Qudus Onikeku & The QDance Company: Re:Incarnation
High level energy, intense colour and loud sound! A non-stop assault on the senses!
London & SE
Green Shoots: Acosta Danza Yunior makes a vibrant UK debut
The dancers are outstanding… they brought youthful energy and zest to the stage… outstanding, always fluid partnering, and depth of emotion
Compelling: Akram Khan’s Giselle
Erina Takahashi brought to her rendition of Giselle, a delicacy, intimacy, and freshness… searing dramatisation of the doomed woman
Modernity meets tradition in Lazgi by National Ballet of Uzbekistan
An unexpected surprise. The choreography is endlessly inventive, the corps moving seamlessly from interesting shape to interesting shape
London City Ballet: Resurgence
The highlight of the company’s inaugural programme is undoubtedly Kenneth MacMillan’s Ballade.
Wildly creative. Ambiguous Dance Company in The Belt – Past and Future
These Korean dancers are a force of nature. I love their audacity, their phenomenal energy and most of all, their wild, fantastic creativity
The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition
The standard of dancing was superb, the gold medal being taken by Antonia Maria Cramb, currently training at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
ZooNation: The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
The narrative itself is thin. But who cares when the characterisation is so good, the dancing so terrific, and the energy levels so stratospheric.
Ballet Nights at Cadogan Hall
A mixed bill brought, inevitably perhaps, mixed success but without a shadow of a doubt, it was worth it for Set Fast alone.
Wing Chun: an extraordinary evening of martial arts and dance
A perfect blend of dance, drama and martial arts… Some of the martial arts sequences in Wing Chun leave one breathless
State Ballet of Georgia: Swan Lake
A pleasing, traditional Swan Lake, but one that lacks characterisation and struggles for ‘wow’ factor.