David Mead 
Not a linear narrative, Oscar looks back at key moments in Wilde’s life and relationships, revisiting the glittering world he once inhabited, and then at the effects of his time in Reading Gaol.
Andamiro Art Company and choreographer Lee Dongha from Korea, and White Wave Dance, Brooklyn-based but led by Korean artistic director Young Soon Kim
Ad Libitum is about the desire to create, to step outside oneself, to expand. And that’s precisely what it delivers. The effort and intensity throughout from both really was something special.
Three ballets, very different in style and mood: Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum, Alexei Ratmansky’s Solitude, George Balanchine’s Bourrée Fantasque
As in Mazurkas, everyone performed with superb assurance. There was power, there was grace, there was beauty. Join draws you in and never lets go.
The new works that premiered at this year’s Fall Fashion Gala, including Jennifer Archibald’s terrific Shared Rain, alongside two from previous years
Some gentle ribbing of the art form from Pony Cam, a Ratmansky from Miami City Ballet, and Australian Ballet in Stephanie Lake’s Seven Days
Antony Tudor’s Lilac Gardan, five Frederick Ashton divertissements and, most interesting and anticipated of all, Peter Wright’s one-act ballet, Summertide
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Faun is good, but Any way the wind blows, created by Hofesh Shecter for Gauthier Dance earlier this year… is quite simply terrific. And it was terrifically danced too.
In Firebird, it’s impossible to take your eyes off Francesca Velicu. Supremely flexible, her movement flows easily with a wonderful liquid beauty.
The familiar strains of Tchaikovsky’s famous score evoke mystery and magic. They transport you into another world even before the curtain rises.