The Royal Ballet: Like Water for Chocolate
As entertainment, Like Water for Chocolate succeeds. It is a rich, magical, exotic tragedy. But in terms of substance, it remains at the surface.
Zoë Hewitt
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui / Eastman: Vlaemsch (chez moi)
Picasso bent women with a brush. Holbein crushed ambassadors with a skull. Cherkaoui piles his house with dancers, books, frames, bones.
A Freudian dream: Dance Company Lasta in Naraku
From the outset the piece establishes a dissonant texture, as if pulling the audience into the fissure of a dream
Dancing City: A tapestry of crossings and contradictions
Swedish minimalism brushed against Colombian carnival, French surrealism met British street energy, children’s laughter cut through adult abstraction.
Fragments and collisions: We Should Have Never Walked On The Moon
A collaborative exploration of fragmented narratives and contemporary desires, it unfolded as a deliberately fractured whole across multiple spaces
Brigadoon: a Highland dream reawakened
McOnie’s dance drives the production, with sweeping ensemble sections, duets, and shifting formations that dazzle the eye.
The irreplaceable craft of a true performer: Tiler Peck in Little Dancer
Even during the most intense emotional sequences, Peck danced with control, intention, and above all, presence.