Cloud Gate Dance Theatre's Lunar Halo: glacial beauty and rituals

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan in Lunar Halo

By Graham Watts, 03 December 2023

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“an explosion of frenetic dance with the women’s long, black hair flailing like whips in the darkness”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on 30 November 2023

Lunar Halo (Cheng Tsung-lung)

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Cheng Tsung-lung, Director

Po-hung Shen, Lighting Designer

A bridge from the past to the future: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre

Graham Watts, 26th February

This double bill at Sadler's Wells exemplifies a fascinating bridge between Cloud Gate's past and the future.

***11

13 Tongues à Chaillot : passage de flambeau au Cloud Gate Theatre

Laurine Mortha, 12th February

Dans 13 Tongues, première création d’envergure de Cheng Tsung-lung en 2016, la chorégraphie et la scénographie donnent vie à tout un imaginaire urbain et pittoresque, incroyablement vivant sur scène.

****1

La Sydney Dance Company en tournée au Théâtre de Chaillot

Laurine Mortha, 11th April

Le Théâtre de Chaillot accueille la Sydney Dance Company avec au programme trois chorégraphes emblématiques de son répertoire récent.

***11

The Trocks at Sadler’s Wells: uproariously entertaining

Graham Watts, 5th May

A very welcome and hilarious return to the UK from Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, this time at Sadler’s Wells, they offer familiar and new works.

****1

Acosta's Don Quixote for BRB: polished but not quite enough panache

Jonathan Gray, 23rd April

Carlos Acosta's Don Quixote for Birmingham Royal Ballet returned to Sadler's Wells with polished but low-key interpretations across the board.

***11

The Center Will Not Hold: Dorrance Dance thrills at Sadler’s Wells

Daniel Pratt, 17th April

Dorrance Dance offer a compelling mix of genres in The Center Will Not Hold – high energy, full of surprises, top quality performances.

****1

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.