Alfonso Losa & Patricia Guerrero: Alter Ego
Alter Ego may begin as a performance, its initial solos tightly staged, but as it progresses, we witness a game, a provocative meeting of sorts
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Sarasota Ballet brings Ashton home
The dancers gave generously, obviously enjoying their first time at the Royal Opera House
Vicente Amigo: Memoria de los Sentidos
Memoria de los Sentidos spurns the usual flamenco hierarchy to put the guitar at the forefront with a nod to cante and baille towards the end
Amina Khayyam Dance Company: You&Me, BIRD
Despite the dark and difficult subject matter that is domestic abuse, Khayyam and her five fellow dancers create some beautiful images
Rocío Molina: Al Fondo Riela
It ends with more fabulous guitar playing as Molina appears, dressed bizarrely as some kind of black and red insect. Have we strayed into Kafka?
Northern Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
The costumes are breathtaking, the lighting perfectly captures its changing moods and the dancing, of course, was excellent.
Juggling meets Pina Bausch in Gandini Juggling’s Smashed
The company are not content with being superb jugglers. There’s a lot of movement skills and comedic flair too
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
One couple, Breanna Foad and Thiago Pereira stood out, and it was no great surprise when Foad was named Emerging Dancer 2024
GradPro Showcase 2024
It was no surprise when Ellyne Knol, presently finishing her studies at The Conservatoire in The Hague, took the top Gail Monahan Award
A picture of humanity: Maguy Marin’s May B.
An homage to Irish dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett’s universe, but also a work that in many ways holds up a mirror to ourselves.
Ballet Black: Heroes
Laplane whose Click was such a delight, returns with a new creation, If At First, that explores heroism, a noble quality and worthy of investigation