The scene of tomorrow: International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart winners on tour
The six works on this year’s tour certainly live up the requirement to be “original, imaginative, unique and… display unusual achievement.”
David Mead
Compagnie Leïla Ka: Triptyque
Leïla Ka’s choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability
The Royal Ballet: Perspectives (Balanchine, Marston, Peck)
“A triple-bill that’s classy and classic… Perspectives really is a cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all.”
S-E-D/Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy
Eyal’s Into the Hairy for her company, S-E-D, depicts a strange world, one whose inhabitants are disconcertingly humanoid, but not quite human
Osipova/Linbury
A super programme, the highlight being the return of Jo Strømgren’s The Exhibition, a tale of the accidental meeting of two people in a gallery
Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius
The whole work is a feast of mobile bodies, the inventive movement sometimes jagged and sharp, sometimes wonderfully fluid.
Amina Khayyam Dance Company: Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter
Amina Khayyam looks at how women impose thoughts of what is ‘correct’ on other women and perpetuate patriarchal cultural expectations
Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light
Dada Masilo’s Salomé lasts just thirty minutes but everything is here… Desire, power and passion are everywhere. The stage is full of sexual tension.
A new Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre
Radlett Centre, Radlett, HertfordshireOctober 28, 2025 It seems to be said every year, but Christmas really does seem to come earlier and earlier. This year’s first sighting of the festive ballet favourite that is The Nutcracker came at the neatly-appointed 300-seat Radlett Centre in Hertfordshire in the shape of a brand-new production from New English … Read more
A treat for young and old: Northern Ballet’s Little Red Riding Hood
The Wolf is hungry, famished, in fact, but rather than Little Red and Grandma being on the menu, he’s more interested in cakes and honey
Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu: Deciphers
Much remains hidden although it is, “Full of excellent physicality and the duo, each in their own way tremendous dancers, clearly have a lot to say.”