Sébastian Ramirez & Honji Wang: Borderline, London
This pan-European hip-hop duo have been credited with creating their own genre of urban tanztheater, drawing on their different backgrounds in street dance; Sébastien Ramirez is from France and Wang’s from Germany. Borderline is a piece for six performers and features virtuoso B-boying alongside elements of contemporary dance. It also places its dancers within an environment of rope and elastic rigging, which tests their limits as performers, and gives sharp physical drama to the work’s issues of freedom, constraint and manipulation. Before the show starts, DJ Billy Biznizz of Tha En4cers will be playing for a circle of freestylers.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1, Sat
Birmingham Royal Ballet, Birmingham
BRB started its new season with a revival of its timelessly elegant production of Swan Lake (to 6 Oct), and Variations Triple Bill, a programme of three one-act works, which opens on Thursday. At its core is Kin, a new work by Alexander Whitley, in which Phil Kline’s propulsive score drives abstract but potently expressive dance. Flanking are two 20th-century classics, George Balanchine’s Theme And Variations, and Frederick Ashton’s Enigma Variations, one of the most singular of the great choreographer’s works.
Birmingham Hippodrome, Thu to 10 Oct
