The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
The older performers steal the show. It could easily have become over-sentimental, yet it’s all done with a beautiful light touch delicacy
A deeply thoughtful double bill from Singapore of hidden stories, unusual perspectives and struggles with life.
New work from emerging Taipei artists. Six short films, none longer than 15 minutes, and a mixed bunch in pretty much every sense of the term
With its fields of rice, sky in multiple shades of grey, and clouds slowly drifting across the mountains, the landscape provides a magnificent backdrop
A super production that fuses traditional Chinese opera with vivid digital multimedia design that brings the imaginary world to spectacular life
Poignant reminders of dance’s ability to create universes with earthly moorings but lined with stardust
It’s combination of contemporary and traditional; of history, music and movement; is unexpectedly compelling.
A look at transculturation, Pán is superbly danced. The performers come together in a delicious whole
In her dance, Ruby Chang talks to herself, questions herself. Is there one ‘woman’ or lots of ‘women’? And, where, what, who is she?
Internal, spiritual, sensual; a beautiful and mesmeric work of light and dark, or movement and stillness