English National Ballet: The Forsythe Programme
Not everyone can carry off Forsythe because it’s about so much more than just steps… English National Ballet have embodied the style fully.
Reviews
Hwa Kang Dance Troupe: The Island’s Tapestry
The programme of seven short works was inspired by Taiwan’s diverse cultures and landscapes… It very much lived up to its promise.
University of Taipei dance students in a varied programme
Eddies of the Body (身‧流漫), a five-work evening, including the super Plural Bodies (複數的身體) by Tung I-fen
Taichung university graduating dance students shine
National Taiwan University of Sport at the Metropolitan Hall, TaipeiMarch 4, 2025 March to early-April is the season for the annual performances by the graduating students at Taiwan’s major university dance departments. Given the range of styles they have to master, it is always amazing just how good the standard of performance is. This year … Read more
McNicol Ballet Collective: Here & Now
McNicol uses strong ballet technique to underpin athleticism… and he’s not afraid to work on different levels, challenging his dancers at every step
A gleeful, riotous celebration: WAKE by Thisispopbaby
A cross between circus and burlesque. It thumps with energy from start to finish, and is gloriously chaotic and random
The Royal Ballet in Balanchine: Three Signature Works
It’s been a while since the Royal Ballet presented a Balanchine evening but it proved well worth the wait to enjoy three of Mr. B’s signature works.
Ballet Nights 007
While the seventh edition of Ballet Nights may have had the suffix ‘007,’ it fell short on James Bond-style thrills.
High altitude: Compagnie de Chaillot in Rachid Ouramdane’s Corps extrêmes
Something special and quite unique. It’s not so much what the performers do, as remarkable as that is, but how they do it; the ease, grace…
Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous
A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.
Saburo Teshigawara: Waltz
Classical formality is trumped by the emotional surge of Romanticism as the wild passion of the triple meter overwhelms.