Northern Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
The costumes are breathtaking, the lighting perfectly captures its changing moods and the dancing, of course, was excellent.
Anna Pujol Castiblanque
Reimagined but happily familiar: Coppélia by KVN Dance Company
The show is engaging from the very first second… I wish I could press ‘rewind’ to watch these again and discover a million new things.
Company Wayne McGregor in UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey
If you can endure the unnerving projections and the musical scares… the brilliant dancers make it a satisfying experience
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Contemporary Voices
“Alvin Ailey never misses.” Anna Pujol Castiblanque reports on a programme that includes Kyle Abraham’s new Are You in Your Feelings?
An explosion of shapes and colours: Alma by Sara Baras
Sadler’s WellsJuly 5, 2023 As part of the London Flamenco Festival, Sara Baras, the worldwide acclaimed Spanish dancer, returned to Sadler’s Wells with Alma (‘soul’), a show directed, scripted, danced and choreographed by herself. Without a doubt, it showed the talent that she has cultivated in her thirty-year career. Even if you have seen flamenco … Read more
Rhiannon Faith Company: Drowntown
A thought-provoking dance theatre production that explores themes of loneliness, anxiety, desperation, helplessness and suicide
Choi x Kang Project and Art Project BORA in a Korean double-bill
A Complementary Set: Disappearing with an Impact by Choi x Kang Project is more of an experimental performance than a dance show…
A richly detailed evening with Nederlands Dans Theater
If you wanted to dive into the dark and ugly moments of life and dreams through grotesque movements, it proved the perfect evening
Akram Khan’s Jungle Book reimagined
A complete experience. And a very important message delivered in a magnificent way.
Turn It Out with Tiler Peck and Friends
Four diverse pieces including ballet meeting tap in Time Spell, although the highlight is William Forsythe’s The Barre Project (Blake Works II)
Christmas comes to the Coliseum with English National Ballet’s Nutcracker
Julia Conway, still only a Soloist, fully showed her potential, presenting a Sugar Plum Fairy variation with many new challenging technical steps