Taipei Capital Ballet: Play with Ballet
Four pieces by emerging choreographers selected from an open call alongside four by more experienced dance creators in an evening full of interest
Louise Lecavalier: danses vagabondes
A 67-year-old body doing a 65-minute solo is hardly a footnote. Lecavalier, though, has a nice way of dodging the heavy halo around it.
Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg: The Great Chevalier
There is something wonderfully slippery about The Great Chevalier. At its centre is M. Chevalier, played with delicious comic authority by Louis Chevalier.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
A riot of colour and sound from the first step to the last… sumptuous gaiety, romance and a great deal of fun… a score that seems to laugh from the pit.
University of Taipei Annual Performance
Choreography by faculty members, a guest appearance by dancers of Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul), and a tribute to the late Tsai Li-hua, (蔡麗華)
Of what it is to be human: Being (S) duo by Wang Yeu-kwn
While certainly about relationships, the act of uncovering and covering, the presence of two generations, also points to birth and death, and a lot between
Yukiko Masui’s RONiN
Masui excels in crafting inventive and sharply controlled sequences in which physical precision and dramatic tension work together to powerful effect.
Don’t blink: The Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s Alchemies
Three works, three very different strategies, one shared demand: look at the stage, look at the people on it, and do not blink
Dorrance Dance: The Centre Will Not Hold
The tap does not sit apart from the other styles; rather, it seems to emerge from within them
International Draft Works 2026
The evening comes most alive in works such as Flux by Katya Bourvis for Ballet d’Jèrri which shows how power can shift through the duet form itself
Chun Dance: Trace of Belief
Traditional and modern, religious and secular. All blended and overlapped in pleasing ways… But constant throughout is the human body