Luck/Unluck with Gauthier Dance
In new works by Hofesh Shechter and Aszure Barton, the company’s dancers were fabulous and mesmerising, and sucked us into two strange worlds almost devoid of references to reality, but full of emotion
Reviews
Siobhan Davies Studios: Living Image: Chapter 1
The first of four chapters over which a total of twenty artists will spend five days with Siobhan Davies’ 1977 work Sphinx, and craft their own responses
London Children’s Ballet: Anne of Green Gables
At the centre was Amelie French as Anne Shirley. Hers was a performance of remarkable grace, warmth and dramatic presence… She understood how to make movement speak
Ahoi: an evening of swing, acrobatics and 1930s glamour
Ahoi is built around the concept of being on a cruise and takes the audience on an immersive journey aboard a luxury liner of the 1930s
Still Pointless. BalletBoyz at 25
Still Pointless emphasises the ensemble. The one exception to that is exceptional and turns out to be the highlight of the show. Christopher Wheeldon’s Us…
Next Generation Festival 2026: English National Ballet School & John Cranko School
The highlight of the evening was All Long Dem Day from Marco Goecke by students from the Cranko School… The dancers were magnificent giving their all in a fully professional showing.
Next Generation Festival: Just Us Dance Theatre Apprenticeship Company
The five performers showed strong technical ability, energy and stage presence. They filled the Linbury with ease, not through scale of numbers or theatrical effects, but through concentration and sheer enjoyment in performance.
The sincerity of excess: Hideki Noda’s −320°F
The production’s apparent excess is never random. As the evening progresses, bodies begin to carry more and more of the meaning
A ‘lost’ Bausch plus van Manen, Volpi and Peck: Hamburg Ballet in The Times Are Racing
Pina Bausch’s ‘Adagio’, reconstructed only in 2024 having not been performed for 50 years, plus Hans van Manen’s ‘Variations for Two Couples’, Demis Volpi’s ‘The thing with feathers’, and Justin Peck’s title work
Balanchine and Morau, Preljocaj and Xie Xin: Hamburg Ballet’s Fast Forward
From George Balanchine’s Serenade to Xie Xin’s The Moon in the Ocean, via Marcos Morau’s Totentanz and Angelin Preljiocaj’s Annonciation.
Stephanie Lake’s Colossus: A Living Choreography
An exploration of the relationship between the individual and the collective… Each dancer remained distinct while being continuously reorganised within a larger, shifting whole.