London Children’s Ballet: Anne of Green Gables
At the centre was Amelie French as Anne Shirley. Hers was a performance of remarkable grace, warmth and dramatic presence… She understood how to make movement speak
Nicola Claire
Next Generation Festival: Just Us Dance Theatre Apprenticeship Company
The five performers showed strong technical ability, energy and stage presence. They filled the Linbury with ease, not through scale of numbers or theatrical effects, but through concentration and sheer enjoyment in performance.
English National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
This Sleeping Beauty is not flawless. But the production’s strengths are considerable: the splendour of its costumes, the sweep of the music, the scale of the occasion, and above all Emma Hawes’ luminous Aurora.
Next Generation Festival: The Royal Ballet School and School of American Ballet
An evening of thirteen short works and excerpts, moving between heritage repertoire, 20th-century classics, contemporary choreography and creations
The Ruggeds and Ghetto Funk Collective: Groove
A high-energy fusion of hip-hop, breaking, street dance and live funk music… a lively, skilful and exhilarating evening.
Onyx Productions: 360 ALLSTARS
a hugely entertaining, high-energy hour of physical performance that sits somewhere between street culture, contemporary circus and dance.
National Youth Dance Company: Memory Keepers
A wonderfully inventive piece of dance theatre, and one of the most creatively choreographed works I have seen in a long time
Still Pointless: BalletBoyz at 25
What remains most impressive is the calibre of the dancers. They show athletic power, musical responsiveness, sharp ensemble work and superb technique
Festival of Korean Dance 2026: 99 Art Company in Ekah & Abyss
Both sit in the territory of grief, ritual and remembrance… An evening that was certainly distinctive, occasionally compelling, but also frustratingly limited
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
A riot of colour and sound from the first step to the last… sumptuous gaiety, romance and a great deal of fun… a score that seems to laugh from the pit.
Yukiko Masui’s RONiN
Masui excels in crafting inventive and sharply controlled sequences in which physical precision and dramatic tension work together to powerful effect.