Nederlands Dans Theater & Complicité: Figures in Extinction
A definite must-see, jam packed with significance and meaning which is often sadly lacking in many other ultra-abstract performances.
Amina Khayyam Dance Company: Bibi Rukiya’s Reckless Daughter
Amina Khayyam looks at how women impose thoughts of what is ‘correct’ on other women and perpetuate patriarchal cultural expectations
Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light
Dada Masilo’s Salomé lasts just thirty minutes but everything is here… Desire, power and passion are everywhere. The stage is full of sexual tension.
A new Nutcracker for New English Ballet Theatre
Radlett Centre, Radlett, HertfordshireOctober 28, 2025 It seems to be said every year, but Christmas really does seem to come earlier and earlier. This year’s first sighting of the festive ballet favourite that is The Nutcracker came at the neatly-appointed 300-seat Radlett Centre in Hertfordshire in the shape of a brand-new production from New English … Read more
Akram Khan Company in Thikra: Night of Remembering
Movement is precise, the ensemble formidable. Hair lashes through the air, sound rises from the floor, drums and chanting mix with the dry friction of sand
Dutch National Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
Alongside the love story, Rudi van Dantzig also shows how the blood feud between the families affects the whole community around them
Anders Duckworth: Little M
An enjoyable 75 minutes. My nine-year-old grandson also thought it was magical, although that, I’m afraid, passed me by.
A treat for young and old: Northern Ballet’s Little Red Riding Hood
The Wolf is hungry, famished, in fact, but rather than Little Red and Grandma being on the menu, he’s more interested in cakes and honey
Naishi Wang and Jean Abreu: Deciphers
Much remains hidden although it is, “Full of excellent physicality and the duo, each in their own way tremendous dancers, clearly have a lot to say.”
How are you? Tjimur Dance Theatre in bulabulay mun?
With a very open-minded approach… Baru Madiljin weaves ancestral memory and still lingering historical scars into the dancers’ bodies and emotions.
La Fille mal gardée: Frederick Ashton’s sunshine ballet
When Marianela Nuñez stepped on stage, it was instantly clear that she was not pretending to be Lise, she was Lise.