Three generations of dances in a super Birmingham Royal Ballet mixed bill
A huge welcome back for Apollo, remarkably now only five years from the hundredth anniversary of its creation
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A Scottish ‘Swan Lake’: The Swan of Salen by Ballet Folk and The Willow Trio
A beautiful story… a production that sits very comfortably within ballet, Gaelic and folk traditions, bringing them together as equals.
People, secrets, life, the office: Si Rawlinson’s Saving Face
All four performers are outstanding. Fabulous dancers but great actors too. They draw you in. You become invested in them and their relationships.
GradPro National Showcase 2023
Who would be a judge? The dancers certainly gave the panel a difficult task. But when the results came in, it was the year of the men
Elmhurst Ballet Company: Legacy
An evening that looked acknowledged history but that also looked forward with new choreography, and dancers about to enter the professional world
Rhiannon Faith Company: Drowntown
A thought-provoking dance theatre production that explores themes of loneliness, anxiety, desperation, helplessness and suicide
From women’s suffrage to fascism. Venus by Impermanence
The undoubted highlight of this quadruple bill of new work is Venus, which holds up a mirror to the life of Suffragette Mary Richardson
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani: Skid and SAABA
Damien Jalet’s vision of dance is borderless, and he seems the right man to place dance on a slippery slope and stimulate questions
Passions on the boil: Pioneers by Ballet Black
Isabela Coracy, as Nina Simone, dressed in a gown of African print holds centre stage playing the dynamics with commanding presence
Kontemporary Korea: A Triple Bill of K:Dance
The third programme in this Festival of Korean Dance delivered… skilled craft, intellectual rigour and something distinctive and unusual
Choi x Kang Project and Art Project BORA in a Korean double-bill
A Complementary Set: Disappearing with an Impact by Choi x Kang Project is more of an experimental performance than a dance show…