Dada Masilo's The Sacrifice was powerful and magical dance theatre

Dada Masilo's The Sacrifice

By Graham Watts, 26 February 2023

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“if you see only one dance performance between now and Easter, then this should be it”

Reviewed at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange, Brighton on 21 February 2023

The Sacrifice (Dada Masilo)

Dada Masilo / The Dance Factory

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Deborah Weiss, 30th October

Joburg Ballet makes a promising, if somewhat initially tentative, UK debut with a programme of five works, four by South African choreographers.

***11

Giselle retold as a story of lust, indifference and revenge

Graham Watts, 4th October

A South African Giselle of spell-binding intensity at Sadler's Wells.

****1

Dada Masilo’s Giselle Reclaims her Power

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 3rd April

Dada Masilo’s Giselle is about her redemption, not his.

****1

Dada Masilo’s Modern Fairy Tale

Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, 2nd February

Dada Masilo is a delightful performer whose warmth and goodwill instantly captures your heart.

****1

William Kentridge’s miscellany hour

Rebecca Lentjes, 24th October

William Kentridge’s chamber opera Refuse the Hour emerged amid a hurricane of clashing out-of-sync metronomes, frenetic choreography, African drumming, brass glissandi, and sound-making contraptions.

***11

Dada Masilo's Swan Lake

Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros, 18th June

Dada Masilo's Swan Lake combines modern gestures and Beyonce-esque booty twerks with classical ballet phrases. At Sadler's Wells as part of Sadler's Sampled.

****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.