Rambert x (La) Horde: Bring Your Own is dance for the millennials

Rambert in Hop(e)storm by (La) Horde

Rambert in Weather is Sweet by (La) Horde

Rambert in Room with a View by (La) Horde

By Graham Watts, 11 May 2025

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“replete with the artifice of enough sexual couplings to illustrate a mini-Kama Sutra”

Reviewed at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on 7 May 2025

Room with a View ((La) Horde)

Weather is Sweet (Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel)

New Work (Marine Brutti, Jonathan Debrouwer, Arthur Harel)

Rambert

Salomé Poloudenny, Costume Designer

Eric Wurtz, Lighting Designer

Ballet national de Marseille

Immersive OAE submerged at Southbank’s Multitudes festival

Mark Valencia, 22nd April

The road to immersion is paved with modish deflections as the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment performs 20th-century English string music.

**111

Sad shanties from Manchester Collective and Sean Shibe

Chris Garlick, 28th March

The Manchester Collective are one of the most successful groups of musicians who aim to bridge the gap between musicians and their audiences.

****1

Piano trios x 3 from Weilerstein, Jackiw and Barnatan at QEH

Roy Westbrook, 30th November

The classical equivalent to a pop “supergroup” assembles at the Southbank Centre for piano trios by Rachmaninov, Ravel and Beethoven.

****1

Benjamin Grosvenor plays Pictures at an Exhibition at the Southbank

Roy Westbrook, 24th October

Benjamin Grosvenor tackles pianistic beasts by Chopin, Ravel and Mussorgsky in his Queen Elizabeth Hall recital.

****1

John Butt and the OAE celebrate Handel's Solomon

Roy Westbrook, 12th October

The Queen of Sheba is clearly in a hurry in this account of Handel's oratorio at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

*****

London Sinfonietta explodes fixed views of Boulez

Roy Westbrook, 5th October

Pierre Boulez died in 2016, but on this evidence of this exploration into …explosante-fixe…, his music will live on.

*****

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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.