BalletLORENT: Snow White, Edinburgh
Choreographer Liv Lorent joins forces with poet Carol Ann Duffy for the second of their clever, and illuminating fairytale collaborations. For Snow White, they return to the Grimm Brothers’ early telling, in which the heroine’s nemesis is not her stepmother but her actual birth mother, who has grown lethally jealous of her beautiful daughter. Duffy and Lorent explore the dark dynamics of family life and the relationship between beauty and power, as the work shifts from the brilliant opulence of palace life to the forest where Snow White finds humour and compassion.
Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Fri & 23 Jan, touring to 9 Apr
Mr Wonderful, London
The tragic death of dancer Jonathan Ollivier last summer initiated an outpouring of tributes to his career. Now these tributes have been formalised into a celebratory programme, which embraces the different artists, companies and friends with whom Ollivier performed. Members, past and present, of Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures perform extracts from several of Bourne’s works, including the rarely seen Mr Wonderful from which this gala takes its title. Members of the Rambert School, where Ollivier trained, perform the duet Hidden, and there are also performances from Northern Ballet and the McOnie company.
