Message In A Bottle: Kate Prince and ZooNation have a major hit

ZooNation in Kate Prince's Message In A Bottle

By Graham Watts, 08 October 2023

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“it's not surprising that the choreography is vibrant, eclectic, and consistently excellent”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells: Peacock Theatre, London on 4 October 2023

Message in a Bottle (Kate Prince)

ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company

Ben Stokes, Set Designer

Natasha Chivers, Lighting Designer

Liam Francis Dance Company in Alchemy: an absorbing London debut

Daniel Pratt, 7th November

Liam Francis Dance Company at The Place brings an instinctive and intelligent debut for a choreographer in-step with what it is to be a dance artist now.

*****

Message in a Bottle at New York City Center is heart-breaking

Erin Bomboy, 2nd May

Whether it’s the manifold charms of the featured performers or the well-mixed tape of Sting’s music, you’d have to be made of stone not to be moved.

***11

Message in a Bottle: ambiguous but exuberant

Graham Watts, 29th September

A story of broken lives, through civil war, persecution and flight, set against the songs of Sting, is surprisingly joyous and uplifting at the Peacock Theatre.

***11

Sadler's Wells Associates

Cristina de Lucas, 6th February

New works by Kate Prince, Crystal Pite and Hofesh Shechter make up the stimulating The Associates programme at Sadler’s Wells.

****1

Shoes

Julie Taylor, 9th September

From the childhood moment when we are introduced to Cinderella we recognise the magical, transformative power of the shoe.

Message in a Bottle at New York City Center is heart-breaking

Erin Bomboy, 2nd May

Whether it’s the manifold charms of the featured performers or the well-mixed tape of Sting’s music, you’d have to be made of stone not to be moved.

***11

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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.