The Dance Locker: Melissa Hamilton
In the latest of our occasional series, Melissa Hamilton opens her dance locker, revealing a special moments and ballets from her career to date.
Month: May 2024
Up-close and full-on: Rambert in Analogue
A short programme, just one 50-minute number, but pure gold in terms of amazing dance in a no-frills package.
Youth Ballet Ensemble Taiwan x BAOTanz
The young dancers of YBET were sadly nowhere to be seen in a double bill that was, in fact, a showcase for four of Taiwan’s established artists.
Carlos Acosta: On Before
Acosta remains a fantastic partner and performer. The equally mesmerising Laura Rodríguez comfortably matches him for presence.
A weekend of all that’s good about dance at Taipei’s Want to Dance Festival
The festival guarantees surprise, delight, frustration and more as established choreographers and dancers rub shoulders with those still emerging
The Royal Ballet: The Winter’s Tale
Like fine wine it’s enhanced with age, finding pole position as a heavyweight, dramatic ballet set to Joby Talbot’s music
Annie Hanauer Dance: A space for all our tomorrows
A show that looks at utopia through the lens of disability… about collective imagining and disabled dreaming
Boy Blue’s Cycles
Barbican Theatre, LondonMay 1, 2024 Cycles, performed by pioneers of hip-hop, Boy Blue, is a powerhouse of a performance. It depicts the cycles of nature: day and night, time and season, tides and rhythms, and birth and death. The dancers are superb, highly talented and skilled hip-hop performers. The piece is introduced with a motion-sway … Read more
IMAGO by Pett|Clausen-Knight
The choreography eloquently expresses the depth of feeling. Both men are exceptional dancers… They know their stuff, and this shows
Choreographers across generations in Badisches Staatsballett’s Strings/Jumps
A well-balanced programme of quality dance – the visit of 92-year-old Hans van Manen and a rapturously received premiere from Mthuthuzeli November
Toru Shimazaki’s Shattered Moon shines in the University of Taipei’s annual performance
“Not only the highlight of the programme, but one of the best works I’ve ever seen in a Taiwanese vocational school show. And I’ve seen a lot.”