Miles HedleyApr 143 minSUMMER PROGRAMME at Trinity LabanAn amazing array of public performances is on offer in this year’s Trinity Laban summer programme - legendary names in dance, beloved...
Miles HedleyMar 211 minA CHANGE OF SEASON at the National Maritime MuseumWhat a stunning idea to create a concert programme teaming Vivaldi’s joyful Four Seasons with Melting Shifting Liquid World, Hollie...
Miles HedleyFeb 112 minTRINITY LABAN BA3 DANCE SHOWS at LabanDance is a great medium for tackling themes of any magnitude. For example, the range explored in New Choreography Now, a mixed bill...
Miles HedleySep 8, 20212 minNEW SEASON at Trinity Laban + Blackheath HallsAs the world of culture begins tentatively to open up again, Trinity Laban has announced a packed programme of performances to suit every...
Miles HedleyMar 11, 20212 minCOLAB 2021 online at Trinity LabanLockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...
Miles HedleyJul 13, 20203 minPRELUDES TO NEW LIGHTS FESTIVAL Trinity Laban onlineMusic is a global language, a truth that has been underscored by its primacy around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown. And no one...
Miles HedleyMay 15, 20201 minMASS HYSTERIA on Trinity Laban YouTube channelAt what must be one of the weirdest times most of us has ever experienced, all-female dance collective Mass Hysteria have conjured up a...
Miles HedleyMar 1, 20202 minCANDOCO DANCE at LabanLike all great art, dance requires no explanation – it simply demands that we open our hearts and minds to a transcendent experience. And...
Miles HedleyFeb 27, 20204 minCOLAB 2020 in Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford, New Cross and SouthwarkMajor world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...
Miles HedleyFeb 12, 20203 minFEST EN FEST in Greenwich, Deptford and New CrossFest en Fest is a dance event like no other, concerning itself over three days with the evolution of dance in a series of discussions,...
Miles HedleyJan 25, 20202 minAUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban theatre© Andrej Uspenski Life is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes, emotional swings and, ultimately, a realisation that our very uniqueness...
Miles HedleyDec 12, 20192 minCITY OF ANGELS at Laban theatreIt’s impossible to come out of Trinity Laban musical theatre department’s epic production of the Broadway hit City Of Angels without...
Miles HedleyNov 25, 20192 minSUMMIT DANCE THEATRE at LabanProducers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that...
Miles HedleyNov 18, 20192 minROSIE KAY: FANTASIA at LabanArtists are drawn to the darker side of the human condition – for every enigmatic Mona Lisa smile or Ode To Joy there are any number of...
Miles HedleyOct 15, 20192 minDEAF MEN DANCING at Laban A stunning show at Laban theatre by Deaf Men Dancing contained any number of great moments – but the best for me was a simple...
Miles HedleyOct 7, 20192 minAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE at the Albany, Laban and across Lewisham Age Against The Machine, an epic three-week festival across Lewisham promoting creative ageing, reached its triumphant climax on Sunday...
Miles HedleySep 24, 20192 minLONDON INT SCREEN DANCE FESTIVAL at Laban Dance films have to be so much more than just performances captured on film – they have to be cinematic artworks in their own right. And...
Miles HedleyJun 7, 20192 minTRANSITIONS Dance triple bill at Laban If you ever wanted an example of the diversity dance is capable of providing you’d struggle to find a better one than Transitions’ triple...
Miles HedleyApr 2, 20191 minMAPDANCE at Laban Humanity at its most primordial was at the heart of three new works performed with great artistry, wit and menace by the Mapdance company...
Miles HedleyMar 23, 20192 minVELVET PETAL at Laban Meaning only reveals itself slowly in great art. But while you are striving to discover it, you can revel in the beauty of the medium....
Miles HedleyMar 15, 20192 minFOREFATHERS’ EVE_COPY.DOC at Laban One of the themes of Polish Dance Theatre’s extraordinary production Forefathers’ Eve_Copy.Doc is that images more accurately express our...
Miles HedleyFeb 24, 20193 minCOLAB 2019 across south-east London A drag queen outSummering Donna Summer, a Dutch jazz trio jamming with Donald Trump, a Brahms’ hymn and an anti-Brexit rant set to Handel...
Miles HedleyJan 25, 20192 minTHE BALLET OF THE NATIONS at Laban TheatreArthouse films tend to be either great or dreadful with no middle ground, so consciously setting out to make one is a dangerous game. But...
Miles HedleyDec 8, 20182 minCABARET at Laban TheatreA dazzling central performance sent an already great production of the musical Cabaret into artistic orbit at Laban theatre and surely...
Miles HedleyNov 14, 20181 minMARINA COLLARD at Laban TheatreDance, sound, film and light joined forces in choreographer Marina Collard’s existential investigation entitled What This Is, Is… at...
Miles HedleyNov 9, 20182 minTO BE ME - JULIE CUNNINGHAM at Laban TheatreContemporary dance is like abstract expressionist art – both are pure forms of collaboration between creator and viewer. This thought...
Miles HedleyOct 9, 20181 minGRACEFOOL COLLECTIVE at Laban TheatreThis Really Is Too Much risked being exactly that – too much. Part dance, part spoken word, part slapstick, part feminist tract and all...
Miles HedleyJul 17, 20181 minK.R.U.M.P. MACBETH at Laban TheatreKrump is a form of hiphop street dance from LA that features highly stylised moves designed to echo gang violence, so the bloody story of...
Miles HedleyMay 30, 20182 minTRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY at Laban TheatreLife as a progression interrupted by brief encounters and occasional relapses was the theme of a Transitions Dance Company triple bill...
Miles HedleyJan 27, 20181 minWAYNE MCGREGOR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban TheatreWorld-famous choreographer Wayne McGregor has spent 25 years probing the mysteries of the human soul. His new work, Autobiography, takes...