ZooNation Youth Company: Lights Out
The seventeen young dancers, including two who can’t be in their teens yet, all already hip-hop dancers of calibre… sweep the audience away
Gravity & Other Myths: Ten Thousand Hours
During the show itself, there’s a lot of smiling, irreverence and poking fun at each other. It almost feels like play. You just know they are having a good time
Dance of many colours at Colours with Cie Amala Dianor
Here was dance of every shade… and all with not so much a smile on its face as a huge grin
Colours opens with an Akram Khan premiere: Gauthier Dance in Turning of Bones
Lines and patterns form, break and reform anew, Feet stomp arms whirl, torsos arc backwards… As the tension builds, the power of the group is tremendous
Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet
I can’t think of a single thing that I would want to change… The dancing, choreography and immersive visuals are all outstanding
Sol León and Paul Lightfoot present contemporary choreographers in Munich
Jeannette Andersen talks to Sol León and Paul Lightfoot about how they chose the other choreographers, how it is to create as a team…
The joy of dancing: Cie Amala Dianor in Munich
Level up & M&M was one of these rare performances that made you dance all the way home. A
A dream evening: Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Dream Ballets
Carousel, Allegro, Oklahoma! A fine evening, full of variety, colour and wonderful dance; a couple of hours to put a smile on anyone’s face
Paris Opera Junior Ballet
The programme of four well-chosen works by director, José Martinez, showed a company of versatile young professionals.
In a different realm: BORDA by Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
A very interesting piece revealing two completely different worlds, a white slow moving one full of pain and a colorful fast moving one full of joy
Ballet Central
The company presented four works with a reconstruction of Frederick Ashton’s early Foyer de Danse that held the most interest.