The Story of Breaking Bach documents a life-enhancing journey that brought together Bach’s music and urban street dance This article was first published on London Unattached In the summer of 2025 a packed Usher Hall in Edinburgh rose as one…
Breaking Bach, soon to premiere at the Edinburgh Festival, is Kim Brandstrup’s marriage of Bach and Hip Hop The sophisticated Baroque music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and hip hop, the gritty street dance born of the disaffection of contemporary urban…
Ancient Greek myth comes powerfully alive in Phaedra + Minotaur, which pairs Britten and Brandstrup at the Linbury… Taken individually, Benjamin Britten’s cantata Phaedra and Kim Brandstrup’s ballet Minotaur each packs a powerful punch. Together, though, they inform and mirror…