Hofesh Schechter Company: In Good Company, London
The dancers in Hofesh Shechter's company are excellent performers but they're also closely involved in the creation of their choreographer's material, and this mixed bill showcases the work of five Shechter dancers as they take on the role of being choreographer themselves. All display an impressive collaborative spirit with other artists. Ma�va Berthelot uses music by Fred Cave in her solo Fifteen Minutes Of Infinity (A Postcard Of The Absolute), which was created with visual artists Jack & Bill Collective to explore the body's reactions to sound, light and smell. Music and sound also influence the body's movement in Jason Jacobs's Yesterday's Bird, a duet for dancer and violinist Andrew Maddick. Sita Ostheimer's Noble Thinking uses an original score by Tony Birch to join the dance styles of Shechter company dancer Hannah Shepherd and Vit Bartak, who performs with Rui Horta and noord nederlandse dans. An evening of experiment and enterprise.
The Place, WC1, Sat
Sol Pic�: El Llac De Les Mosques, London
Sol Pic� is one of Spain's leading contemporary dance makers and has also reached the point where she is beginning to confront her own age. She could be mourning the accumulation of wrinkles and the loss of her youthful glow, but instead Pic� is celebrating her maturity by releasing her inner rock chick. El Llac De Les Mosques (The Lake Of The Flies) is a dance piece structured like a rock concert, with Pic� herself as the "singer" and a live band accompanying the choreography with a mix of blues, flamenco and heavy rock. Deploying a mix of gestural dance and surreal black humour, Pic� and her two male dancers force the audience to share the big issues of ageing ? is it a moment in life to build on the past or an opportunity to throw caution to the wind?
Sadler's Wells, EC1, Thu & Fri
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham
The last programme of Birmingham Royal Ballet's 2010-11 season is a double bill of work by artistic director David Bintley. Allegri Diversi was created back in 1987 close to the beginning of Bintley's choreographic career and it has all the fizzing, exuberance and ambition of a young tyro. Set to Rossini's titular score, it chivvies and inspires its dancers to delicious extremes of virtuosity, extravagantly sustained poses, scintillating footwork and wicked speeds. In a different mode, Carmina Burana follows the scenario of Carl Orff's choral score, following the fortunes of three students as they pursue a life of forbidden pleasures, tasting the delights but also the destructive poison of food, drink and sex.
Birmingham Hippodrome, Wed
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2011/jun/18/this-weeks-new-dance
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