Uncovering Taiwan’s lost dances – Palamal: Fire Festival
The ensemble sing as they dance. It’s a choir of voices that really is rather moving. It’s a hot iron that forges tribal strength and unity
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
Andrew Skeels creates new work with Bayerisches Staatsballett
Despite knee-pads and sore muscles – the dancers said that Skeels’ style is hard on a ballet trained body – the studio at times reverberated with laughter.
A well of seething darkness: Mark Bruce Company’s Frankenstein
A “superb piece of dance theatre that comes with all the Gothic surrealness and cinematic qualities that Bruce is known for”
Focus Dance Company 2024
Six works by students alongside Self-Portrait by Hung Tsai-hsi and Hofesh Shechter’s powerful In Your Rooms. The dancing was top drawer
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano
Paris Opera Ballet: La Fille mal gardée
Hortense Millet-Maurin, a tiny spitfire of a dancer who has a deft touch with comedy and big eloquent eyes, was a witty Lise.
Sydney Dance Company: Ascent
classic contemporary dance, a work of conceptual dance/art and a breakdance-inspired close, all invested with Antipodean energy and commitment
Moments in relationships and something of ourselves: Pett|Clausen-Knight on IMAGO
Maggie Foyer talks to James Pett and Travis Clausen-Knight, whose IMAGO receives its UK premiere on April 26 and 27.
Balanchine, Forsythe and Foniadakis in Hong Kong Ballet’s The Rule Breakers
A triple-bill of Balanchine’s Serenade, Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and the new Strangelove by Andonis Foniadakis
Something special: Syncopation
Syncopation deserves to be picked-up and transferred to the West End. Seldom have two performers, or a musical play, deserved it more.