South Pacific: enchanting and hugely entertaining but with a message
The music is gorgeous, the set is fabulous, there’s romance and real, fully-fleshed out characters everywhere you look
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Baroque Counterpoint: Dance@TheGrange
Shobana Jeyasingh’s Clorinda Agonistes is a dramatic tale that weaves dance successfully with opera, live music and design
Yondering into the future: The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance 2022
It was a super afternoon, but you really do have to pinch yourself to remind yourself that they are all still in their late-teens
A sparkling triumph: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote
A production… that can rightly be called a triumph… the dance was virtuosic, the speed incendiary and the vitality never flagged
London Contemporary Dance School Graduation Performance 2022
This years’ works were thought provoking and relevant with the black humour of Sam Coren’s Story Telling for Earthly Survival, coming tops
English National Ballet School’s Summer Performance
In Frederick Ashton’s Rhapsody, Rin Ishikawa’s speed, focus and attack were phenomenal.
Compañía Jesús Carmona in El Salto
It perhaps isn’t surprising to see another show purporting to examine gender fluidity but El Salto could not be more different to ¡Viva!
Gala Fiesta de la Bulería de Jerez, Mujeres de Cal y Cante
Fantastic dance but the music… so much more than accompaniment. It’s the source of everything. The emotional incentive, the rhythmical propeller
¡Viva! by Compañía Manuel Liñán
We had been promised something new and refreshing for this long-awaited Flamenco Festival, and in ¡Viva! we certainly got it.
Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonJune 20, 2022 Maggie Foyer In an atmosphere of celebration, enthusiasm and commitment, the students of Rambert School took to the Linbury stage (as part of the Next Generation Festival) in a programme dedicated to Lord John Sainsbury who, with his wife Anya, has given such sterling support to the … Read more
A super evening of many colours and emotions from New English Ballet Theatre
The company look in fine fettle. It was an evening that ran from emotionally intense and thoughtful to fizzling like the best English sparkling wine