Nao Sakuma’s sunny ‘Goodbye’. Birmingham Royal Ballet in La Fille mal gardée
The BRB ballerina of 23 years says goodbye
Entertaining but… Hofesh Shechter Company in Grand Finale
Sadler’s Wells, London July 4, 2018 Maggie Foyer We will all eventually reach our grand finale and living such a rational age, we might think we have it all sorted. Not so, as revelationist beliefs abound, including the literal interpretations of the premillennialists, the miracle of the ‘rapture’ and the eschatology of Ezekiel speaking to … Read more
Andersson Dance and Scottish Ensemble: 11 Musicians. 5 Dancers and Bach’s Goldberg Variations
A sometimes tongue-in-cheek, irreverent commentary on the music
Paying homage to a master: Beethoven Project by Hamburg Ballett, John Neumeier
Passions ripple continually through the dance
Glimpsing the future I: The Royal Ballet School at Holland Park
A fine evening at one of London’s most pleasant venues
Forty years of the School of the Hamburg Ballet
The resemblance between school and company is striking
Clowning around: Modern circus, old tradition. My Beautiful Circus by Gifford’s Circus
Modern circus in the old tradition
Passion and tragic love in David Dawson’s Tristan + Isolde
Isolde’s brief life is a maelstrom of passionate pas de deux
Tragedy written in the stars: Birmingham Royal Ballet in Romeo and Juliet
Has a Juliet ever looked so happy as Céline Gittens did?