Compelling: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Erina Takahashi brought to her rendition of Giselle, a delicacy, intimacy, and freshness… searing dramatisation of the doomed woman
Nicola Claire
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?
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
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