Scottish Ballet take the honours in the 23rd National Dance Awards
A great year for Scottish Ballet who were voted Outstanding Company, also picking up two awards for Jess & Morgs’ Coppélia
Intensity and pleasure: Royal Swedish Ballet in Manon
Opera House, StockholmMay 26, 2023 Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon created in 1974, continues to weave its magic providing a slew of dramatic roles against a volatile and violent backdrop. The Royal Swedish Ballet, founded in 1773 and celebrating its 250th anniversary this year, first presented the ballet in 1980. It makes a welcome return. The central … Read more
People, secrets, life, the office: Si Rawlinson’s Saving Face
All four performers are outstanding. Fabulous dancers but great actors too. They draw you in. You become invested in them and their relationships.
GradPro National Showcase 2023
Who would be a judge? The dancers certainly gave the panel a difficult task. But when the results came in, it was the year of the men
Elmhurst Ballet Company: Legacy
An evening that looked acknowledged history but that also looked forward with new choreography, and dancers about to enter the professional world
Rhiannon Faith Company: Drowntown
A thought-provoking dance theatre production that explores themes of loneliness, anxiety, desperation, helplessness and suicide
From women’s suffrage to fascism. Venus by Impermanence
The undoubted highlight of this quadruple bill of new work is Venus, which holds up a mirror to the life of Suffragette Mary Richardson
Returning to artistic directorship: a conversation with Cathy Marston
Marston says, she hopes to “develop and nurture a creative group of individuals, where each single dancer stands out on stage.”
Staatsballett Berlin: Onegin
Onegin… thoughtful, restless, troubled, austere. A sense of deep solitude and… incapacity to open up emotionally accompanies him throughout
GöteborgsOperans Danskompani: Skid and SAABA
Damien Jalet’s vision of dance is borderless, and he seems the right man to place dance on a slippery slope and stimulate questions
Passions on the boil: Pioneers by Ballet Black
Isabela Coracy, as Nina Simone, dressed in a gown of African print holds centre stage playing the dynamics with commanding presence