Sutra is a big hit in Taiwan

Sutra finally tours to Taiwan

The Sutra team arrive in Kaoshiung. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

Some seven years since Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's Sutra was first performed, the show finally made a stop in Taiwan where it was performed to huge acclaim by the audience.

Post show talk after Sutra. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

The staff at Kaohsiung Festival gave the Sutra team a warm welcome and even provided the audience with some Gormley style boxes to play with. 

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is interviewed in front of boxes resembling the ones made by Antony Gormley for Sutra. Photo: Sandra Castell Garcia

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is mobbed by fans posing in front of Gormley style Sutra boxes. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia 

The team were also treated to a tour of the new National Arts Centre which is currently under construction.

The Sutra team at the new National Arts Centre, Taiwan. Photo: Sandra Castell-Garcia

Farewell to Taiwan from the Sutra team. Next stop, France...

Breaking News: Russell Maliphant Company perform Critical Mass for Prince William

Russell Maliphant Company Perform in Shanghai

As part of the GREAT Festival of Creativity, celebrating creativity in business in China, Russell Maliphant Company were invited to Shanghai to perform Maliphant's celebrated Critical Mass. Thomasin Gülgeç and Dickson Mbi stunned an audience of invited guests including people from the business world, into silence with their virtuoso performance.

In the audience was guest of honour HRH The Duke of Cambridge, better known as Prince William, who was in Shanghai to strengthen business links between China and Britain. We hope he enjoyed the performance as much as the other audience members seemed to.

milonga flirts with New York

m¡longa flirts with New York

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's m¡longa made it's US debut last week at New York City Center as part of the A Bailar festival. It charmed audiences and critics alike with the New York Times calling it an "impassioned production" with "exceptional dancers"

Read the full review here

Havana Rakatan storms New York

Havana Rakatan received rapturous applause in New York

Sadler's Wells' most successful production Havana Rakatan has travelled to New York for its first ever US dates. At the opening at New York City Center last night, the audiences were up on their feet, dancing and cheering before the show's big finale.

See what the audience had to say after the show...

Catch Havana Rakatan at New York City Center until 22 February.

milonga melts the snow in Canada

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui's milonga takes Canada by storm

Photo: Ghislaine Granger

milonga is back on tour, kicking off 2015 with a tour of Canada. Starting at the Grand Theatre in Quebec and then on to Ottawa where the Valentine's Day performances were a big hit.

"Once again, Larbi manages to create a work of both absolute rigour and immense appeal. His troupe of tangueros create more combustible chemistry than in Walter White’s lab" Ottawa Citizen - read the full review

Next stop, Montreal and then it's off to New York where it will be joining Havana Rakatan in the A Bailor festival.