Balanchine/Liang/Petipa: Singapore Dance Theatre, Masterpiece in Motion
Ambitious programming and one well worth watching
Reviews
Displacement: hard hitting dance that embodies Syria’s tragedy
Presents the fight to survive with more potency than a thousand strident headlines.
A summer evening in the park with The Royal Ballet School
MacMillan’s Concerto: utterly beguiling and quite spine-tingling
Sweeping, swelling dance: les ballets C de la B in Nicht Schlafen
Relationships flit back and forth like summer lightning on a dry night crackling with tension
A strange community and an experience full on: Alexander Ekman’s Rooms
A weird gated community of characters where each solo, duet or trio occupies a bijou pad
Three short ballets from Birmingham Royal Ballet
The gilded topsail of the evening was John Cranko’s marvellous comedy, Pineapple Poll
Visualising the music: Richard Alston Dance Company
Making dance for almost 50 years, still a master of his craft.
Dresden Semperoper Ballett capture the persuasive power of Kylian’s Forgotten Land
Expectancy, fraught with hopes and fears
Pite, Preljocaj and Scottish Ballet
Pite’s E,mergence is another strong, gorgeously constructed work, brim-full of ideas and images
Daft, thought-provoking, moving and utterly sincere: Plan B for Utopia
Funny, occasionally daft even, thought provoking and moving