David Mead
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Freelance critic and writer covering ballet and contemporary dance in the UK, Europe and Asia - and freelance choreographer. Editor CriticalDance.
Rugby, UK & Taipei, Taiwan
Joined December 2011
RT @SeeingDance: The dancing and choreography are outstanding, the storytelling pitch-perfect. Taps into the feel and mood of the televis….
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A wonderful, wonderful, wonderful show! The dancing and choreography are outstanding, the storytelling pitch-perfect storytelling
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Definitely one of those exhibitions where you wish you'd left more time. A look at the excellent Five Friends exhibition on at Munich’s #MuseumBrandhorst since April featuring John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.
David Mead reports on the Five Friends exhibition on at Munich’s #MuseumBrandhorst since April. An engrossing look at the art and lives of composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham, and artists Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly.
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A seriously smashing evening at the @BirminghamRep with @LonCityBallet. Last year was good but this is several notches up. A gorgeous but rarely seen (why?) Balanchine, an impressive new work from Florent Melac (Paris Opera Ballet), and works by Liam Scarlett and Alexei Ratmansky.
@LonCityBallet are certainly shifting through the gears. Balanchine, Scarlett, Melac and Ratmansky. @davidmeaddance reports on a fabulous evening with their new 'Momentum' programme at the @BirminghamRep . "Not to be missed.".
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The last time I was at IF: Milton Keynes International Festival, it was wall-to-wall sunshine and blazing hot. The first Saturday morning this year could hardly have been more different. But the rain did stop, and I got in shows by #ClubGirko, @pagravdanceco & #NoFitState CIrcus.
Colour from @pagravdanceco brightened up a grey Saturday afternoon at the IF: Milton Keynes International Festival, plus #ClubGirko and #NoFitStateCircus.
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RT @SeeingDance: "Yui Yonezawa is the image of Romantic beauty. Fragile and soulful with delicate limbs she seemed to float. strong suppo….
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The ballet adheres to the traditional, leaving the surprises and delight in the quality of performance from the dancers.
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Thoughts on the 'Stravinsky in Paris' double bill by the Ballett des Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz. I found Jerome Verbruggen's 'Farewell to Paris', inspired by 'An American in Paris', rather marshmallow, but Marco Goecke's unusual take on 'Rite of Spring' is a rare beauty.
From Munich, @davidmeaddance reviews the all-new 'Stravinsky in Paris' double bill by the Ballett des Staatstheaters am @Gaertnertheater: 'Farewell in Paris' by #JeromeVerbruggen, and 'Le Sacre du Printemps' by #MarcoGoecke.
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RT @SeeingDance: "These young people have had the opportunity of a lifetime, working with some of the greatest people in dance today, and t….
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A joyous eruption of 33 young people taking over the Sadlers Wells stage for an hour of non-stop dance.
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Thoughts on a very special evening at the @StaatstheaterN Nuremberg and the ballet company's penultimate performance under #GoyoMontero's directorship before he leaves for Hannover. It was an amazingly great show. Without doubt, one of the best this year so far, if not the best.
@davidmeaddance reports from the @StaatstheaterN (Nuremberg) on #GoyoMontero's final programme before he departs to take over at the Staatstheater Hannover next season.
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RT @SeeingDance: Continuing our reviews from Germany this summer, Veronica Posth looks at the #StaatsballettBerlin in a Jiří Kylián-Crystal….
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The Staatsballett Berlin dancers were beautifully precise and neat in all the complex combinations, the movement looking fresh and innovative
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A final look at this year's super Colours International Dance Festival, and The Center Will Not Hold, a cracking coming together of tap, hip-hop and live percussion.
@davidmeaddance reports on one of the closing performances at #ColoursInternationalDanceFestival 2025 - The Center Will Not Hold by #MichelleDorrance and #Ephrat Asherie, "hip-hop and tap as though they were made for each other.".
