The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
At the curtain call, the audience greets Sir Peter Wright, his 99th birthday days away. Fiction and reality touch lightly. The ballet’s tradition no longer distant.
Theater Pforzheim: Swan Lake
I can safely say that I have never felt a swan’s breath on the back of my neck. Until now. Because that’s precisely what happened during Act Two…
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
One evening, two worlds: Dance x 2 by Dance Theater Heidelberg
‘Crash: reassembled’ by Astrid Boons, a reworking of her 2020 piece, and ‘IT’S NIGHT AGAIN’, a new work by Italian choreographer duo Panzetti/Ticconi
The scene of tomorrow: International Solo Dance Theater Festival Stuttgart winners on tour
The six works on this year’s tour certainly live up the requirement to be “original, imaginative, unique and… display unusual achievement.”
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…
Compagnie Leïla Ka: Triptyque
Leïla Ka’s choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability
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
Dancers of Tomorrow: Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Matinée in Munich
The autumn matinee of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Akademie) and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München (BJBM)
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.