Lyndsey Winship

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lyndsey Winship

Maybe it’s inevitable by the age of 75 that you’ve lived a number of lives. For Emilyn Claid, that’s meant the leap from ballet dancer in Toronto to the squats of grungy 1969 New York (via Martha Graham’s garden), to pioneering the New Dance scene in 1970s London, to artistic director, academic and psychotherapist (not to mention mother, grandmother), and then in her eighth decade, full circle to being a performer again.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Lyndsey Winship

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Lyndsey Winship

It’s not your Disney version, this. In fact, BalletLorent’s production has less in common with a sweet-singing Rachel Zegler, more with Demi Moore in The Substance. And it reminds you that, in the version originally collected by the Brothers Grimm at least, Snow White is hardly a kids’ story, what with all the attempted murder and juicy cannibalism.

1 month ago | msn.com | Lyndsey Winship

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1 month ago | theguardian.com | Lyndsey Winship

You haven’t lived, it turns out, until you’ve seen a blazing-hot pole dance accompanied by a mournful Irish fiddle. Or perhaps a B-boy headspinning to the song of a button accordion. In fact there are a lot of things you didn’t know you needed in this show, Wake, by the Dublin-based theatre company Thisispopbaby, which joyfully explodes expectations of the traditional Irish wake, but captures some of the culture’s soul alongside the high camp and shiny Lycra.