National Taiwan University of Sport, Dance Department Graduation Performance
The evening of largely student work consisted entirely of ensemble creations with lots of excellent committed dancing
David Mead
National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica: celebrating who we are
A conversation with artistic director Marlon D. Simms about the company, and what Let’s Dance International Frontiers audiences can expect
Uncovering Taiwan’s lost dances – Palamal: Fire Festival
The ensemble sing as they dance. It’s a choir of voices that really is rather moving. It’s a hot iron that forges tribal strength and unity
Focus Dance Company 2024
Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer
Cybernetics, dance and the future? Pichet Klunchun’s Cyber Subin
Could human dancers have a symbiotic, cybernetics-like relationship with machines, the outcome being a new form of contemporary dance?
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre: Lunar Halo in Taipei
It’s one of those very rare pieces that doesn’t just grow on you with repeated viewings but that seems to reveal more and spark new thoughts with each revisiting
Bhangra Nation: a joyous celebration of music, dance and who we are
Super entertainment. It’s effervescent, the music and dance infectious, the characters relatable to. A tour is surely only a matter of time.
Varna International Ballet’s Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty
What a wonderfully beguiling Odile Martina Prefetto offered. Here was a real temptress, casting her spell, snaring her prey
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Yu Kurihara’s Aurora is light, elegant and comes with a smile that lights up the whole theatre.
A box of delights: New Works at The Royal Ballet
There is much to like, not least that all have an overt classical core… A big hurrah too for the fact that three of the pieces feature pointework…
A new Nutcracker as English National Ballet’s 75th season is announced
The 2024-25 season also includes a new work by William Forysythe as part of a Forsythe evening, and both the company’s Giselles.