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I had been lucky enough to see a run through of much of #BarakMarshall's 'Barker' in rehearsal, so I had a preety good idea of just how good the finished piece might be. It was even better than expected! A real treat. Thoughts on #GauthierDance Juniors at #Colours Int Dance Fest.
@davidmeaddance reports on the hugely entertaining and superbly performed 'Barker', created by @Barakmarshall for #GauthierDance Juniors. Presented at the @Theaterhaus Stuttgart as part of the #Colours International Dance Festival.
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RT @SeeingDance: Nicola Claire reports on this year's The @RoyalBalletSch Summer Performance @rbo_org (Royal Ballet & Opera). "It is the d….
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Iain Mackay may have only recently become artistic director of the Royal Ballet School but, undaunted, has already upped the game by a large margin
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Magnificat really is a joy. But I never got on with Marie Chouinard's 'bODY_rEMIX/gOLDBERG _vARIATIONS' and I feel much the same about its revisioning as 'Body Remix/Remix'. More thoughts from @Theaterhaus Stuttgart and Colours International Dance Festival.
"Nicely tongue in cheek, Magnificat is magnificent. A joy and a dance that, like all the best, leaves you wanting more.". @davidmeaddance on Compagnie @mariechouinard at the #ColoursDanceFestival. Stuttgart.
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RT @SeeingDance: "A completely bazaar, frenzied, pornographic, nonsense show. It’s also oddly compulsive." Nicola Claire on 'No President….
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It may have been compulsive and memorable, but that that doesn’t go hand I hand with pleasant... certainly different, though.
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RT @SeeingDance: From Berlin, Veronica Posth reviews @NDTdance in #FiguresinExtinction by #CrystalPite and #SimonMcBurney at the Deutsche O….
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A triptych that speaks about real, urgent, worrying and dramatic themes, realised through a combination of danced poetry and beauty
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It was a lovely evening as the sun shone on the beautiful setting of Northington Grange near Alresford in Hampshire. A lovely evening on stage at @GrangeFestival too, with #JacobWye's terrific Perennial a late and very welcome addition to @BalletBlack's advertised double-bill.
@davidmeaddance reports on this year's dance evening at @GrangeFestival, which saw the return of @BalletBlack plus #JacobWye's super Perennial, with himself, #HannahRudd and #DanielCrossley.
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I hadn't managed to get to an @ElmhurstBallet School summer performance for a couple of years, so it was great to return last Saturday for a very enjoyable afternoon watching the Upper School students.
@davidmeaddance reports on last Saturday afternoon's Voices and Virtues programme by the Upper School of @ElmhurstBallet School that showcased the young dancers' talents in classical ballet, jazz and contemporary.
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It's always a fine evening. This year, Kristen McNally came up trumps with London Children's Ballet - @LCBLondon and her fine production of 'Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella', based on the Shirley Hughes children's book and relocated to the Roaring Twenties.
"A super evening". @davidmeaddance reviews London Children's Ballet - @LCBLondon - in 'Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella', and new take on an old tale with choreography by #KristenMcNally.
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RT @SeeingDance: As @LonCityBallet are about to open their 2025 UK 'Momentum' tour, Maggie Foyer talks to artistic director #ChristopherMa….
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London City Ballet’s ‘Momentum’ 2025 UK tour gets underway on July 12. Artistic director Chris Marney talks about this year’s programme
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One work danced on pointe, one mostly in ballet flats, one in bare feet. And all very different works in mood too. Thoughts on the #BadischesStaatsballett's 'Leuchtfeuer' triple bill at the @StaatstheaterKa.
@davidmeaddance on the #Leuchtfeuer programme of the #BadischesStaatsballett at the @StaatstheaterKa: new 'Das Schloss' by #KristinaPaulin (based on Kafka's final, unfinished novel), #RaimondoRebeck's 'A Journey of a Memory', #MauroBigonzetti's 'Cantata'.
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