Manchester’s Company Chameleon is auditioning for young dancers, looking to develop their talent in a supportive environment by joining Chameleon Youth. Its youth dance company, launched in 2016, is open to young people aged 11 to 21, with the...
I recently read an article on a contemporary dance forum which argued that narrative dance (that which seeks to tell a story through music and movement) has had its day, and that the future belongs entirely to abstract choreography. I was not...
Multi-award-winning choreographer, Russell Maliphant talks to Quays Life about Silent Lines, a ground-breaking new dance production with video artist, Panagiotis Tomaras. Can you tell us a bit about your new work Silent Lines? Silent Lines is a work...
BBC Young Dancer 2019 finalist, Matthew Rawcliffe is encouraging young people to follow in his footsteps by joining opening auditions for The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training in Dance (The Lowry CAT) where his career started. The Lowry CAT is the...
Flapper girls, jazz and the decadence of the 1920s in New York are the setting for the Northern Ballet’s sensational production of The Great Gatsby. We were invited to the most glamorous party in town, and were certainly not disappointed. The Great...
Mark Morris’ Pepperland successfully launched Liverpool’s Sgt Pepper at 50 Festival in 2017 and this year it tours the UK, bringing its unique take on the classic album to new audiences. Inspired by the Beatles’ 1967 album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts...
The Beatles fanbase is still a powerful springboard from which to launch a new show. But as New York choreographer, Mark Morris says of Pepperland: “If you are going for a tribute show with a cover band playing Beatles hits that you can sing along...
The story of Beauty and the Beast has been told in various forms since the mid-16th century. Since the early 1990s, however, Disney seems to have had the monopoly on it. There’s no denying Disney’s animated film is a wonderful version, but the...
Birmingham Royal Ballet return to The Lowry with David Bintley’s acclaimed fairytale ballet, Beauty and the Beast. The production marks the Director’s final tour with the company and, as Carmel Thomason discovers, his work behind the scenes has been...
“It’s definitely not a twinkly, Disney version of the story; it’s quite a lot darker” – Quays Life chats to Delia Mathews, who dances Belle Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Beauty and the Beast. When and why did you first start dancing? Delia:...