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• Trip To See Santa, A / The Nativity / The Snowman - The Stage Show | DVD | (06/09/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Trip To See Santa / The Nativity / The Snowman - The Stage Play (3 Discs)

• The Parsons Dance Company | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £80.27   |  Saving you £-54.02 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  David Parsons is one of the golden boys of American dance, combining great popular appeal with quality and integrity of ideas and execution. As artistic director, choreographer and dancer, he has transferred to his own troupe, The Parsons Dance Company - eight exceptionally polished and energetic dancers - the charm, virtuosity and physical power that made him a star of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.Parsons work is featured in three studio recordings, which demonstrate the diversity of his influences and his mastery of a wide range of styles. The music he chooses ranges from Mozart and Rossini to Robert Fripp and specially-commissioned scores. Lighting designs by Howell Binkley enhance all the staging's.David Parsons himself introduces each of the seven pieces presented in these programmes and it is easy to see why his charm, energy and integrity have won him such a considerable following.

• Macbeth | DVD | (31/10/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Opera in four acts. Recorded live from the Zurich Opera House... Prelude ACT 1 Witches “Che faceste? Dite su!” Macbeth Banquo Witches “Giorno non vidi mai” Witches “S’allontanarono!” Lady Macbeth Servant “Nel d della vittoria io le incontrai…” Macbeth Lady Macbeth “Oh donna mia!” Macbeth Lady Macbeth “Sappia la sposa mia che” Macduff Banquo Lady Mac

• The Parsons Dance Company | DVD | (29/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  If you like your contemporary dance to be full of abstraction and metaphor, The Parsons Dance Company is unlikely to move you greatly. However, if you believe that dance should be about something, then you'll appreciate the group's work and its leader's choreography. Rather more widely known in his native US than elsewhere, David Parsons spent nearly 10 years with the Paul Taylor Company before forming his own group in 1987. The seven dances here are each inspired by a very specific idea such as social interaction, male companionship or judgmental behaviour. "Reflections of Four" is both the most interesting and, in some ways, the most irritating piece. Taking as its theme "the strength of women", it's a tour de force for the troupe's female members while also being patronising to the point of sexism--no doubt there's a reason for the dance being staged in four inches of water other than for the girlies to get their leotards wet, but you can almost hear Barry White grunting "Feel mah lurve". Elsewhere, it's a woman who gets her top pulled off during "Scrutiny" for no obvious reason, while David Hasselhof lookalike Parsons reserves the clinical appraisal alluded to in the title for his female dancers. These odd peculiarities aside, this is a successful and very approachable collection. On the DVD: The Parsons Dance Company on disc has the dances interspersed with extra material in the form of interview excerpts with Parsons--Roger Thomas