Hard-hitting contemporary themes dominate Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Swan Lake (Loch na hEala)
Poetry, beauty, mystery and folklore; political and moral corruption, religious superstition and abuse
Sir Peter Wright’s Birmingham Nutcracker serves up a festive treat
Even the Stahlbaum’s bedecked living room got a round of applause as the curtain first rose.
Global dance names and emerging local artists at the Hong Kong Arts Festival 2017
The dance programme at the 2017 Hong Kong Arts Festival is packed with quality performers. The headlines are naturally taken by the three big visitors: the Bayerisches Staatsballett and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch from Germany, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal from Canada. There much more too, though, including plenty of local dance-making talent on … Read more
Hong Kong Ballet and West Kowloon Cultural District collaborate on Choreographer & Composer Lab
A platform to open dialogue between the worlds of dance and music.
Energy and colour from Cloud Gate 2
Beckoning is a dance that’s colourful in just about every possible way
A magnificent theatrical evening: Akram Khan’s Giselle
It delivers on every level, as do the company who fully engaged both physically and emotionally
What is happiness? Umanoove/Didy Veldman’s The Happiness Project
Packed with fabulous and absorbing dance as Veldman and her outstanding cast explore ideas of happiness
The Royal Swedish Ballet recreate Bournonville’s Ponte Molle
Bournonville returns to his beloved Italy for a light-hearted love story and, naturally, an excuse to dance.
Questions of identity to the fore in Quang Kien Van’s Lunar Shadows
Questions of identity and belonging give plenty of food for thought.
A revisioned and meaty Don Quixote from the Semperoper Ballet
A revisioned plot now offers five meaty principal roles, generous in both dance and characterisation.