In case you're not yet exhausted after the wonderful shows of the last week, this week has another selection of excellent dance shows for you to see, with further opportunities to catch Zoonation's Some Like It Hip Hop and Royal Ballet's Manon if you haven't yet done so. And if you're feeling like you should cut back a bit, just remember that there's not long to go till the Christmas shows start, so these shows will have to last you for a while!
Highlights
Zoonation 'Some Like It Hip Hop': until 20 November
Sadler's Wells
Tickets & details: www.sadlerswells.com/show/ZooNation-Some-Like-It-Hip-Hop
With less than two weeks to go until this show closes, we urge you as strongly as possible to get a ticket and make sure you don't miss out! Since Some Like It Hip Hop opened on 20 October, we've seen a constant outpouring of praise and acclaim, including a five-star review from our reviewer Kelly Crocker. Even FT's Clement Crisp has declared himself a fan, and as many of us know, that's no mean feat!
Royal Ballet 'Manon': until 26 November
Royal Opera House
Tickets & details: www.roh.org.uk/whatson/production.aspx?pid=16853
The new production of Manon, one of the best-loved ballets in the Royal Ballet's repertoire, opened last week, and the highlight of the current production are the pairings of Lauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin (8 & 15 November) and Sarah Lamb and Rupert Pennefather (17 November). Somewhat eclipsed by all the excitement over these pairings are Steven McRae and Roberta Marquez in the matinée on 26 November.
Cancel whatever you're doing and catch these performances!
Darshan Singh Bhuller 'Caravaggio: Exile and Death': 9 - 12 November
The Place
Tickets, trailer & details: www.theplace.org.uk/10607/whats-on/darshan-singh-bhuller.html
Darshan Singh Bhuller's career has seen him as a member of London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Assistant to the Director of Richard Alston Dance Company and Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, also choreographing for Irek Mukhamedov and The Fall. His latest work, Caravaggio: Exile and Death, is a dance theatre exploration of Caravaggio's life and art.
The Place is currently displaying an exhibition of highly atmospheric photos of this work - make sure you have time to see them.
Worth Seeing
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan: 9 - 12 November
Sadler's Wells
Tickets & details: www.sadlerswells.com/show/Cloud-Gate-Dance-Theatre-of-Taiwan-White
While Cloud Gate Dance Theatre employs some of the finest dancers in the world, their latest works have been visually stunning spectacles rather than traditional dance performances, fusing contemporary dance with martial arts and calligraphy. Their latest work, White, is a meditation on light and shadows.
Made by Katie Green 'Matters of Life & Death': 17 November
Rich Mix
Tickets & details: www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/matters-of-life-and-death/
A rare opportunity to see work by the acclaimed award-winning choreographer Katie Green, which re-imagines a key scene from Graham Swift’s novel Waterland, in which a body is found floating in a Fenland sluice. Through collage and fragmentary re-tellings of this scene, five dancers examine some of the many differing emotional responses to a traumatic event.
Don't Forget
Booking opens at Sadler's Wells (www.sadlerswells.com) on 14 November for the new season, so we suggest you ensure that your credit cards are dusted off and ready. Our recommendations are:
27 - 29 January: Ivan Putrov. Last seen collaborating with the Pet Shop Boys on 'The Most Incredible Thing', this show will feature "a host of star dancers including The Royal Ballet’s Sergei Polunin; the production traces the development of the male dancer through a combination of seminal and rarely performed works".
5 February: Russell Maliphant. This will be a preview of his follow-up to the enormous success of Afterlight, called The Rodin Project, which is inspired by Rodin's works.
6 - 9 March: Nederlands Dans Theater 2. Easily one of the best contemporary dance / modern ballet companies in the world, this programme will be a continuation of NDT's 50th anniversary celebrations. NDT2 is the "youth" branch of NDT, exclusively for dancers aged 17 - 23. They are truly amazing.
26 – 28 April: Scottish Ballet. No more waiting two years for Scottish Ballet to return: this programme will feature their production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tickets are already on sale.
6 June – 9 July: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: World Cities 2012. This is part of a month-long celebration of Pina Bausch's work, co-produced with the Barbican Centre.
15 – 19 May: Rambert Dance Company. In 2012, Mark Baldwin will be celebrating 10 years as artistic director of Rambert Dance Company, and as part of these celebrations, Rambert will be reviving his reinterpretation of Nijinsky's L'après-midi d'un faune.