The Snowman
Taking my seat with the real audience, my two grandchildren, the excitement in the auditorium was palpable. It doesn’t disappoint
Van Huynh Company: Re:birth
A collage of recollected impressions and sensations, and to a lesser extent emotions, of the refugee experience
If ever a wiz there was: Ballet Theatre UK’s The Wizard of Oz
A joyful two hours. Light, entertaining and wonderfully optimistic. And sometimes, that’s precisely what’s needed
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan return with a work that journeys into another realm
Artistic director and choreographer Cheng Tsung-lung talks about Lunar Halo, in which dancers become symbols of struggles, desires, hope, love
Brought to vivid life. A classic remastered: The Red Shoes
Beautifully re-mastered, Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes has lost nothing of its power after 75 years. If anything it has gained it.
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.