by Donald Jenkins | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Writing
Using an exciting range of experiences and physicality including martial arts, athletics and folklore, this company of dancers are constantly in pursuit of finding new things to do with the body. Their energetic feats of movement keep audiences’ jaws dropping. ...
by Donald Jenkins | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Writing
Crafting its shape, unfolding its story, ‘Hijikata, Mon Amour’ is a contemporary solo piece of experimental Butoh that focuses on the splendour of puppeteering and dancing with a costume. It imagines its every possible transformation in form as the garment stunningly...
by Donald Jenkins | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Writing
As Northern Ballet announces cuts to live music from some of its shows, what is the future for the art form? Donald Jenkins reflects. An orchestra’s power to tell a story should never be underestimated. My recent visit to see Northern Ballet’s adaptation of...
by Donald Jenkins | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Writing
A contemporary yet vintage take on fairy tales has never been more magically reimagined than by Northern Ballet’s adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. David Nixon CBE’s two-hour show is an action-packed technicoloured dreamscape that sublimely captures the glowing...
by Donald Jenkins | Mar 6, 2024 | Uncategorized, Writing
Bradford’s finest export-The Bad Boy Chiller Crew land at the Middlesborough Empire for a night of club-charged anthems, tongue-in-cheek lyricism, and addictive basslines. The Yorkshire rap collective comprised of Gareth “GK” Kelly, Kane Welsh,...
