Richard Alston Dance Company returns one last time to The Place

By Graham Watts, 30 November 2019

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“Siobhan Davies... simply watching her walk across a room would be a pleasure”

Reviewed at The Place, London on 27 November 2019

Nowhere Slowly (Richard Alston)

Blue Schubert Fragments (Richard Alston)

Isthmus (Richard Alston)

Red Run (Richard Alston)

Detour (Martin Lawrance)

Richard Alston Dance Company

Siobhan Davies, Dancer

Elly Braund, Dancer

ENBS and Rambert School excel

Graham Watts, 27th June

English National Ballet School and Rambert School present a diverse and entertaining programme for the Next Generation Festival.

***11

Ballet Nights – Spring Into Summer a fascinating hotchpotch of dance

Graham Watts, 5th June

Ballet Nights 008 – Spring into Summer proved to be a judicious choice of quality and diverse repertoire.

****1

Final Edition for the Richard Alston Dance Company

Graham Watts, 7th March

The final full stop for a much-loved company

****1

Richard Alston Dance Company's Final Edition

Kirsty Morgan, 27th September

It is sad that Final Edition will be Richard Alston dance company's final tour, but it is a fantastic production to leave us with.

****1

Richard Alston Dance Company shines in Sadler's Wells mixed bill

Graham Watts, 1st March

A lifetime of achievement that keeps on giving

*****

Richard Alston Dance Company draws inspiration from around the world in diverse triple bill.

Philippa Newis, 16th June

Tango infused contemporary dance sizzles on a hot summer evening. Sometimes tempestuous, sometimes tender; four couples oscillate between summer storms and wintry chills. Tangent, choreographed by Martin Lawrence opens a triple bill by the Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadlers Wells. He draws inspiration from Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas played on stage by pianist Jason Ridgway.

****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.

Alston at Home: Richard Alston Dance Company returns one last time to The Place