London City Ballet in Rebirth: Page, Robbins, Chu, Ratmansky
The company just gets better and better. The eleven dancers were outstanding in their grace, fluidity, musicality and interpretation
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ACE Dance and Music: TWAWSI – The World as We See It
The ACE dancers are outstanding in both works. Their finesse, precision, interpretation, technique, and sheer danceability, are amongst the best…
The Royal Ballet: Perspectives (Balanchine, Marston, Peck)
“A triple-bill that’s classy and classic… Perspectives really is a cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all.”
S-E-D/Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy
Eyal’s Into the Hairy for her company, S-E-D, depicts a strange world, one whose inhabitants are disconcertingly humanoid, but not quite human
On the Other Earth: The Digital Dream
High-tech projectors pulse like a digital nervous system. This is choreographer Wayne McGregor’s rabbit hole, his twenty-first-century Alice in Wonderland.
Osipova/Linbury
A super programme, the highlight being the return of Jo Strømgren’s The Exhibition, a tale of the accidental meeting of two people in a gallery
Justin Talplacido Shoulder: ANITO
The programme promises ‘dance theatre.’ What unfolds is closer to an ecological fever dream.
Sung Im Her: 1 Degree Celsius
The whole work is a feast of mobile bodies, the inventive movement sometimes jagged and sharp, sometimes wonderfully fluid.
Nederlands Dans Theater & Complicité: Figures in Extinction
A definite must-see, jam packed with significance and meaning which is often sadly lacking in many other ultra-abstract performances.
Amina Khayyam Dance Company: Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter
Amina Khayyam looks at how women impose thoughts of what is ‘correct’ on other women and perpetuate patriarchal cultural expectations
Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light
Dada Masilo’s Salomé lasts just thirty minutes but everything is here… Desire, power and passion are everywhere. The stage is full of sexual tension.