…two hours of palpable enjoyment proved that life after Cira will be different but no less auspicious. Ballet Black is nothing if not resilient and this diverse double bill evidenced that the sum is far greater than any of its parts. … Click the link to read the full article….
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…the door with a soft click. The rehearsal schedule in the week leading up to a performance is intense, but after close to two decades in the industry, Cira knows how to conserve her energy. Two days out from the world premiere of a new piece entitled Momentum – performed…
Ballet Black: INGOMA, PENDULUM and CLICK! By Anna Rose James | November 30, 2019 | Performing arts, Reviews London-based company Ballet Black, celebrating their eighteenth year, return to York Theatre Royal following last year’s successful debut with a Triple Bill featuring INGOMA, contrasting dramatic and inventive storytelling in a lively…
…of close encounters and the repetitive nature of this composition gives the dancers the impetus to intricately dance in very close synchronisation. This is followed by Click! This is a colourful and upbeat piece and features five dancers who dance to four pieces of music, arranged by Kenny Inglis. This…
…Instead of leaving her, however, Philemon torments her with the suit Simon left behind, forcing Matilda to eat with the garment and take it for walks until shame finally overwhelms her… To read the full review please click on the original full article link at the top of this post…
…intimate moments of pas de deux. Next up is Click! This is a more upbeat and quirky piece by Sophie Laplane, former dancer and choreographer-in-residence at Scottish Ballet. Led by Isabela Coracy, five dancers dressed in colourful suits move to musical clicks and Coracy’s finger snaps. This piece has a…
MARY WOODWARD REVIEW Ballet Black Pendulum, Click!, Ingoma, Festival Theatre, Edinburgh June 11, 2019 ***** (5 stars) Ballet Black, founded in 2001 by Cassa Pancho to provide role models for young aspiring black and Asian dancers, brought an exciting and inspiring triple bill to the Festival Theatre. All three ballets…
…any newcomers they’re in for a night of skill and integrity. Former Scottish Ballet dancer-turned choreographer Sophie Laplane takes us down an entirely different path with Click! Bright-coloured trouser suits swirl round bodies as they move from funky five-piece to romantic duet during a series of diverse vignettes. Making each…
…off with the clean purity of Martin Lawrance’s minimalist Pendulum, move through the playful psychedelic Click! by Sophie Laplane, and come to Ingoma, Mthuthuzeli November’s gorgeous, devastating ballet about the South African mine workers’ strike in 1946. Ingoma is striking for its drama and its scope. In the programme notes…
Dance review: Ballet Black at the King’s Theatre, Edinburgh 9th June 2019 By Mary Brennan, Dance critic 4 Stars Click! And in a snap of the fingers there’s a creative connection between Ballet Black (BB) and our own national company. The link is Sophie Laplane: resident choreographer with Scottish Ballet,…
…light, Click could not be more different, certainly standing as the most energetically colourful of the trio. It is a piece which openly blends multiple dance forms, highly creative in its designs by Yann Seabra, and explores the multitude of ways we can interpret such a simple action. To click,…
…crescendo. Sayaka Ichikawa and Mthuthuzeli November create a wonderful, magnetic effect of repel and attract. By way of complete contrast, the light hearted ‘Click!’ is a new commission by Scottish Ballet’s choreographer in residence, Sophie Laplane. A non-narrative piece which explores the different gestural meanings of snapping or clicking the…
…followed by Click! a fun quartet of dances choreographed by Sophie Laplane. Wearing brightly coloured suits of yellow, rose red, pink and blue, this is dancing with a sense of amusement. But here there are also contrasts. The Snap of Your Fingers, danced to the 1962 song by the Mudlarks…
REVIEW: BALLET BLACK TRIPLE BILL, BRISTOL OLD VIC By JULIE CRESSWELL BUCK, Friday Apr 26, 2019 To mark Ballet Black‘s 18th season, Artistic Director Cassa Pancho presents this brilliant triple bill: Pendulum, first performed ten years ago; Click!, a colourful piece choreographed by Sophie Laplane; and finally Ingoma, created by…
…surprise sudden ending. Pendulum tests the dancers’ skills to the limit and they gave it all the strength it requires. No break, it’s straight into the next dance, Click!, which couldn’t be more different. Choreographed by Scottish Ballet’s Sophie Laplane, this is a mainly light-hearted work that examines the various…
…new commissioned, Click, by Scottish Ballet’s Sophie Laplane, makes an ideal contrast. The sassy performances, the bright coloured suits, (Yann Seabra) and corresponding lighting (also by Plater) all click. Opening on a witty quip and closing on a final snap of her fingers, Isabela Coracy conducts the tightly knit piece….
Ballet Black: Pendulum / CLICK! / INGOMA at the Barbican By Graham Watts, 20 March 2019 Opening its eighteenth season (how is that possible?), Cassa Pancho’s chamber ballet ensemble has now clocked up 45 original commissions and last year’s newbie, The Suit by Cathy Marston, garnered two gongs in the…
Ballet Black – Pendulum, Click!, Ingoma – London By Sara Veale on March 19, 2019 Ballet Black’s laudable mission of increasing diversity in the classical ballet sphere is visible in the London-based troupe’s own demographics – all of its dancers are of black or Asian descent – as well as…
Pendulum / CLICK! / Ingoma Ballet Black – Barbican Theatre 15 to 17 March 2019 by Vera Liber I once thought the Barbican theatre stage too big for Ballet Black. Tonight’s triple bill (two world premières) proves me wrong: filling the stage with passionate presence, interesting music and David Plater’s…
…partner Mthuthuzeli November. The latter appeared as an incisive force on stage, with a technique less adhering to usual ballet standards but out-shadowed by exceptional energy driving each step. In a swift transition, the five other dancers of the company took over to introduce CLICK!, a new piece by Scottish…