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Just Dance : I Don’t Need A Reason: genre busting choreography

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  Lady Camden of Season 14 of Drag Race shows off her dance prowess in this short video from Nowness directed by filmmaker Luke Willis.  I Don’t Need a Reason is one of six collaborative short films, which Willis has directed to accompany specific episodes from the current season. This film is also the only film … Continue reading



Just Dance : Tempest

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  Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of  the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet.  With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and … Continue reading



Matthew Bourne’s brilliant ballet SWAN LAKE is BACK

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  The multi-award winning openly gay British choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne first staged his male version of SWAN LAKE at  Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London in 1995. Overnight it converted thousands of unsuspecting men and women everywhere into balletomanes. It became the longest running ballet in London’s West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best … Continue reading



Matthew Bourne’s stunning re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet now streaming online

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If you have never seen any of Sir Matthew Bourne’s stunning ballets then you are so missing out, This award-winning queer Brit choreographer has produced breath-taking genre-bridging adaptations of classics like “Swan Lake,” “Sleeping Beauty,” “Car Man” and “The Red Shoes”.  Now his latest one Romeo and Juliet, which was filmed live at Sadler’s Wells … Continue reading



Myles Thatcher : exploring gender binaries through Dance.

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  San Francisco Ballet dancer Myles Thatcher is one of  12 of the most innovative international choreographers who have been given the opportunity to create ballets for UNBOUND  a Festival of New Works that the SF ballet is running from April 20th  to May 9th. Thatcher’s ballet is a new piece called OTHERNESS which explores gender … Continue reading



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