Richard Chappell Dance: Hot House
“Incredible dancing, the sheer fluidity of which almost defies description”
Nicola Claire
Jazz Conversations with BOP Jazz Theatre Company
A double bill of ‘Footprints in Jazz’ and ‘Touches of Miles’, both accompanied by live jazz musicians, adding panache and class to the evening.
Qudus Onikeku & The QDance Company: Re:Incarnation
High level energy, intense colour and loud sound! A non-stop assault on the senses!
Compelling: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Erina Takahashi brought to her rendition of Giselle, a delicacy, intimacy, and freshness… searing dramatisation of the doomed woman
London City Ballet: Resurgence
The highlight of the company’s inaugural programme is undoubtedly Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade.
The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition
The standard of dancing was superb, the gold medal being taken by Antonia Maria Cramb, currently training at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Wing Chun: an extraordinary evening of martial arts and dance
A perfect blend of dance, drama and martial arts… Some of the martial arts sequences in Wing Chun leave one breathless
A Night with Janis Joplin
a wonderful evening of blues and rock nostalgia, reliving the singer’s tragically short 27 years of sex, drugs, and rock and roll stardom.
Crazy Smooth: In My Body
This is a group of fierce individuals, each with their own style and story, and yet their ensemble work is outstanding
National Youth Dance Company: Wall
The dancers are outstanding. Their coherence was stunning, creating visual effects by moving as a group, shaping and reshaping
Bacchae: Prelude to a Purge by Marlene Monteori Freitas
Bacchae will stay with me for a long time… but sadly not for the right reasons. And I am still left with the question: Why?