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Matthew Bourne’s brilliant ballet SWAN LAKE is BACK
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…
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Another Kind of Life
There is still a month left to see the stunning new exhibition at the Barbican Gallery that we were so fortunate to catch on a recent trip to London. Another Kind of Life follows the lives of individuals and communities operating on the fringes of society : a subject dear to our hearts. Touching on themes of countercultures, subcultures…
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Myles Thatcher : exploring gender binaries through Dance.
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…
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David & Javier Have Got (So Much) Talent
British TV is so much more liberated than here in the US for when it comes to matters of sex they can be more than a little prudish and homophobic to boot. This last week saw a stunning same-sex couple duo David and Javier electrify both the judges and the audience of Britains Got Talent with their salsa…
