Staatsballett Berlin: Symphony in C, Fearful Symmetries
The formal beauty, purity and technical virtuosity of Balanchine, and the constant state of flux and harmonious chaos of Christian Spuck’s new creation
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Luck/Unluck with Gauthier Dance
In new works by Hofesh Shechter and Aszure Barton, the company’s dancers were fabulous and mesmerising, and sucked us into two strange worlds almost devoid of references to reality, but full of emotion
Ahoi: an evening of swing, acrobatics and 1930s glamour
Ahoi is built around the concept of being on a cruise and takes the audience on an immersive journey aboard a luxury liner of the 1930s
A ‘lost’ Bausch plus van Manen, Volpi and Peck: Hamburg Ballet in The Times Are Racing
Pina Bausch’s ‘Adagio’, reconstructed only in 2024 having not been performed for 50 years, plus Hans van Manen’s ‘Variations for Two Couples’, Demis Volpi’s ‘The thing with feathers’, and Justin Peck’s title work
Balanchine and Morau, Preljocaj and Xie Xin: Hamburg Ballet’s Fast Forward
From George Balanchine’s Serenade to Xie Xin’s The Moon in the Ocean, via Marcos Morau’s Totentanz and Angelin Preljiocaj’s Annonciation.
Hamburg Ballet: Nijinsky
Not a documentary, not a narrative account of his life. Neumeier rather calls it a biography of the soul, of the “feelings and states of the human condition.”
School of the Hamburg Ballet: Erste Schritte
An evening featuring the whole school, and culminating with John Neumeier’s Yondering, which explores themes of innocence and adventure
Tanztriennale: Fábio (Krayze) Januário’s Musseque
Musseque highlights the joy and strength found in moving together. It’s a celebration of people, of home, of Angola. It’s a work of belonging. Plus a look back at Tanztriennale generally.
Tanztriennale 2026: Chiara Bersani in Seeking Unicorns
She pauses. Looks. Smiles. There’s a laugh. She moves herself between the legs of one lady watching. Warm smiles are exchanged
Tanztriennale: Counter Balance and a ballet-hip hop fusion
As Reiko Ohta and Jospeh Simon play with the attitudes and aesthetics of the two dance forms, Routines doesn’t just bring them together, it blends and fuses them.
Hamburg Ballet in Alexei Ratmansky’s new Wunderland
Act One is based on Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Act Two on Alice Through the Looking Glass. In a ballet of around two hours dancing, it’s a lot to pack in.