Being apart, being together: Mohamed Toukabri’s The Power (of) The Fragile
“Touching and uplifting… An intimate, tender, beautifully drawn portrait of mother and son… It pictures a relationship that not only survives but thrives”
Next Generation Festival: Rambert School
Six new pieces performed by the third-years, alongside two award-winning works by noted choreographers danced by the second-years.
Next Generation Festival: The Royal Ballet School
An super evening with the high spots being the clownery and of Kylián’s Sechs Tänze and the classicism of Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour.
42nd Street. Irresistible. A show to lift the spirits.
Jammed with great music and great dance, it’s a show that will leave you with a big grin on the face and humming its fabulous tunes
English National Ballet’s Cinderella-in-the-round
Love of the pure, optimistic kind does matter in Christopher Wheeldon’s production. There is, in fact, not just one love story, but two…
BRB2 in Carlos Acosta’s Classical Selection
A fine evening and a fine initiative that deserves to succeed. Yet more evidence of the excellent work Carlos Acosta is doing in Birmingham
Next Generation Festival: McNicol Ballet Collective in Devotions
Andrew McNicol is a choreographer who clearly understands… the music he is using. He obviously also very much believes in classical ballet
Next Generation Festival: Finnish National Ballet Youth Company
We see young dancers testing their technical skills, testing the waters in emotional encounters… A joy to watch.
A new McGregor and a riveting Anastasia from The Royal Ballet
Wayne McGregor’s new and elegantly clean ‘Untitled, 2023’, Christopher Wheeldon’s ‘Corybantic Games’, and Natalia Osipova as Anna Anderson
Three generations of dances in a super Birmingham Royal Ballet mixed bill
A huge welcome back for Apollo, remarkably now only five years from the hundredth anniversary of its creation
A Scottish ‘Swan Lake’: The Swan of Salen by Ballet Folk and The Willow Trio
A beautiful story… a production that sits very comfortably within ballet, Gaelic and folk traditions, bringing them together as equals.