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
Reviews
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.
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.
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.