A night of the best in ballet: Ballet Icons Gala
New and unfamiliar works rub shoulders with old favourites, with Sergio Bernal’s The Thinker the unexpected highlight of a super evening
New and unfamiliar works rub shoulders with old favourites, with Sergio Bernal’s The Thinker the unexpected highlight of a super evening
The dancing was outstanding… McGregor’s choreography, or it is AI choreography, is creative, innovative, and exciting to watch. Until it isn’t.
Could human dancers have a symbiotic, cybernetics-like relationship with machines, the outcome being a new form of contemporary dance?
Swan Lake is the ballerina’s ballet and Nuñez was perfection from her first grand jeté to her final death plunge.
While the company has always projected a sense of excitement and even danger… alas, little was evident in this quadruple bill.
It’s one of those very rare pieces that doesn’t just grow on you with repeated viewings but that seems to reveal more and spark new thoughts with each revisiting
A reimagined concert production of Karol Szymanowski’s ballet score Harnasie. It’s a strange production; certainly an unusual way of presenting dance
A show that will, in his own words, have the “colour, feel and vibrancy of Havana with the tradition and beauty of The Nutcracker.”
Ballet national de Marseille are rooted in rebellion. They are identifiable by the personal risks taken by the dancers, and by (LA) HORDE’s direction
La Bayadère is a fairytale, which the Bayerisches Staatsballett turn into big drama. But the company does not ignore the problems the ballet has
Shedding their very traditional image, the Royal Opera House has opened up unusual spaces and introduced new faces.