A deconstructed symphony of movement and music. Maud Le Pladec’s Twenty-seven perspectives
It maybe a work of mathematical abstraction, but it’s one where dance and music truly come together as one… A fascinating watch
David Mead
London City Ballet is reborn
Directed by Christopher Marney, it will return to the stage in summer 2024, touring across the UK, including a week at Sadler’s Wells that autumn.
Ballet Nights 002
David Dawson’s Metamorphosis 1… as hypnotic as the music, following it in building in intensity and complexity.
Telling the Windrush story: Island Movements
Part of the Black British Ballet project, a ballet that seeks to explore the lives and stories of the Windrush Generation and their families
Steps and words. Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell in The Limit
Kristen McNally’s light touch choreography fits perfectly. Nestling beautifully with the text, it’s sometimes playful, occasionally spiky, always colloquial.
The Royal Ballet: Anemoi, The Cellist
The Cellist: a fine piece of dance drama, and a fitting memoir of a brilliant and popular musician whose career and life were so tragically cut short.
Ballet meets rock in New English Ballet Theatre’s Genesis Dance Project
Genesis Dance Project features six choreographies to tracks by the iconic band. David Mead talks to Ruth Brill, one of the choreographers.
Exploring a taboo: Forbidden by Aditi Mangaldas
Mangaldas commands the stage throughout. Forbidden is a journey, her journey based on personal emotions and experiences.
Divine. Pam Tanowitz and David Lang’s Song of Songs
Stripped of emotional content… her choreography is cool, refined and restrained. It’s also intensely beautiful.
Sound and movement: MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
They create their soundtrack using a variety of everyday objects and materials scattered around the stage that looks like a… children’s playground
The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
You can’t deny it’s a crowd-pleaser. Sunny and warm, full of dancing bullfighters, gypsies and other locals, Don Quixote is real feelgood ballet