Greek chorus

It has been a couple of millennia in the making, but Robert Thicknesse has finally reconstructed an ancient Greek chorus line.

Main concept for Greek chorus

Chorus, Medea, by Euripides, The Little Theatre, 2019

Is there a difference between a speech and a theatre performance? Yes, there is. Let's dive into that. Courtesy of Corbettreport.com While speeches and theatre both involve public performance, there are two key differences. These are how much audience you see (the 4th wall) and rehearsal time. I will demonstrate these with different scenarios as we go, but the point is that they are not the same. Speeches also include school presentations. We also have to talk about stage fright in this blog…

It seems now to be a given that any new work by Izadora Weiss will combine dramatic, narrative-based dance theatre with a profound visual impact, danced to challenging, powerful music.

The masked chorus, Iphigenia at Aulis, 1992, Guthrie Theatre.

florence + the machine - big god i can honestly watch this video by autumn de wilde on loop. between the incredible song by florence, the amazing choreo that she collabs with akram khan (and those other dancers!), this is just a beautiful piece of visual that you can lose yourself into. simple but so powerful at the same time. hence my video of the week.

Twenty or so years after ITV transmitted a production of Sophocles’ Electra in modern Greek and — astonishingly — without subtitles (about which I wrote a blog piece here), the second o…

It seems now to be a given that any new work by Izadora Weiss will combine dramatic, narrative-based dance theatre with a profound visual impact, danced to challenging, powerful music.