Ballett Zürich with Timeframed
Three of the evening’s four pieces were variations on the pas de deux; contrasted by a modern, energy-loaded piece for 23 dancers.
Ballet Nights 010: Decadance
An evening that brought together well-known names and Ballet Nights favourites, and featured the UK debut of Mexico’s Ballet de Monterrey.
Fish Bowl by Compagnie le Fils du Grand Réseau
The three performers are quite superb. They manipulated the audience to perfection, taking us from crying with laughter, to laughing through tears…
Gauthier Dance in Akram Khan’s Turning of Bones
A tale of love and violence, of belonging to or being expelled, of life and death, all taking place in the liminal space between reality, dream, memory…
Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator
A very appealing and always engaging 55-minute look at what it really takes to work creatively with another person
Snapshots of American Modern Dance: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Across both evenings, dialects shifted quickly, textures changed sharply, and technique kept surfacing as a through-line.
Sadiq Ali Company: Tell Me
About HIV/AIDS, Tell Me certainly leaves its mark. For all its difficult subject matter, it’s also a work that’s warm and full of hope and optimism.
Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones
The combination of Christopher Bruce and Leonard Cohen in Troubadour produces a dance magic of the sort rarely seen, spellbinding and unforgettable
Resolution 26: Hannah Todosijczuk, SynEcho, Kill Your Darlings
The dancers are committed and the themes are ambitious. What I miss is not effort, but clarity.
Bayerisches Staatsballett in Neumeier’s Illusionen – wie Schwanensee
A coming together of Swan Lake and the ill-fated King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a troubled dreamer renowned for building castles and his homosexuality
Resolution 26: Fin de Fiesta, JJ James, Lauren Scott
Three works that approach dance from very different directions. Movement functioned as performance, but also a way of listening, gathering and questioning