Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia
Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens bring elegance and class to Peter Farmer’s Rhineland village, with the final pas de deux the icing on the cake
David Mead
A tale of forbidden love: Northern Ballet’s The Little Mermaid
The excellent Saeka Shirai makes it dramatically clear just how isolated Marilla is. The pain she feels with every step is etched on her whole body.
A triple bill to thrill: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Into the Music
A wonderfully varied evening…quite outstanding dancing, rounded off with the fireworks of Uwe Scholz’s The Seventh Symphony
Dance and music in a Bloomsbury oasis: Garden Unlocked
The dance and music seem to be shaped by the surroundings, by the architecture and space around, as well as with each other.
Ballet Black celebrates twenty years
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonOctober 19, 2022 Twenty-one years ago, Cassa Pancho founded Ballet Black with the aim of giving a voice to black and Asian dancers. But as the voiceover to Say It Loud, created by Pancho and the dancers to celebrate the company’s twentieth anniversary, tells us, initially, “No-one really noticed us. … Read more
A meditation on humanity: The Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage
It looks insanely beautiful. Pite’s choreography ebbs and flows again and again as it sweeps across the stage to Górecki’s evocative music
Men in Motion returns. A conversation with creator, Ivan Putrov
“It all began with a dream, I guess,” says Putrov, who explains that then, as now, the idea was to showcase the development of men in ballet
Chunky Move & Restless Dance Theatre: Rewards for the Tribe
Five dancers attempt to achieve perfect form, represented by Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man while interacting with colourful Mondrian-like objects
A picture of people who breathe and feel, suffer and love: Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land comes to Birmingham Royal Ballet
In conversation with the choreographer’s assistant, Cora Bos-Kroese, ahead to the company’s first ever staging of a Kylián work
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Hotel promises darkness with a dash of humour in a meeting of dance and film
A conversation with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and BRB principal dancer Tzu-Chao Chou
Stylish and dark. Rambert in Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby
Full of familiar moments and familiar characters in familiar settings, and sometimes surprisingly deeply thoughtful