International Draft Works 2026
The evening comes most alive in works such as Flux by Katya Bourvis for Ballet d’Jèrri which shows how power can shift through the duet form itself
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Into The Light by PCK Dance
Following Vessel, In the Absence leaves the audience feeling oddly uplifted, sprinkling a little of its shine on us in these dark and dismal times.
Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78
Brings together surviving members of Bausch’s original 1978 cast, placing them against archive footage of their younger selves and those no longer alive.
Mayerling: A world that breaks apart up close, and the body language of ruin
Kenneth MacMillan’s ballet is built from fractured needs, twisted intimacies and bodies that say what the characters themselves cannot
Yewande 103: Many Lifetimes
The dancers use kinetic, fluid movement, which is deeply controlled, deliberate and strikingly graceful. Each coveys a sense of humility…
Ballet Nights in Richmond
The choreographic mix, emerging dancers alongside dancing stars, is what makes Ballet Nights a unique experience… the dancing was an absolute joy
Verve 2026
An excellent triple bill… a superb evening, one that showed, once again, that the NSCD is still at the top of the dance training tree
English National Ballet: Body & Soul
Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) demonstrates all the depth and subtlety which we have come to expect from this most exciting of choreographers
Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
A cornucopia of amazing dance on an evening that just kept giving. Peck is a force of nature who never losers her high-octane energy
Elmhurst Ballet Company: Odyssey
The highlight was undoubtedly the excerpt from Wayne McGregor’s Entity… The Elmhurst graduates gave it their all, and the result was electric.
Hung Dance in Push and Pull: Relationship, or else
A particular kind of relationship stands at the centre of the work… a pattern in which a man observes, handles and directs a woman’s body.