Europe
Opera-ballet on an epic scale: Opera and Ballett Zürich in Messa da Requiem
Birth and death are joined in one eternal cycle
Jessica Xuan is truly supernatural in Dutch National Ballet’s Giselle
Strips away any vestige of fussiness and sentimentality
Joyfulness mixes with solitude, fear and insecurity: KDV Dance Ensemble in Las Casas Invisibles
A patchwork of ideas and personal memories
A beautiful story now told in compelling dance: John Neumeier’s The Glass Menagerie
Alina Cojocaru has all the fragility and otherworldliness required of Laura