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
Charlotte Kasner
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…
Rhainnon Faith Company: Drowntown
Set in a dystopian world, ostensibly on the edge of a marine lido. Godot-like we are apparently waiting for a lifeguard to arrive
San Francisco Ballet in Swan Lake
OnlineMay 21, 2021 Charlotte Kasner What has been a hugely pleasurable digital season from San Francisco Ballet came to a close with Helgi Tomasson’s 2009 production of Swan Lake, his second for the company. His robust re-telling is well suited to modern sentiments: after all we are all familiar with women suffering coercive control (if … Read more