Rendez-Vous Dance: The Monocle
The limitations of only focusing on sexual relationships are all-too apparent. People are so much more than their sexuality but you wouldn’t think it
Charlotte Kasner
Into The Light by PCK Dance
Following Vessel, In the Absence leaves the audience feeling oddly uplifted, sprinkling a little of its shine on us in these dark and dismal times.
English National Ballet: Body & Soul
Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) demonstrates all the depth and subtlety which we have come to expect from this most exciting of choreographers
Let’s Dance International Frontiers 26 festival launched
Opening on April 29, International Dance Day, this year’s headline visitors are Shamel Pitts|TRIBE, who will close the festival with Marks of RED
Ballet Icons 20th Anniversary Gala
Somewhat more classical than previous years, the standard of dancing was sans pareil. Just what the doctor ordered.
Ballet Nights New Year’s Day Concert
A concert that mixed dance and music, the latter a little more to the fore… a largely successful and enjoyable programme.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
There is a lot of dancing but it does feel like one big number after another at times. And the choreography within them is very busy
Ballet Black: Shadows
Ballet Black have had a difficult year having to relocate to West London. It doesn’t show in performance, however.
Nederlands Dans Theater & Complicité: Figures in Extinction
A definite must-see, jam packed with significance and meaning which is often sadly lacking in many other ultra-abstract performances.
Sadeck Berrabah: Murmuration Level 2
The mesmeric, swooping, sweeping beauty of a murmuration in the soft light of sunset is reduced to that of automatons
London Flamenco Festival: Pineda, Flamenco by Cantaora, Queralt Lahoz
In Pineda, Patricia Guerrero does an impressive job in giving body and soul to the character in what is a compelling flamenco ballet.