Breakin’ Convention 2026: Friction
Contemporary dance, krump, and street-based forms intersected and overlapped in an evening that reflected the diversity of hip hop today.
Reviews
Rock to Heaven with Ballet of the Staatstheaters am Gärtnerplatz
“The programme did not take me anyway near heaven, but it presented a roster of very talented, young dancers”
AUGMENTED: Dance powered by MAM + AISOMA
The Juilliard School in New York and Rambert School in London, the wizardry of MAM + AISOMA and choreography by Wayne McGregor
B.DANCE (丞舞製作團隊): Net (網)
A new work from Tsai Po-cheng (蔡博丞) that responds to the turmoil facing the world and the ‘net’ of politics, media, emotions and more that divide us.
Sithuniyiwe: We have been sent
A joyous evening of South African music, song and dance with Mthuthuzeli and Siphesihle November… A rare meeting of talents…
Botis Seva and Far From the Norm with Until We Sleep in Munich
It takes place in an austere and dark enclosure… brings associations with a prison, and as the piece proceeds, perhaps the prison of a person’s life.
Taipei Capital Ballet: Play with Ballet
Four pieces by emerging choreographers selected from an open call alongside four by more experienced dance creators in an evening full of interest
Louise Lecavalier: danses vagabondes
A 67-year-old body doing a 65-minute solo is hardly a footnote. Lecavalier, though, has a nice way of dodging the heavy halo around it.
Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg: The Great Chevalier
There is something wonderfully slippery about The Great Chevalier. At its centre is M. Chevalier, played with delicious comic authority by Louis Chevalier.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
A riot of colour and sound from the first step to the last… sumptuous gaiety, romance and a great deal of fun… a score that seems to laugh from the pit.
University of Taipei Annual Performance
Choreography by faculty members, a guest appearance by dancers of Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul), and a tribute to the late Tsai Li-hua, (蔡麗華)