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
Nicola Claire
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.
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