The Royal Ballet in Balanchine: Three Signature Works
It’s been a while since the Royal Ballet presented a Balanchine evening but it proved well worth the wait to enjoy three of Mr. B’s signature works.
Ballet Nights 007
While the seventh edition of Ballet Nights may have had the suffix ‘007,’ it fell short on James Bond-style thrills.
New works and popular revivals: The Royal Ballet 2025-26
World premieres by Wayne McGregor, Cathy Marston, Akram Khan, León-Lightfoot, and a first Royal Ballet presentation by NYCB’s Justin Peck
High altitude: Compagnie de Chaillot in Rachid Ouramdane’s Corps extrêmes
Something special and quite unique. It’s not so much what the performers do, as remarkable as that is, but how they do it; the ease, grace…
Focus Dance Company: Tempestuous
A rich and diverse programme of one masterwork, one popular revival and eight new student works… All were superbly danced.
Saburo Teshigawara: Waltz
Classical formality is trumped by the emotional surge of Romanticism as the wild passion of the triple meter overwhelms.
Northern School of Contemporary Dance: VERVE 2025
As an ensemble, they moved as one when required to do so. Individually, they were interpretive and wholly engaging.
We Wear Our Wheels With Pride by Robyn Orlin
A wonderfully energetic, colourful, and creative piece of theatre based on Zulu rickshaw drivers during South Africa’s apartheid years.
Close Up by Noé Soulier
A collaborative piece between six dancers and five musicians… Soulier explores the relationship between live music, live video and live dance.
English National Ballet 2025-26 Season
The company are set to perform works by Martha Graham and Crystal Pite, a new ballet by Kameron N. Saunders, and some old favourites
Preparing for Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring in Munich
In April, the Bayerisches Staatsballett dance Pina Basuch’s Rite of Spring. Jeannette Andersen talks to former Bausch dancers about staging the work