Ballet Black: Shadows
Ballet Black have had a difficult year having to relocate to West London. It doesn’t show in performance, however.
UK
The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
At the curtain call, the audience greets Sir Peter Wright, his 99th birthday days away. Fiction and reality touch lightly. The ballet’s tradition no longer distant.
London City Ballet in Rebirth: Page, Robbins, Chu, Ratmansky
The company just gets better and better. The eleven dancers were outstanding in their grace, fluidity, musicality and interpretation
ACE Dance and Music: TWAWSI – The World as We See It
The ACE dancers are outstanding in both works. Their finesse, precision, interpretation, technique, and sheer danceability, are amongst the best…
The Royal Ballet: Perspectives (Balanchine, Marston, Peck)
“A triple-bill that’s classy and classic… Perspectives really is a cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all.”
S-E-D/Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy
Eyal’s Into the Hairy for her company, S-E-D, depicts a strange world, one whose inhabitants are disconcertingly humanoid, but not quite human
On the Other Earth: The Digital Dream
High-tech projectors pulse like a digital nervous system. This is choreographer Wayne McGregor’s rabbit hole, his twenty-first-century Alice in Wonderland.
Osipova/Linbury
A super programme, the highlight being the return of Jo Strømgren’s The Exhibition, a tale of the accidental meeting of two people in a gallery
Justin Talplacido Shoulder: ANITO
The programme promises ‘dance theatre.’ What unfolds is closer to an ecological fever dream.
Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius
The whole work is a feast of mobile bodies, the inventive movement sometimes jagged and sharp, sometimes wonderfully fluid.
When technology learns to see – Wayne McGregor: Infinite Bodies
The true subject of Infinite Bodies is not technology but seeing itself. AI is not only creating art; it is learning to see