Krzysztof Pastor’s new Swan Lake for Polish National Ballet is a tour de force
The rewritten story is both radical and traditional in an intriguing new mix.
Month: May 2017
Full throttle, Grease is the word
A great, feel-good show with fabulous, infectious songs and some wonderful characters
Rina Kanehara and Aitor Arrieta joint-winners of ENB’s Emerging Dancer
A night when artists who live to dance shared their passion with the audience
Ballet Black: Captured and Red Riding Hood
Captured is a work of cryptic and ever-shifting but tightly-knit relationships
A ride on the gloriously gory ghost train with Jakop Ahlbom’s Horror
A physical theatre homage to the horror movie
English National Ballet School’s young choreographers show impressive skills
New dance created and performed with commitment
Magical and poignant: Rambert Dance Company in Ghost Dances
It remains hugely relevant; a moving tribute to victims of political oppression everywhere
National Dance Company Wales in Profundis and The Green House
The Green House has the varnish of Beckettian surrealism and loneliness
Colour and delight: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
Led by the wonderful flame-haired Ashley Shaw as Victoria, the dancing is terrific
Ghost Dances as powerful as ever: Rambert at Sadler’s Wells
The haunting breathness of pan pipes sounds like respiration proceeding a death-rattle.