FEST EN FEST in Deptford
Great art thrives within the constraints of convention. But great art – whether words, dance, image or music - can also soar into the...
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Miles Hedley
- Aug 3
- 2 min
END-OF-YEAR DANCE SHOWS at Trinity Laban
The tropical heat outside may have been close to unbearable but inside the wonderfully air-conditioned Laban building the only heat was...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 14
- 3 min
SUMMER PROGRAMME at Trinity Laban
An amazing array of public performances is on offer in this year’s Trinity Laban summer programme - legendary names in dance, beloved...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 21
- 1 min
A CHANGE OF SEASON at the National Maritime Museum
What a stunning idea to create a concert programme teaming Vivaldi’s joyful Four Seasons with Melting Shifting Liquid World, Hollie...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 11
- 2 min
TRINITY LABAN BA3 DANCE SHOWS at Laban
Dance is a great medium for tackling themes of any magnitude. For example, the range explored in New Choreography Now, a mixed bill...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
NEW SEASON at Trinity Laban + Blackheath Halls
As the world of culture begins tentatively to open up again, Trinity Laban has announced a packed programme of performances to suit every...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
COLAB 2021 online at Trinity Laban
Lockdown has scuppered the sheer visceral excitement that artists and audiences share in any live performance, forcing creatives to look...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 13, 2020
- 3 min
PRELUDES TO NEW LIGHTS FESTIVAL Trinity Laban online
Music is a global language, a truth that has been underscored by its primacy around the world during the Covid-19 lockdown. And no one...
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Miles Hedley
- May 15, 2020
- 1 min
MASS HYSTERIA on Trinity Laban YouTube channel
At what must be one of the weirdest times most of us has ever experienced, all-female dance collective Mass Hysteria have conjured up a...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 1, 2020
- 2 min
CANDOCO DANCE at Laban
Like all great art, dance requires no explanation – it simply demands that we open our hearts and minds to a transcendent experience. And...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 27, 2020
- 4 min
COLAB 2020 in Greenwich, Blackheath, Deptford, New Cross and Southwark
Major world premieres, medieval chants, Hindustani folk music, Hollywood soundtracks, Taiwanese dance, First Nation tribal traditions, a...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 12, 2020
- 3 min
FEST EN FEST in Greenwich, Deptford and New Cross
Fest en Fest is a dance event like no other, concerning itself over three days with the evolution of dance in a series of discussions,...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 25, 2020
- 2 min
AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban theatre
© Andrej Uspenski Life is a mass of contradictions, paradoxes, emotional swings and, ultimately, a realisation that our very uniqueness...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 12, 2019
- 2 min
CITY OF ANGELS at Laban theatre
It’s impossible to come out of Trinity Laban musical theatre department’s epic production of the Broadway hit City Of Angels without...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 25, 2019
- 2 min
SUMMIT DANCE THEATRE at Laban
Producers routinely spend millions to satisfy the public’s apparently unquenchable thirst for special effects. Yet a simple idea that...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 18, 2019
- 2 min
ROSIE KAY: FANTASIA at Laban
Artists 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 15, 2019
- 2 min
DEAF 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 7, 2019
- 2 min
AGE 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Sep 24, 2019
- 2 min
LONDON 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Jun 7, 2019
- 2 min
TRANSITIONS 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
MAPDANCE 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 23, 2019
- 2 min
VELVET 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....
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Miles Hedley
- Mar 15, 2019
- 2 min
FOREFATHERS’ 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Feb 24, 2019
- 3 min
COLAB 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...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 25, 2019
- 2 min
THE BALLET OF THE NATIONS at Laban Theatre
Arthouse films tend to be either great or dreadful with no middle ground, so consciously setting out to make one is a dangerous game. But...
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Miles Hedley
- Dec 8, 2018
- 2 min
CABARET at Laban Theatre
A dazzling central performance sent an already great production of the musical Cabaret into artistic orbit at Laban theatre and surely...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 14, 2018
- 1 min
MARINA COLLARD at Laban Theatre
Dance, sound, film and light joined forces in choreographer Marina Collard’s existential investigation entitled What This Is, Is… at...
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Miles Hedley
- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
TO BE ME - JULIE CUNNINGHAM at Laban Theatre
Contemporary dance is like abstract expressionist art – both are pure forms of collaboration between creator and viewer. This thought...
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Miles Hedley
- Oct 9, 2018
- 1 min
GRACEFOOL COLLECTIVE at Laban Theatre
This Really Is Too Much risked being exactly that – too much. Part dance, part spoken word, part slapstick, part feminist tract and all...
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Miles Hedley
- Jul 17, 2018
- 1 min
K.R.U.M.P. MACBETH at Laban Theatre
Krump is a form of hiphop street dance from LA that features highly stylised moves designed to echo gang violence, so the bloody story of...
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Miles Hedley
- May 30, 2018
- 2 min
TRANSITIONS DANCE COMPANY at Laban Theatre
Life as a progression interrupted by brief encounters and occasional relapses was the theme of a Transitions Dance Company triple bill...
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Miles Hedley
- Jan 27, 2018
- 1 min
WAYNE MCGREGOR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY at Laban Theatre
World-famous choreographer Wayne McGregor has spent 25 years probing the mysteries of the human soul. His new work, Autobiography, takes...
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