Tag: Matthew Bourne
Same sex couple on BBC Strictly Come Dancing TV Show perform the most passionate and romantic routine ever
British TV programme Strictly Come Dancing has never been shy at pushing the envelope when it comes to pairing dances, but this time they really excelled themselves Last Sunday evening professional dancers Nikita Kuzmin and Vito Coppola. Dancing to a cover version of the Coldplay track, “Something Just Like This” their…
Matthew Bourne’s stunning Nutcracker hits movie theaters
Its kind of mind-blogging to realize that the traditional Christmas ballet NUTCRACKER has been performed since 1892. It seems that the changes it has undertaken over the past two centuries could hardly be considered significant that was until (Sir) Matthew Bourne got his hands on it. His Nutcracker follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas…
A perfect Holiday Gift for all those would-be Billy Elliot’s out there
The work of the celebrated multi-award-winning choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne is the real reason why so many of us (young enough!) wanted to become Billy Elliot. His now-legendary SWAN LAKE in which he altered the traditional story to be about a human male falling in love with a male swan, is part of…
Matthew Bourne’s stunning re-imagining of Romeo & Juliet now streaming online
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…
Matthew Bourne’s Romeo & Juliet streams in US for the 1st time
Tony and Oliver Award winner director/choreographer Sir Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet is a passionate and contemporary re-imagining of Shakespeare’s classic story of love and conflict. Set in the not-too-distant future in ‘The Verona Institute’ and mysteriously confined against their will by a society that seeks to divide and crush their youthful spirits, our…
