In 2003 Royston Maldoom was all over the news, after Simon Rattle invited him to stage The Rite of Spring in Berlin. The production, which combined a huge cast of teenagers and the august Berlin ...

Olayinka Shitu is 16. He came to Germany from Nigeria. But not with his mother or father. He arrived in Berlin "with someone who then left me", he says cryptically. Somehow, he found a place at a ...

Docu traces the multi-stranded preparations, highlighting the vibrant personalities of Rattle, Maldoom and a handful of the students as chaos is transformed into order under the driving rhythm of ...

Choreographer Royston Maldoom takes students from Hay Park school through an energetic dance rehearsal. Photo / Supplied English choreographer Royston Maldoom brings his energy to a dance-music ...

“You can change your life in a dance class,” instructor Royston Maldoom tells a crabby pack of German kids in “Rhythm Is It.” It’s the sort of annoyingly pretentious thing that is often reverently ...

OVER in Ethiopia, it seems, it's the girls who hold back, stay invisible. ''Over here it's the men, the boys. They're the ones who need persuading, reassuring, that dance really is for them. But they ...

"Royston, it's f***ing unbelievable," says Rattle, bouncing up to him in one of the last rehearsals. "Okay, now I'll go and tell them it's shit," replies Maldoom, rubbing his moustache with a ...

The documentary is about the British Choreographer Royston Maldoom OBE and his work on the Community Dance Piece that he created with children teenagers and adults in ...

FOR generations of Scottish dance-makers - especially those who were green lads and lasses in the 1970s and 80s - one name remains talismanic: Royston Maldoom. If his energies as Fife's Dance ...

When your back catalogue spans over 40 years, choosing what to include in a retrospective isn’t easy. Especially if, like Royston Maldoom, you like to see more than one choreographic voice in a show. ...