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
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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
Lore by James Wilton Dance
There are lots of lifts and combinations. Unfortunately, they are repeated and repeated in sequences that themselves also become repetitive
Change Tempo (Su Pin-wen and Alexandre Fandard)
Su Pin-wen (蘇品文) and Alexandre Fandard are engaging performers with considerable stage presence. Yet both works, failed to deliver fully
Message in a Bottle, extraordinary and totally unforgettable
A complete unity, where everything is slotted-in and tied together so profoundly that it is hard to imagine them as separate entities
An evening of many moods and fine dance from Ailey 2
Pick of the evening was Robert Battle’s The Hunt. About the predatory side of human nature, it’s intense. Very intense.
Tavaziva Dance: Boy’s Khaya
Boy’s Khaya has dance, music and spoken text but the elements do not always find themselves on the same page.
A feast of outdoor dance: Derby Festé 2023
It was a very impressive two days programming. Noise, colour and community. Innovation and creativity.
Dance up close. Ballet Nights launches in London’s Docklands
A new season mixing classical, neoclassical and contemporary dance, well-known works and new choreography gets off to a fine start
Keeping the flag flying: Kyiv City Ballet
Most interesting of the fifteen excerpts and pieces danced, were the unknown. The undoubted highlight was Servant of the Muse by Volha Kastsel
Solène Weinachter: After All
An exploration of mortality and how we say goodbye, it is very poignant and thoughtful at times, but there’s also a lot of fun along the way.