INK, Play for Two by Dimitris Papaioannou
Worked for those in the audience who could climb inside his imagination and make their own story from what he was showing us.
Bhangra Nation: a joyous celebration of music, dance and who we are
Super entertainment. It’s effervescent, the music and dance infectious, the characters relatable to. A tour is surely only a matter of time.
Ballet Nights 004
Another evening of dance diversity: the stars shone brightly and the mystery guest made a dynamic appearance.
Varna International Ballet’s Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty
What a wonderfully beguiling Odile Martina Prefetto offered. Here was a real temptress, casting her spell, snaring her prey
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Yu Kurihara’s Aurora is light, elegant and comes with a smile that lights up the whole theatre.
Nikki Rummer in Unbroken
A brutal, brave exposure of something deeply personal. We experience it as story unfinished and too late to repair all the same.
Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Nelken
Often humorous, the dances border on grotesque, as if begging [us]… to acknowledge that the overwhelming sweetness can quickly turn into horror
A box of delights: New Works at The Royal Ballet
There is much to like, not least that all have an overt classical core… A big hurrah too for the fact that three of the pieces feature pointework…
A new Nutcracker as English National Ballet’s 75th season is announced
The 2024-25 season also includes a new work by William Forysythe as part of a Forsythe evening, and both the company’s Giselles.
Bringing Frankenstein’s monster to the dance stage
Goddard describes Frankenstein as an episodic work, “A series of romantic era tableaux, inside of which I can kind of operate as The Monster.”
Singapore’s T.H.E Dance Company in a triple bill of short works
In Un-form, all three dancers are quite compelling, their dance amazingly detailed, superbly performed and clearly with great personal meaning