Körper: Sasha Waltz at the Royal Swedish Ballet
Bodies decorate the surface, the climb and fall using the height, the length and all spaces.
David Mead
Jenna Roberts shines in Romeo and Juliet
Her awakening to love, her agonies at being forced to marry and her despair…marvellous
Tastes of dance from Taiwan coming to London and Birmingham
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre (雲門舞集), and it’s younger, lively cousin, Cloud Gate 2 (雲門2) are both due this year.
Searching for a path through postmodern dance
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Boris Charmatz in Partita 2 in Stockholm
Birmingham Royal Ballet triumph in an Ashton double
The Dream and A Month in the Country. “A triumph.”
English National Ballet to perform Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
English National Ballet release their Autumn 2016 and Spring 2017 programmes
Three world and one European premiere in Dutch National Ballet’s 2016-2017 season
A packed season with much must-see dance.
Freefalling through time
Beyond time (時間之外) by U-Theatre (優人神鼓) from Taiwan begins with a lone man rotating centre stage, his robe gathering like waves around his lower body.
Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty – A Gothic Romance
It’s with the supernatural element that he has the most fun in this production full of classic Bourne touches
The ultimate ballet love story
David Mead dips into the history of Romeo and Juliet, and reflects on why Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet continues to be an audience favourite