A dancer, impresario and femme fatale remembers: Ida Rubinstein – The Final Act
Fraud, femme fatale or fallen star? In many ways, dancer and impresario Ida Rubinstein was all three as Christian Holder’s play confirms
Charlotte Kasner
Old favourites overshadow new work: Ukrainian Ballet Gala
Ivan Putrov assembled some of his country’s finest dancers alongside others in an ambitious and largely enjoyable evening
Revealing ballet’s forgotten diva: Ida Rubinstein: The Final Act
A look ahead with former ABT ballerina Naomi Sorkin, who stars as the Russian dancer and impressario in a new play that opens in September
Tubular Bells Live with Circa
Yaron Lifschitz’s floor work choreography, full of rolls and tumbling, is pleasing and empathises with the flow of the music
A Summer Celebration from ABT
Introduced by First Lady Jill Biden, and featuring digital premieres of works by Silas Farley, Helen Pickett, and James Whiteside
Gifford’s Circus: The Hooley
There’s lots of silly goings on along with the regular circus acts, music and dance
San Francisco Ballet School Virtual Festival
Behind the scenes film, followed by senior students in three works, including two world premieres
Scottish Dance Theatre: Life and Times
Joan Clevillé states that he wants to use the camera to show the effort of dance and in that he succeeds.
A summer special: English National Ballet’s Solstice
A little early maybe, but ENB’s Solstice at the Southbank proved a delicious smorgasbord of dance
Contemporary Cuts from Northern Ballet
In For an Instant, Lebrun achieves a sense of the fleeting through continual movement with unexpected changes in pace and gesture
A surfeit of letters: Northern Ballet in Dangerous Liaisons
David Nixon’s choreography is edgy and exciting throughout… the dancers are uniformly terrific… And yet…