Laments and combats: Deep emotions in Monteverdi Ballets at Spitalfields

By Cristina de Lucas, 19 June 2013

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Reviewed at Village Underground, London on 17 June 2013

Il combattimento de Tancredi e Clorinda (Botis Seva, Robia Milliner Brown, Ajani Johnson-Goffe, Tony Adigun)

Avant Garde Dance

East London Dance

Early Opera Company

Christian Curnyn, Conductor

Sophie Junker, Soprano

Sam Furness, Tenor

William Berger, Baritone

Fagin's Twist is back at The Place

Graham Watts, 25th September

A fresh and surprising take on Dickens' classic tale

****1

The Place Prize: Semi-Final 1

Erin Johnson, 16th September

The Fifth Edition of The Place Prize is in full swing as the first four semi-finalists presented their work Saturday night to a sold-out audience.

***11

At the World's Edge with London Sinfonietta in Spitalfields

Paul Kilbey, 19th June

It’s all about puppets at the moment, from War Horse to Madama Butterfly – even Studio Ghibli’s complicated cult film Princess Mononoke has had the puppet treatment – and the latest musical project to do the string thing, so to speak, is from the London Sinfonietta.

***11

The Opera Group: Bow Down

Paul Kilbey, 13th June

Two sisters, a knight, a miller, and a blind harpist. Such is the cast of Tony Harrison and Harrison Birtwistle's Bow Down, their 1977 music-theatre piece currently being toured around the UK by The Opera Group. It's an elemental, mythic piece, but also a testament to the endless capacity for novelty that old, grim folk tales like this have.

***11

Martha Graham Dance Company celebrates 100 years in New York

Ivy Lin, 8th April

In a tremendous triple bill at New York City Center, Martha Graham’s genius and Janet Elber’s stewardship of the company into the 21st century deserve to be celebrated, loudly.

*****

Pina Bausch’s Kontakthof – Echoes of ‘78: poignant reality

Graham Watts, 7th April

A reimagining of Pina Bausch's 1978 Kontakthof by Meryl Tankard brings together eight of the original cast members in a unique and poignant revival.

*****

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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.