Tanguera A dark and passionate love story set in Buenos Aires

Tanguera not only tells a story of two lovers but it reveals for the first time, through the tango dance, the hardships of everyday life for the working class people of Argentina.

The choreography is by Mora Godoy she has excelled in producing a wonderful array of intricate foot work, sensitive dances and realistic acting scenes. On a few occasions when the three couples in the cabaret are dancing and in the pas de deux between Giselle and Lorenzo the steps blend together creating sublime moments of sheer chemistry.

The show is held together and carried throughout by a brilliant score by Gerardo Gardelin.

See the full review in the October issue of Dance Dynamic.

Francesca Filpi brings more than a touch of magic to her role as the Godmother in Cinderella

Francesca Filpi is a dancer with one of the most prestigious companies in the World, the Royal Ballet Company. She has danced many soloist roles with the Company but for the first time Francesca has been asked by Monica Mason the director of the Royal Ballet Company to dance the role of Fairy Godmother in Cinderella. It is a role that will test Francesca's lyrical abilities and she will need to have nerves of steel to dance her solo on the empty vastness of the Opera House stage! It is a very exciting time for Francesca because she is also involved in setting up a Dance Retreat, Dar Danse in Morocco.

EM/ Have you performed the role yet? If so how did you feel on stage?

FP/I have danced the role of Godmother once and the next one is tomorrow evening.

Its funny, one minute your are standing in the comforting darkness of the wings, surrounded by the friendly stage crew lads, cracking the odd joke and then suddenly you are plunged into this surreal world, a huge empty stage with a bright light shining down at you, incredible music drifting up from the orchestra pit, your feet start bourreing ...and you're off.

Read the full interview in the September issue of Dance Dynamic.