13 h. ago London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre review: expressive freedom both sensual and amusing

Dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests provide choreography for a one-of-a-kind performance of Terry Riley’s In C

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14 h. ago London Sinfonietta at Southbank Centre review: perfect symbiosis of motion and movement

Dancers from Sasha Waltz & Guests provide choreography for a one-of-a-kind performance of Terry Riley’s In C

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6 d. ago Circa/LPO/Gardner review – Exhilarating, exquisite and extraordinary as Ravel melds with acrobatics

Royal Festival Hall, LondonMultitudes festival opened with a stunningly effective collaboration between the Australian circus company and the London Philharmonic OrchestraThe Southbank Centre’s cross-genre Multitudes festival opened with a double bill of Ravel’s ballets Daphnis et Chloé and La Valse, played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra under Edward Gardner, and performed by the Australian company Circa with choreography by their artistic director Yaron Lifschitz. Circa’s style amalgamates circus and acrobatics with contemporary dance, and the combination of athletic beauty, agility and strength suits Ravel uncommonly well.Rather than use the music as accompaniment to display, Lifschitz worked with the score rather than against it, though he dispensed with Daphnis et Chloé’s narrative, replacing it with a sequence of contrasting abstract tableaux, now exhilarating,now erotic, always rooted in the pulse and throb of the music, played with exquisite finesse and detail by the LP...

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8 d. ago ‘Be playful, try new things!’ The Southbank Centre’s Mark Ball on his new festival, Multitudes

The arts centre’s artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to do itCan you name the UK’s top five most visited attractions? A 2024 survey placed the British Museum and Natural History Museum in the top two spots, then Windsor Great Park and the Tate Modern. No surprises there. But the fifth is perhaps less expected: the Southbank Centre, with 3.7 million annual visitors.“If you come down in the summer, it’s like a 21st-century version of the Victorian pleasure garden,” says its artistic director, Mark Ball. “It’s like the whole world is here. Skateboarders mixed with poets mixed with the classical musicians, mixed with the dancers – it’s what gives this space its vibrancy and why I love it so much.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago News | Southbank's office development pipeline races past other central London submarkets

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3 w. ago More stellar acts unveiled for Little Simz’ Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank Centre

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3 w. ago Mahalia among artists added to Little Simz' Meltdown festival

Mahalia, Tiwa Savage, and more artists will join Little Simz for an unforgettable Meltdown festival at London's Southbank Centre this June

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3 w. ago Haruomi Hosono to play first UK show in seven years at London's Southbank Centre · News ⟋ RA

Haruomi Hosono to play first UK show in seven years at London's Southbank Centre · News ⟋ RA  Resident Advisor

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