IMAGO by Pett|Clausen-Knight
The choreography eloquently expresses the depth of feeling. Both men are exceptional dancers… They know their stuff, and this shows
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Reimagined but happily familiar: Coppélia by KVN Dance Company
The show is engaging from the very first second… I wish I could press ‘rewind’ to watch these again and discover a million new things.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Peter Wright’s unerring sense of theatre is evident throughout in this iconic production which premiered in 1984
Lîla Dance: Fault Lines
The piece sets out to challenge and empower people to make environmental changes now. That it achieves its aims is unquestionable.
Paco Peña: Solera
What a long way we have come since the first flamenco festival in 2003. A very pleasing prelude to this year’s festival in a couple of months.
International Draft Works
A short evening with plenty of variety, as ten choreographers, mostly still dancers themselves, were given the space to experiment.
A symphony of young and old: ZooNation Youth and the Company of Elders
The sheer delight of the performers washed across the footlights, embracing the audience in a continuous hug
Taiwan comes to the Coronet
A season presenting over 30 artists. In Second Body by Anarchy Dance Theatre, Chao Ting-ting was beautifully graceful and fluid
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
A well of seething darkness: Mark Bruce Company’s Frankenstein
A “superb piece of dance theatre that comes with all the Gothic surrealness and cinematic qualities that Bruce is known for”
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano