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More BTG DevelopmentsDateline: 4th April, 2004Regular readers will be noticed an increasing (albeit still small) number of dance and opera reviews on the BTG. This week, for example, we have a contemporary dance/jazz piece, two full-blown operas and a Gilbert and Sullivan, alongside the usual diet of regional, touring and London theatre. This isn't new: we first reviewed the jazz suite (before the dance element was added) nearly four years ago, and dance and opera have made the occasional appearances in our pages for some time now. There was a time when people regarded the three areas of the performing arts - dance, music and drama - as quite distinct, but crossover between the three is becoming more and more common and the lines are beginning to blur. The Romeo and Juliet Jazz/Dance Suite is a good example: its started out as incidental music for a production of Romeo and Juliet, became a stand-alone piece and the composer has now linked up with a choreographer to expand the piece further. Last year I reviewed a performance of Schubert's Winterreise sung by Simon Keenlyside and danced by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, another example of crossover. It has long been the case on the continent that theatre directors have worked with opera companies and this has become more and more common in the UK in recent years. The production of HMS Pinafore which we review this week, for example, was directed by Timothy West, and Eugene Onegin by James Macdonald, best known for his work with the Royal Court. And as for dance, in the continuum dance <--> physical theatre <--> theatre where are the boundaries? There is no point where we can say that one stops and another begins. At one time it might have been said that without text there is no theatre, but Matthew Bourne's Play Without Words (produced by the RNT in 2002), the touring version of which we will be reviewing later this week, surely laid that the final sod on the grave of that idea. And all this is a rather long-winded way of saying that we are looking for a dance reviewer in London! If you're interested, email me with a sample of your reviewing and we'll take it from there. Articles Indices:
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