ★★★★☆ Verve is the postgraduate performance company of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Each year they audition and pick the best of the year’s graduates and take them out on an extensive tour with a repertoire of [...]

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Vienna Festival Ballet’s Cinderella – Worthing Pavillion Theatre

Music: G A Rossini Artistic Director: Peter Mallek Choreographer: Sheila Styles Reviewer: Gina Skillings The Public Reviews Rating: ★½☆☆☆ The Vienna Festival Ballet is a classical ballet company founded in 1980 by Peter Mallek. Based in the United Kingdom, they typically spend 8 months of the year touring small and medium venues around the country, with the occasional foreign [...]

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