culture
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Strictly Ballroom the Musical is adapted as a showcase for Will Young
Strictly Ballroom is the love story between championship ballroom dancer Scott Hastings breaking all the rules to follow his heart to dance his way, losing his partner en route and Fran an awkward junior dancer who he teaches and takes through to compete in the Pan Pacific Championship but in his way and together they…
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New documentary on talented but tortured WHITNEY HOUSTON
Hot on the heels of Nick Broomfield’s doc Whitney Can I Be Me which debuted on Showtime TV last summer, comes yet another profile of Whitney Houston, the talented but troubled singer. Simply called Whitney and directed by Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin MacDonald, who previously helmed Marley, this is an attempt to unravel the mystery behind “The Voice,”…
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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…
