Malevo: dance and music to blow you away
The drummers coalesce into a pulsating oneness of movement, dance, and drumming. The pounding rhythm gets inside you and sweeps you along
Reviews
Ballet Nights 002
David Dawson’s Metamorphosis 1… as hypnotic as the music, following it in building in intensity and complexity.
Telling the Windrush story: Island Movements
Part of the Black British Ballet project, a ballet that seeks to explore the lives and stories of the Windrush Generation and their families
Bayerisches Staatsballett: Alice in Wonderland
Its weird, dream-like story and imaginative set… explode with colour; and it offers multiple roles to show off dancers.
Steps and words. Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell in The Limit
Kristen McNally’s light touch choreography fits perfectly. Nestling beautifully with the text, it’s sometimes playful, occasionally spiky, always colloquial.
The Royal Ballet: Anemoi, The Cellist
The Cellist: a fine piece of dance drama, and a fitting memoir of a brilliant and popular musician whose career and life were so tragically cut short.
John Cranko: in Memoriam
A look at ‘John Cranko: Tanzvisionär’ a new book of interviews with people associated with Cranko; and the 2nd edition of Ashley Killar’s biography
Exploring a taboo: Forbidden by Aditi Mangaldas
Mangaldas commands the stage throughout. Forbidden is a journey, her journey based on personal emotions and experiences.
Divine. Pam Tanowitz and David Lang’s Song of Songs
Stripped of emotional content… her choreography is cool, refined and restrained. It’s also intensely beautiful.
Sound and movement: MOS by Ioanna Paraskevopoulou
They create their soundtrack using a variety of everyday objects and materials scattered around the stage that looks like a… children’s playground
The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
You can’t deny it’s a crowd-pleaser. Sunny and warm, full of dancing bullfighters, gypsies and other locals, Don Quixote is real feelgood ballet