YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Children's Shows Dance & Physical Music Theatre
Today in London: Tuesday 30 July 2013
By TW Editorial | Published on Wednesday 24 July 2013
Today in London’s ‘what’s on’ battalion, TW London’s cultural weapons-of-choice are…
TODAY’S DANCE CHOICES
Carlos Acosta – Classical Selection, London Coliseum, 30 Jul – 4 Aug (pictured)
Even at 40, Cuban ballet champ Carlos Acosta is still, many say and have said, his generation’s greatest male dancer. Tonight he invites a cast of Royal Ballet stars – not least principal ballerinas Marianela Nunez and Nehemiah Kish – to partner him in reprisals of his most high-vaulting, fast-spinning parts and pas de deux in ‘Winter Dreams’, ‘Mayerling’, ‘Gloria’ and Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Requiem’. Details and tickets here.
TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES
Eliza Doolittle, Islington Assembly Hall, 30 Jul
Kittenish easy-listening princess Eliza Doolittle, maker of candy cane pop since her 2010 break ‘Skinny Genes’, plays a one-night live bonanza in the name of her new single, ‘Big When I Was Little’. Details and tickets here.
TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES
Alice In Wonderland, St Paul’s Church, 30 Jul – 31 Aug
Aptly placed amid the bloomin nice rose gardens of St Paul’s, aka The Actor’s Church, Iris Theatre’s ‘Alice’ leads its watching kids and parents on a merry dance, inviting them to play croquet with the Queen Of Hearts, have tea with the Mad Hatter and take part in a Lobster Quadrille. Details and tickets here.
The Picture Of Dorian Gray, secret location, 30 Jul – 28 Sep
The Alchemic Order stages this cloak-and-dagger-style ‘promenade’ adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s Victorian oil-on-canvas horror, stashing the action inside a townhouse (whose location is only known to ticket-holders) decorated ato look like a Gray-era salon. “You are invited”, they say, “on a voyage through time, space and imagination, from aristocratic Victoriana to the decadent underworld of a gothic nightmare, and beyond”. Oooooo, spooky. Details and tickets here.
