Navigating growing up: Jasmin Vardimon Company in ALiCE
A visual treat and the dancing really is fantastic, even if nothing is quite what it seems, and even if it left me not really any the wiser about who Alice is
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Ballet Theatre UK: Beauty and the Beast
Miriam Konnerth is a sweet-natured Beauty. Gentle and caring, she dances lyrically but with a gently restrained freedom.
Two cities, three Mayerlings
Mayerling in London and Paris. “Muntagirov is a rare Rudolph, one whose decline is as agonizingly real as it is exquisitely danced.”
Ghoulish fun: Arthur Pita’s Ten Sorry Tales
Almost always irreverent and bizarre, sometimes ghoulish, sometimes colourful, often a little surreal, each story is also very human.
Developing new hip hop dance theatre: Breakin’ Convention’s Emerge+See
It was seriously impressive to see just how far the ideas and pieces had progressed in their few short weeks of development
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Coppélia
Tyrone Singleton and Céline Gittens bring elegance and class to Peter Farmer’s Rhineland village, with the final pas de deux the icing on the cake
A tale of forbidden love: Northern Ballet’s The Little Mermaid
The excellent Saeka Shirai makes it dramatically clear just how isolated Marilla is. The pain she feels with every step is etched on her whole body.
Chiara Bersani: chasing magic, Seeking Unicorns
By reaching toward what is imperceptible, unknown and unseen, Bersani implicates herself in a new and magical form of becoming
A triple bill to thrill: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Into the Music
A wonderfully varied evening…quite outstanding dancing, rounded off with the fireworks of Uwe Scholz’s The Seventh Symphony
Dance and music in a Bloomsbury oasis: Garden Unlocked
The dance and music seem to be shaped by the surroundings, by the architecture and space around, as well as with each other.
Ballet Black celebrates twenty years
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonOctober 19, 2022 Twenty-one years ago, Cassa Pancho founded Ballet Black with the aim of giving a voice to black and Asian dancers. But as the voiceover to Say It Loud, created by Pancho and the dancers to celebrate the company’s twentieth anniversary, tells us, initially, “No-one really noticed us. … Read more