A strange community and an experience full on: Alexander Ekman’s Rooms
A weird gated community of characters where each solo, duet or trio occupies a bijou pad
Month: June 2017
Chun Wing Lam: a Hongkonger in Paris
Hong Kong-born Chun Wing is not just an exception, but the first Chinese dancer at the Paris Opera.
Three short ballets from Birmingham Royal Ballet
The gilded topsail of the evening was John Cranko’s marvellous comedy, Pineapple Poll
Comic Cuts and a feast of summer dance coming soon at Elmhurst Ballet School
David Mead looks ahead to Summer Variations, this year’s Elmhurst Ballet School’s summer shows with school artistic director, Robert Parker, and David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, who has created his first work for the students. In Birmingham, full-time dance training means Elmhurst Ballet School, Britain’s oldest vocational dance school, now fast approaching its … Read more
Visualising the music: Richard Alston Dance Company
Making dance for almost 50 years, still a master of his craft.
Dresden Semperoper Ballett capture the persuasive power of Kylian’s Forgotten Land
Expectancy, fraught with hopes and fears
Pite, Preljocaj and Scottish Ballet
Pite’s E,mergence is another strong, gorgeously constructed work, brim-full of ideas and images
Daft, thought-provoking, moving and utterly sincere: Plan B for Utopia
Funny, occasionally daft even, thought provoking and moving
Ballet Central students impress in a strong and varied evening
The young cast captured the spirit and wicked humour of Bourne’s Highland Fling perfectly
