Don’t blink: The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Alchemies
Three works, three very different strategies, one shared demand: look at the stage, look at the people on it, and do not blink
Reviews
Dorrance Dance: The Centre Will Not Hold
The tap does not sit apart from the other styles; rather, it seems to emerge from within them
International Draft Works 2026
The evening comes most alive in works such as Flux by Katya Bourvis for Ballet d’Jèrri which shows how power can shift through the duet form itself
Chun Dance: Trace of Belief
Traditional and modern, religious and secular. All blended and overlapped in pleasing ways… But constant throughout is the human body
Into The Light by PCK Dance
Following Vessel, In the Absence leaves the audience feeling oddly uplifted, sprinkling a little of its shine on us in these dark and dismal times.
Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78
Brings together surviving members of Bausch’s original 1978 cast, placing them against archive footage of their younger selves and those no longer alive.
Polymer DMT: The Seas Between Us
Deeply thoughtful… very personal, it exposes many confusions and contradictions about identity and Taiwan’s relationship with China in particular.
Wan Sha Dance Platform presents five emerging choreographers
An evening of great variety that included hip hop, dance theatre and more experimental pieces, all around fifteen minutes in length
Focus Dance Company 2026: Sleepless Utopia
Two programmes, twelve works by company members plus pieces by the well-established Huang Yi (黃翊), and the very much emerging Yu Wan-lun (余宛倫).
National Taiwan University of Arts: 在Dˋ
A superb evening of excellent performances and very good student choreography, topped off with Toru Shimazaki’s marvellous Zero Body (臨極限).
Mayerling: A world that breaks apart up close, and the body language of ruin
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet is built from fractured needs, twisted intimacies and bodies that say what the characters themselves cannot