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Richard Alston

December 2020

  • Clockwise from top left: Message in a Bottle, Onegin, Within the Golden Hour, Our Bodies Back and There Is No Standing Still.

    Best culture 2020
    Just keep moving: the top 10 dance shows of 2020

    The year started with sparkling ballet and dazzling premieres, then came lockdown. But the dance world didn’t stand still and kept delivering innovative and urgent creations

September 2020

  • Roughcut, 2011

    Jump cuts: Richard Alston's stunning dance company – in pictures

    Chris Nash documented the work of Richard Alston’s celebrated dance company for 25 years. He looks back at 10 key photographs from his new book

May 2020

  • How will live performance adapt? ... Ellen Yilma and Alejandra Gissler in Voices and Light Footsteps, from the Richard Alston company’s final performance, March 2020.

    Lockdown culture
    Move on up! The most joyful dance clips to raise the spirits

    Richard Alston’s dance company of 25 years closed just before lockdown, making him re-evaluate his beloved art form – and discover dazzling routines online

March 2020

  • Richard Alston on stage before Richard Alston Dance Company gives it’s final ever performance @ Sadler’s Wells (Opening 7&8-03-20) ©Tristram Kenton 03/20 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Richard Alston Dance Company: Final Edition; Swan Lake – review

    Alston and company bow out with a celebratory, intensely moving farewell show
  • End of an era ... Richard Alston’s Voices and Light Footsteps.

    Step in time: how to save the legacy of dance from being lost in history

    While Richard Alston’s company hang up their dance shoes, archivists and choreographers are grasping at ways to immortalise an inherently slippery art form
  • Joshua Harriette and Ellen Yilma in Richard Alston’s, Voices and Light Footsteps @ Sadler’s Wells. Richard Alston Dance Company. (Opening 7&8-03-20) ©Tristram Kenton 03/20 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – a thrilling farewell

    The company’s final outing ran through some of Alston’s most dynamic newer works, with performances ranging from the spellbinding to the effortless

November 2019

  • Red Run by Richard Alston at the Place, London.

    Alston at Home review – master of dance creates a world of grace

    On their final tour, Richard Alston Dance Company take it back to where it all began with a moving survey of their 25-year history

March 2019

  • Ellen Yilma and Carmine De Amicis in Brahms Hungarian by Richard Alston Dance Company.

    Richard Alston Dance Company: Quartermark; BalletBoyz: Them/Us – review

  • Brahms Hungarian

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – class and craft

February 2019

  • Richard Alston

    Richard Alston for hire: 'Who will let an elderly deaf man loose on their dancers?'

    The newly knighted choreographer is shutting his company due to cuts and has snapped his achilles tendon. But he’s full of optimism about the future

March 2018

  • Liam Riddick and Elly Braund in Proverb from Mid Century Modern by Richard Alston @ Sadler's Wells (Opening 23-03-18) ©Tristram Kenton 03-18 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – stillness, serenity and funk

    Alston’s latest programme is a touching testament to his half century in the rigorous pursuit of purity in movement

June 2017

  • A scene from Chacony a London Premiere by Richard Alston @ Sadler's Wells. (Opening 16-06-17) ©Tristram Kenton 06-17 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – steps into darkness and leaps of the heart

    New work Chacony is a charged homage to Benjamin Britten’s wartime experiences, while Gypsy Mixture succumbs joyfully to its Balkan fusion soundtrack. Finally Tangent, by Martin Lawrence, is sexy and fierce

May 2017

  • Golem theatre show

    Five of the best… theatre shows
    Golem and Brighton festival: this week’s best UK theatre and dance

    Catch 1927’s fable about our over-reliance on machines and explore the best of dance, as curated by Kate Tempest. Plus: Every Brilliant Thing and Voodoo

December 2016

  • Cathartic intensity … Betroffenheit by Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young (prone).

    Best culture 2016
    Judith Mackrell's top 10 dance shows of 2016

    Jane Eyre duetted with Rochester, Akram Khan imagined a refugee Giselle and Jonathon Young battled his demons in a nightmare cabaret. Our critic picks this year’s best dance

June 2016

  • Rambert’s 1926 debut, A Tragedy of Fashion; and Cardoon Club, 2010.

    Rambert at 90: the ballet company that made British dance a homegrown hit

    The mould-breaking dance company is celebrating its ninth decade. We trace the nimble steps that took it from a raggle-taggle bunch of students to global name

April 2016

  • Richard Alston’s An Italian in Madrid at Sadler’s Wells.

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – a match made in heaven

    Sadler’s Wells, London
    Richard Alston weds Indian classicism to European courtliness in one of the finest new works of the year

March 2016

  • Ihsaan De Banya (Domenico Scarlatti) and Jennifer Hayes in An Italian In Madrid by Richard Alston Dance Company @ Sadler's Wells (Opening 29-03-16) ©Tristram Kenton 03/16 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Richard Alston Dance Company review – Scarlatti's story cast in astounding light

    Alston spins a hybrid of kathak and classical dance styles from the composer’s sonatas – wringing out a deep, intimate engagement with his fierce rhythms
  • Vidya Patel, Nancy Nerantzi, Richard Alston Dance Company, in rehearsal for "An Italian in Madrid", at The Place, London, Britain - 03 Dec 2015<br>Vidya Patel, BBC Young Dancer Finalist, and Nancy Nerantzi, Richard Alston Dance Company, working in the studio at The Place with choreographer Richard Alston on his new commission ‘An Italian In Madrid’ which premieres at Sadler’s Wells on 29 Mar.

    Scarlatti showed me how to step into other dance cultures

    Choreographer Richard Alston’s newest work celebrates the music of Domenico Scarlatti and the global influences that made his music so daringly innovative
  • Jennifer Hayes, dancer from Richard Alston Dance Company

    Are they human or dancer? Richard Alston's move machines – in pictures

    Photographer Rick Guest’s images capture the beauty and energy of the dancers in Richard Alston’s company in a thrillingly kinetic, sci-fi style

February 2016

  • Como el Musguito…

    Dance blog
    Savour the last dance: Pina Bausch and Merce Cunningham's stylish swansongs

    Tanztheater Wuppertal’s playful Como el Musguito… contrasts with the darkness of Bausch’s early shows while Cunningham’s later pieces hummed with a digital energy. Choreographers’ final works can feel positively youthful
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