Displacement: hard hitting dance that embodies Syria’s tragedy
Presents the fight to survive with more potency than a thousand strident headlines.
A summer evening in the park with The Royal Ballet School
MacMillan’s Concerto: utterly beguiling and quite spine-tingling
Sweeping, swelling dance: les ballets C de la B in Nicht Schlafen
Relationships flit back and forth like summer lightning on a dry night crackling with tension
A strange community and an experience full on: Alexander Ekman’s Rooms
A weird gated community of characters where each solo, duet or trio occupies a bijou pad
Chun Wing Lam: a Hongkonger in Paris
Hong Kong-born Chun Wing is not just an exception, but the first Chinese dancer at the Paris Opera.
Three short ballets from Birmingham Royal Ballet
The gilded topsail of the evening was John Cranko’s marvellous comedy, Pineapple Poll
Comic Cuts and a feast of summer dance coming soon at Elmhurst Ballet School
David Mead looks ahead to Summer Variations, this year’s Elmhurst Ballet School’s summer shows with school artistic director, Robert Parker, and David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, who has created his first work for the students. In Birmingham, full-time dance training means Elmhurst Ballet School, Britain’s oldest vocational dance school, now fast approaching its … Read more
Visualising the music: Richard Alston Dance Company
Making dance for almost 50 years, still a master of his craft.
Dresden Semperoper Ballett capture the persuasive power of Kylian’s Forgotten Land
Expectancy, fraught with hopes and fears
Pite, Preljocaj and Scottish Ballet
Pite’s E,mergence is another strong, gorgeously constructed work, brim-full of ideas and images