Travellers and particles: Voyage and Hakkō by Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
Two works with very different forms of propulsion that remind how thrilling modern dance can be when rhythm takes hold of the body and refuses to let go
Zoë Hewitt
Acosta Danza in Carlos Acosta’s Carmen: flashes of heat
Woking TheatreMay 6, 2026 Carlos Acosta’s Carmen has heat in flashes, but rarely enough pressure to make the evening catch fire. The problem is partly musical. The score suits each scene well enough, but the sections do not bite into one another. What should gather as fatal momentum often feels episodic. A tavern scene with … Read more
Tutus and Testosterone: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Irresistible. The joke never feels thin, because the dancing underneath it is so alive. Technique is there, ego is there, bad behaviour is there
Louise Lecavalier: danses vagabondes
A 67-year-old body doing a 65-minute solo is hardly a footnote. Lecavalier, though, has a nice way of dodging the heavy halo around it.
Don’t blink: The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Alchemies
Three works, three very different strategies, one shared demand: look at the stage, look at the people on it, and do not blink
International Draft Works 2026
The evening comes most alive in works such as Flux by Katya Bourvis for Ballet d’Jèrri which shows how power can shift through the duet form itself
Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78
Brings together surviving members of Bausch’s original 1978 cast, placing them against archive footage of their younger selves and those no longer alive.
Mayerling: A world that breaks apart up close, and the body language of ruin
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet is built from fractured needs, twisted intimacies and bodies that say what the characters themselves cannot
Hung Dance in Push and Pull: Relationship, or else
A particular kind of relationship stands at the centre of the work… a pattern in which a man observes, handles and directs a woman’s body.
Ballet Black: …all towards hope and Ingoma
Two works that, in different ways, speak about hope and togetherness that unfold as a conversation about what hope might mean, and what it takes for people to stand together.
Resolution 26: Antonello Sangirardi, Host Bodies, AmyFoskettDance
It was a loud night. Not in decibels, but in the way each of the three short works occupied the act of looking.