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Behind the life of a Creative Director and Choreographer - #MemberSpotlight Published 25/02/2021 by To  Del Mak, choreography is much more than just aesthetic moves. To Del Mak, choreography is a vision; an art that he wishes could be involved in the production process much earlier on, and much more than it currently is. Choreography is also about trust, an element that characterises all of Del Maks beautiful projects. Trust in others as much as in ones own possibilit...

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Shes been a sitcom favourite, an acclaimed stage actress and strutted her stuff on Strictly Come Dancing. Now Felicity Kendal is to make her musical theatre debut at the age of 74 – even though, as she readily admits: ‘I can’t sing!’ The star has been chosen by celebrated Broadway director and choreographer Kathleen Marshall to join Megan Mullally and Robert Lindsay in Anything Goes at the Barbican this summer.  The revival of Cole Porter’s effervescent farce, set aboard an ocean lin...

Sofia Vyas Mark Esau’s book, How Dance Saved My Life: Against Adversity - Credit: Dominic Cole An Islington dancer has published the story of his journey from apartheid Johannesburg to London. Mark Esau’s book, How Dance Saved My Life: Against Adversity, recounts his childhood struggles with abuse and trauma and how he overcame them through ballroom dancing, which took him to London’s Pineapple Dance Studios. “I wrote the book as a healing process to get through the trauma of my child...