YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Dance & Physical Theatre
Three To See on 29 Apr: Romeo and Juliet, Breakin Convention ’17, Material Men Redux
By TW Editorial | Published on Saturday 22 April 2017
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
Romeo and Juliet | Union Theatre | 29 Apr-20 May
This is described as “an extraordinary new interpretation” and I must admit, it sounds quite different, even to my rad-new-shakespeare-PR-soaked ears. In this version, the chief protagonists are gay footballers – which is topical – and the production employs a whole lot of music, noise and physical theatre to evoke the atmosphere of the soccer stadium and the religious-like fervour that pervades it. Click here for more.
Breakin Convention ’17 | Sadler’s Wells | 29-30 Apr
The fourteenth year running for this, the world’s biggest festival of hip-hop dance, and as ever, you can expect a weekend of internationally produced excellence, with the line up of acts including outfits from Russia, France, Canada, Austria, South Korea, The Netherlands, South Africa, Canada, the USA, and of course the UK. Meanwhile, activities and workshops will be going on offstage, see this page here for details.
Material Men Redux | The Place | 28-29 Apr
Hurrah, more dance, and this one also has a hip-hop element to it. Two performers with very different dance styles – the aforementioned hip-hop, plus classical Indian – but with a shared ancestral history of colonial migration and plantation labour explore themes of loss and finding new ways of belonging. See the venue website here for info.
