Loughlan Prior’s The Firebird for Royal New Zealand Ballet brings the old story up to date
Totally committed performances… awesome animations and effects… theatre magic
Maggie Foyer
A tribute to men in sandals: Don Gnu’s Two Men and a Plank
The plank is a sturdy piece of stripped pine and the men, two everyday guys. Well, not quite…
A magical setting for an Eastern fantasy: B.DANCE in Alice
The choreography is innovative and exciting and has a sensitive partner in the music conjured up by Rockid Lee
EDGE Digital: a triple bill of dance films
EDGE had to cancel their live shows this year but filmmakers stepped in to deliver a different and exciting graduation programme
Sharing and shining: English National Ballet School’s Summer Show
A very diverse and challenging programme including Frederick Ashton’s Les Rendezvous
Eye Candy and Rouge: Rambert’s Summer Livestream
Two very different pieces and an exceptionally good evening’s viewing. Well done, Benoit Swan Pouffer
Stuttgart Ballet New/Works: an evening by Spuck, Goecke, Clug and Forsythe
An evening of top quality performances and choreography across an exciting range of styles, a feast after the famine
Dutch National Ballet dance Beethoven
Hans van Manen’s Grosse Fuge proves convincingly that Beethoven’s music is perfectly suitable for dance
Dutch National Ballet in David Dawson’s perfect The Four Seasons
One of those blissful moments when dance, music and design chassé into alignment…a moment of sublime beauty
As audacious as ever: Ben Duke in Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
The long build-up is deceptively naïve, the humour bordering on crass before the remarks sharpen and strike like a punch to the belly
A unique piece of theatre: Circus Days and Nights by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera
This unique commingling of poetry, opera by Philip Glass and and circus has created something quite magical