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The camera tailed them around the building . Juan Gil and Simone Damberg Würtz in Rambert’s Draw From Within. Photograph: Camilla Greenwell
The first time I cried watching someone dance in their living room was in April last year. A few weeks into the first lockdown, unnerved by sudden confinement, there was ballerina Céline Gittens on my laptop screen, bourréeing past a pot plant. Then in a different living room, cellist António Novais drawing out a Saint-Saëns melody, and in another house, pianist Jonathan Higgins, all deeply engrossed in this re-creation of The Dying Swan, music crossing the divide.
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Two of the first films made in spring’s UK lockdown captured the moment of sudden confinement, DIY spirit and the simple need for connection and hope. Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Céline Gittens danced Fokine’s Dying Swan in her living room, linked up with musicians at home. Meanwhile, ex-New York City Ballet dancer Robbie Fairchild and his flatmate Chris Jarosz threw juicy shapes on their Manhattan rooftop. They brought a tear and a beaming smile, respectively. Read the full review.
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Among a number of artists addressing issues brought to the fore by Black Lives Matter this summer, Jonzi D’s Our Bodies Back was particularly powerful. It had a strong anchor in the defiant text of Detroit poet jessica Care moore, lamenting the lost lives of Sandra Bland, Breonna Taylor and other black women. And it had three distinctive and potent performers: Nafisah Baba, Bolegue Manuela and the unignorable intensity of Axelle “Ebony” Munezero.