A trip into the darkness of emotional loneliness and frustration: B.DANCE in Rage
Superbly danced and full of atmosphere. A beautiful, dark, work that journeys into the depths of the human soul
Month: May 2021
Micaela Taylor’s darkly delicious Home lights up Rambert2
Home is a brilliantly danced, juicy piece of dance theatre that grabs you from its opening dark tableau to its unresolved end
A conversation with Sweden-based, British choreographer Joseph Sturdy
Joseph Sturdy talks about training, his career, injury, choreography, and his new work for the Royal Swedish Ballet, Sonatra
David Nixon to step down at Northern Ballet
After twenty years in the role, David Nixon is to step down as Northern Ballet’s Artistic Director in December 2021
San Francisco Ballet in Swan Lake
OnlineMay 21, 2021 Charlotte Kasner What has been a hugely pleasurable digital season from San Francisco Ballet came to a close with Helgi Tomasson’s 2009 production of Swan Lake, his second for the company. His robust re-telling is well suited to modern sentiments: after all we are all familiar with women suffering coercive control (if … Read more
Shadows: Alexander Whitley Dance Company in Overflow
Overflow was made in collaboration with Dutch light artists Children of the Light, and it is their powerful contribution that sticks in the memory.
Neo by Alexei Ratmansky
A new duet for Isabella Boylston and James Whiteside intersperses frenetic, sharp movement with languid ports de bras
A jolly good evening! Live dance returns with English National Ballet’s Reunion
From Yuri Possokhov’s Senseless Kindness to Arielle Smith’s Jolly Folly, the five works all transfer well from film to stage, giving some in particular the chance to truly breathe
LDIF: Maya Taylor’s Shape|Shifter and Yinka Esi Graves’ The Disappearing Act
Los Angeles and New Orleans-based choreographer Maya Taylor crosses easily between the commercial fashion, film and television, and stage performance. Her new dance film, Shape|Shifter, explores the strain she has often felt to assimilate as a mixed-race woman.
New York City Ballet Digital Spring Gala captures the beauty of ballet and hope for the future
Leaves you shouting for more