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.
Charlotte Kasner
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.
Compañía Mercedes Ruiz: Romancero del Baile Flamenco
There were some excellent and varied offerings from the dancers who, had they been wearing any, would have worked their socks off…
Alejandro Hurtado/Inmaculada Salomón and Manuel Valençia Trio
Two shows that presented the very best of contemporary flamenco, and how lucky are we that London is able to witness it.
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: Vuela
Sara Baras and her company, just five years older than the LOndon Flamenco Festival itself, have set the bar very high… A hard act to follow
Sasha Waltz & Guests: In C
The piece is a sort of improvisational choreographic and musical exercise within a set structure of 53 musical and choreographic phrases.
English National Ballet: The Forsythe Programme
Not everyone can carry off Forsythe because it’s about so much more than just steps… English National Ballet have embodied the style fully.