Sir Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes on the big screen
Bourne manages to pull off the tricky challenge of being faithful to the original while giving his production an inner life all of its own
A tale of dashing pirates and sensuous slave girls: Royal Swedish Ballet in Le Corsaire
José Martínez has given the ballet a make-over. With the important dance intact but the libretto trimmed, it is destined to become a new favourite.
Dynamo: Michael Somes A Life In The Royal Ballet
A long-overdue look at an underrated and perhaps now largely forgotten principal dancer.
New BFI exhibition celebrates 75 years of The Red Shoes
The exhibition… certainly whets the appetite for the forthcoming screening of the re-mastered film. What it lacks in quantity, it makes up for in quality
A dance of dreams: Zürich Ballett in Marcos Morau’s Nachtträume
A mesmerising piece from the dark realm of dreams inhabited by genderless creatures and a drag-queen in black sequins and a towering tiara
BalletBoyz: England on Fire
The dancers are talented and committed. They bring to the stage control and technique that contrasts starkly with the chaos the piece portrays.
New English Ballet Theatre: Genesis Dance Project and New Works
The most impressive of the works proved to be Daniela Cardim’s unashamedly neoclassical ballet to two of Bach’s harpsichord compositions
The McOnie Company’s Nutcracker at the Tuff Nutt Jazz Club
It is great fun; a show that will delight dance lovers and music lovers, young and old alike. The time flies. The dance comes pretty much non-stop
Classicism all the way in Northern Ballet’s Generations
The undoubted highlight… is Tiler Peck’s Intimate Pages. It’s full of invention and packed with steps. The dance eats up every inch of the stage.
Via Injabulo by Via Katlehong
The warmth of the dance came at a good time to counter a damp and increasingly dark London
The Mongol Khan: a “quintessential Mongol drama”
A fusion of music, dance, song, dialogue and puppetry with over 70 performers and elaborate sets and costumes, it promises to be a real spectacle.