Tutus and Testosterone: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Irresistible. The joke never feels thin, because the dancing underneath it is so alive. Technique is there, ego is there, bad behaviour is there
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Breakin’ Convention 2026: Friction
Contemporary dance, krump, and street-based forms intersected and overlapped in an evening that reflected the diversity of hip hop today.
AUGMENTED: Dance powered by MAM + AISOMA
The Juilliard School in New York and Rambert School in London, the wizardry of MAM + AISOMA and choreography by Wayne McGregor
Sithuniyiwe: We have been sent
A joyous evening of South African music, song and dance with Mthuthuzeli and Siphesihle November… A rare meeting of talents…
Louise Lecavalier: danses vagabondes
A 67-year-old body doing a 65-minute solo is hardly a footnote. Lecavalier, though, has a nice way of dodging the heavy halo around it.
Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg: The Great Chevalier
There is something wonderfully slippery about The Great Chevalier. At its centre is M. Chevalier, played with delicious comic authority by Louis Chevalier.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
A riot of colour and sound from the first step to the last… sumptuous gaiety, romance and a great deal of fun… a score that seems to laugh from the pit.
Yukiko Masui’s RONiN
Masui excels in crafting inventive and sharply controlled sequences in which physical precision and dramatic tension work together to powerful effect.
Don’t blink: The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Alchemies
Three works, three very different strategies, one shared demand: look at the stage, look at the people on it, and do not blink
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
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.