At the start of their 70th anniversary season, English National Ballet bring their new production of Cinderella to audiences in Manchester for the first time. Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon and performed in the round earlier this year at the...
As part of English National Ballet’s 70th anniversary season the company is bringing to Manchester’s Palace Theatre the proscenium arch version of Christopher Wheeldon’s inventive restaging of Cinderella. Quays Life meets People’s Choice Emerging...
Britain’s Got Talent threw street dance into the limelight winning it a whole new popular audience that has continued to grow. In ‘Some Like it Hip Hop’, Zoonation has taken the art form a leap-forward, creating full-length narrative dance that...
Having heard so many accolades used to describe the work of the Candoco Dance Company and their world class choreography, not to mention the praises following that BBC Strictly performance, it was no surprise that they were opening this year’s Sick...
We are giving away three pairs of tickets to Z Bo Jackson Dance Gala hosted by Pussycat Doll, Kimberly Wyatt at Manchester’s Palace Theatre on Tuesday 10 September 2019. From free runners to hip hop, ballet to street dance, the new Z Bo Jackson...
Choreographer Bo Jackson talks to Quays Life about her new dance fusion theatre venture, the Z Bo Jackson Company, ahead of its gala night launch at Manchester’s Palace Theatre. Can you tell us more about Z Bo Jackson and where the idea came from...
Meraki Collective’s dance theatre work Kill a Witch or Die Trying, is performed as part of Waterside Art’s Refract festival. Their patchwork of movement and spoken scenes in response to the issues of sexism, misogyny and maltreatment of women...
You can approach Trajal Harrell’s new work, Maggie the Cat, as a purposeful critique of the politics of race, gender and class, inspired by (note: ‘inspired by’ not ‘based upon’) Tennessee Williams’s classic, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; or you can go in...
When Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company takes on Shakespeare and a classical ballet score by Sergei Prokoviev, we are primed to expect the unexpected. If Bourne is to be believed (and he’s a knight of the realm, so he ain’t gonna lie, is he?)...
Choreographer, Matthew Bourne captures the essence and power of young love and passion in his latest production, Romeo and Juliet He talks to Quays Life about his dance interpretation of Shakespeare’s timeless romantic tragedy. Matthew Bourne...
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