Snapshots of American Modern Dance: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Across both evenings, dialects shifted quickly, textures changed sharply, and technique kept surfacing as a through-line.
Month: January 2026
Sadiq Ali Company: Tell Me
About HIV/AIDS, Tell Me certainly leaves its mark. For all its difficult subject matter, it’s also a work that’s warm and full of hope and optimism.
Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones
The combination of Christopher Bruce and Leonard Cohen in Troubadour produces a dance magic of the sort rarely seen, spellbinding and unforgettable
Resolution 26: Hannah Todosijczuk, SynEcho, Kill Your Darlings
The dancers are committed and the themes are ambitious. What I miss is not effort, but clarity.
Bayerisches Staatsballett in Neumeier’s Illusionen – wie Schwanensee
A coming together of Swan Lake and the ill-fated King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a troubled dreamer renowned for building castles and his homosexuality
Resolution 26: Fin de Fiesta, JJ James, Lauren Scott
Three works that approach dance from very different directions. Movement functioned as performance, but also a way of listening, gathering and questioning
The Ballet Icons Gala celebrates 20 years
As the always much-anticipated annual Ballet Icons Gala reaches a milestone, David Mead talks to founder-director Olga Balakleets.
A wintery delight: Scottish Ballet’s The Snow Queen
Christopher Hampson’s version of the Snow Queen for Scottish Ballet is like a breath of fresh air. A terrifically entertaining spectacle,
Resolution 26: ZhouXin Theater, Babyteeth, DREAM
All three pieces show performers with ability and intent, but none of them offers a thread I can follow.
Resolution 26: Mia Segal, Greta Gauhe & Deborah Dimeglio, Hui-Hsin Lu
From theatrical storytelling, to an intimate duet built around physical touch, to an abstract collaboration between movement and installation
Akram Khan’s Giselle: a ballet about being moved
Even the afterlife offers no freedom, only a different choreography of obedience. In this Giselle, death is not release. It is relocation.