Review: Ballet Black: Triple Bill, Theatre Royal Stratford East
Ballet Black, founded by Cassa Pancho in 2001, aims to provide dancers of Black and Asian descent with inspiring opportunities in Classical Ballet. It is an unf...
Emily May
Review: Carlos Acosta: The Classical Farewell, Royal Albert Hall
Carlos Acosta, world famous Cuban ballet prodigy is hanging up his ballet shoes and bidding farewell to the demands of Classical performance. It feels as if he’...
Review: Natalia Osipova Triple Bill, Sadler’s Wells
Natalia Osipova has followed the lead of French prima-ballerina Sylvie Guillem by throwing herself into the world of contemporary dance in her first self-commis...
Review: The Dream Factory, The Little Angel Theatre
“In a land where anything is possible, no imagination is too big for our dream factory. Not even yours.” This is the claim made by House of Stray Cats in the d...
Review: Gallows Rope, Bread and Roses Theatre
Gallows Rope seeks to explore issues peculiar to twenty-first century London. Solitary existence, overpopulation, and Londoner’s inability to communicate with p...
Review: punkplay, Southwark Playhouse
Upon entry I’m handed a badge. “Dreams are free motherfuckers” it says, setting the tone for the evening’s proceedings. The UK premiere of punkplay at the South...
Emily May
Emily May is currently studying for a degree in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. As well as performing and choreographing, she reviews contemporary dance, theatre and art on her own blog (www.abohemianinlondon.wordpress.com) and was recently part of the reviewing team for Resolution festival 2016. Emily has a wide variety of cultural interests, including European art, literature and history.