English National Ballet’s Swan Lake-in-the-round
Sangeun Lee had emotion in spades, her sharp-edged Odile contrasting starkly with her soft, sad, Odette
Nicola Claire
Scottish Ballet: A Streetcar Named Desire
There is something special about watching Blanche, danced superbly by Marge Hendrick, on her self-destruct journey in the language of dance
Annie Hanauer Dance: A space for all our tomorrows
A show that looks at utopia through the lens of disability… about collective imagining and disabled dreaming
Boy Blue’s Cycles
Barbican Theatre, LondonMay 1, 2024 Cycles, performed by pioneers of hip-hop, Boy Blue, is a powerhouse of a performance. It depicts the cycles of nature: day and night, time and season, tides and rhythms, and birth and death. The dancers are superb, highly talented and skilled hip-hop performers. The piece is introduced with a motion-sway … Read more
Lîla Dance: Fault Lines
The piece sets out to challenge and empower people to make environmental changes now. That it achieves its aims is unquestionable.
A symphony of young and old: ZooNation Youth and the Company of Elders
The sheer delight of the performers washed across the footlights, embracing the audience in a continuous hug
Taiwan comes to the Coronet
A season presenting over 30 artists. In Second Body by Anarchy Dance Theatre, Chao Ting-ting was beautifully graceful and fluid
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
A well of seething darkness: Mark Bruce Company’s Frankenstein
A “superb piece of dance theatre that comes with all the Gothic surrealness and cinematic qualities that Bruce is known for”
Something special: Syncopation
Syncopation deserves to be picked-up and transferred to the West End. Seldom have two performers, or a musical play, deserved it more.
Wayne McGregor: Autobiography
The dancing was outstanding… McGregor’s choreography, or it is AI choreography, is creative, innovative, and exciting to watch. Until it isn’t.