To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Phoenix Dance Theatre: Mixed Programme
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds/Touring
PHOENIX Dance Theatre’s latest mixed programme comes with much anticipation for new piece Windrush: Movement of the People.
A commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the SS Empire Windrush's arrival in Britain with emigrants from the Caribbean, it headlines a bill that opens with Aletta Collins’s Maybe Yes Maybe, Maybe No Maybe.
Created in 2009, the company favourite turns the voices of five dancers into a bold electronic soundtrack. Wittily blending beats with movement, the action is framed within a shifting circle of light in the centre of which dangles a solitary microphone.
GEORGE FOGARTY is dazzled by a breathtakingly skillful puppet version of Shakespeare’s greatest love poem
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about a two-handed theatrical homage to jazz’s most mercurial musician
PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK
MATTHEW HAWKINS recommends three memorable performances from Scottish dance artists Barrowland Ballet, In the Fields Project, and Wendy Houston


