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.
Nicola Claire
Wayne McGregor and Ben Cullen Williams: A Body for Harnasie
A reimagined concert production of Karol Szymanowski’s ballet score Harnasie. It’s a strange production; certainly an unusual way of presenting dance
INK, Play for Two by Dimitris Papaioannou
Worked for those in the audience who could climb inside his imagination and make their own story from what he was showing us.
Latin flair: São Paulo Dance Company
All three pieces call for a great deal of ensemble work, executed with such control and precision that at times they seemed to be come a single entity.
A classic classic: English National Ballet’s Giselle
A pleasure to watch in every respect: the dancing is a joy, and the costumes and sets some of the best around.
A Gothic delight: Matthew Bourne’s Edward Scissorhands
Trumps both The Royal Ballet and the English National Ballet’s traditional Christmas Nutcrackers… a Christmas fairytale like no other
Powerlessness, politics and pulsating dance: Company MEK’s Father Politics
I have rarely seen choreography that speaks a message so clearly, so profoundly, and so directly.
The Snowman
Taking my seat with the real audience, my two grandchildren, the excitement in the auditorium was palpable. It doesn’t disappoint
BalletBoyz: England on Fire
The dancers are talented and committed. They bring to the stage control and technique that contrasts starkly with the chaos the piece portrays.
Malevo: dance and music to blow you away
The drummers coalesce into a pulsating oneness of movement, dance, and drumming. The pounding rhythm gets inside you and sweeps you along
Lore by James Wilton Dance
There are lots of lifts and combinations. Unfortunately, they are repeated and repeated in sequences that themselves also become repetitive