Northern School of Contemporary Dance: VERVE 2025
As an ensemble, they moved as one when required to do so. Individually, they were interpretive and wholly engaging.
Reviews
We Wear Our Wheels With Pride by Robyn Orlin
A wonderfully energetic, colourful, and creative piece of theatre based on Zulu rickshaw drivers during South Africa’s apartheid years.
Close Up by Noé Soulier
A collaborative piece between six dancers and five musicians… Soulier explores the relationship between live music, live video and live dance.
Staatsballett Berlin: Edward Clug’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Whimsical, intricate and playful… an evening where dream and reality merge, and the boundaries between love and deception blur.
A journey to the stars: The Little Prince
“A glorious journey through the improbable, which succeeds in taking the audience on a magical fantasy journey across the stars.”
Maliphantworks4
The simplicity of Maliphant’s new solo, In a Landscape, is awe inspiring… the austerity of the sculptured shapes harks back to classical Greek art.
Modernity, tradition, identity, society in a Taipei triple-bill
Nameless Practice by Chien Lin-yi (簡麟懿): “Brim-full of ideas and fabulous images… a really terrific piece that holds the attention from start to finish”
The Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
Anna Rose O’Sullivan stole the performance with depiction of a headstrong, intuitive, naïve, madly in love teenager
Sparkle, fireworks: Ballet Icons Gala 2025
A terrific evening. It was also one that probably contained more chances to see fouttées than most in the audience get in a year. No one disappointed.
In The Bushes by Léa Tirabasso
“A strange piece; and strangely compelling… thought provoking, at times humorous, highly original, if abstract-feeling dance”
Scottish Ballet: Twice-Born
Choreographically, Mbi ‘rebriths’ many classic dance movements, giving them a twist, an edge, that creates a sense of danger