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Today in London: Wednesday 17 April 2013

By | Published on Thursday 11 April 2013

Saloua Raouda Choucair

Just because it’s Ford Mustang Day, that needn’t mean you can’t take alternative, non-muscle-car transportation to whizz off to one/all/any of the following of today’s London-based arts bangers. Culture-guzzling Londoners, start your engines…

TODAY’S DANCE CHOICES

Romeo And Juliet, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 17 – 21 Apr
In Britain for the first time in over 25 years, the National Ballet Of Canada dances one-time Bolshoi boss Alexei Ratmansky’s 2011 imagining of Shakespeare’s most abiding tragic love-story. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S FILM CHOICES

Argentine Film Festival, Brixton Ritzy/Hackney Picturehouse/Cineworld Haymarket, 17-21 Apr
Doing precisely what is says on the tin, this fiesta of Argentinian film starts rolling tonight with a showing of Nicolas Carreras’s vineyard odyssey ‘El camo del vino (Ways Of Wine)’, going on to screen the likes of Daniel Burman’s witty and neurotic ‘All In’, Hernán Belón’s non-fictional think-piece ‘Sofia Turns 100’ and, to finish, a surreal finale in the shape of Dario Nardi’s strange and beautiful ‘Sadourni’s Butterflies’. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES

British Sea Power, Shepherd’s Bush Empire, 17 Apr
Alt-popular guitar band British Sea Power are, quite indisputably, back. And since they’re back, they may as well release an LP, and that’s just what they’re doing via their fifth studio set ‘Machineries Of Joy’. They’ll be interpreting parts of it live at the O2 SBE tonight. Details and tickets here. 

TODAY’S VISUAL ART CHOICES

Saloua Raouda Choucair, Tate Modern, 17 Apr – 20 Oct (pictured)
If you like art, and – in particular – abstract art from Lebanon, your luck is in… because the Tate Modern is staging Beirut-based grand sculptural dame Saloua Raouda Choucair’s first ever British exhibit. And she’s only had to wait 97 years. Choucair’s varied artistic cache – an amalgam of “western abstraction and Islamic aesthetics” spanning seven decades – features painting, drawing, architecture, textiles and jewellery. Details and tickets here.



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