For their first time in Wales, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba present three newly premiered works from some of the world’s…
iCoDaCo (International Contemporary Dance Collective), BABULUS, Dance Splash, Abergavenny
February 17, 2017After extensive R&D last year in both Sweden and Scotland, this third project by the biannual dance group iCoDaCo,…
OTUS, Company Oliveira & Bachtler, Riverfront, Newport
December 5, 2016A stream of sawdust drops from above, straight and true like an Angel Falls. The woody taste is on my…
Gary Clarke Dance, COAL, Blackwood Miners’ Institute
November 26, 2016For communities remembering their lives in the 1984 to ’85 Miners’ Strike, scars still run deep. In a building paid…
Mahler – Symphony No 2 (Resurrection) Welsh National Opera Orchestra, conductor Tomáš Hanus St David’s Hall, Cardiff
October 23, 2016If ever a conductor, new to a city orchestra and its audiences needed a suitable vehicle with which to showcase…
Aakash Odedra Company, Murmur 2.0 / Inked, The Riverfront, Newport
October 20, 2016As we take our seats in the auditorium for Inked, the first of tonight’s two-dance programme, revealed in the dim…
The Terrible Things I’ve Done, Invisible Ink, Chapter
October 7, 2016In the foyer downstairs by bar is a confessional, with red Monsignor curtains. A would-be confident asks if we…
Opera for the Unknown Woman, Festival of Voice, WMC, Cardiff
June 11, 2016Opera for the Unknown Woman – the title alone makes my heart sink. Not one for being barracked, I lack…
In Parenthesis, WNO at WMC
May 15, 2016Marking both the centenary of the Battle of Mametz Wood, Wales’ blackest of innumerable black episodes of the Great War,…
Transitions Dance Company, The Dance House
March 15, 2016Trinity Laban’s MA Dance Performance troupe, Transitions, performed three original works that form the basis of their academic and practical…