LIFE: A love letter to Merce Cunningham from Gandini Juggling
As if the juggling wasn’t skilful enough, fiendish ports de bras and footwork are built up ball by ball. I can’t help thinking Merce would have approved.
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Dance Track celebrates 25 years
A look at BRB’s Dance Track as it celebrates its 25th anniversary, events to include a celebratory performance in Birmingham in May
Tamara Rojo to leave ENB for San Francisco Ballet
Tamara Rojo to join San Francisco Ballet, where she will be its first new artistic director in nearly four decades and first woman to lead the company
Mark Bruce Company returns with a triple bill of cinematic dance theatre
The show’s title work is a dance theatre tale of love, tragedy and revenge, set in a place where our phantoms roam free
A beacon of joy: Luca Silvestrini’s Protein in The Little Prince
It turns the black box theatre space into a universe of imaginative ideas… a thoroughly enjoyable journey
Béjart’s spellbinding Les Chaises headlines Programme B of the 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
The most interesting work without doubt is Béjart’s Les Chaises. Gil Roman is a fine actor while Alessandra Ferri is the powerful presence you would expect
The 16th World Ballet Festival on demand
Everything is straight out of the top drawer in the first of two programmes from the festival held in Tokyo in August 2021
An evening of tap with Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia and Guests
The ninety minutes glided by. Perfectly understated, the evening felt more like a meeting of friends than a theatrical performance
English National Ballet’s Nutcracker returns
Erina Takahashi and Francesco Gabriele Frola were an elegant pair in the big Act II pas de deux, where the ballet truly burst into glittering life
Reflections on life: In Time You Will by Sun-Shier Dance Theatre
The older performers steal the show. It could easily have become over-sentimental, yet it’s all done with a beautiful light touch delicacy
A double-bill for our times: T.H.E. Dance Company’s Seeing ___ Through The Eyes Of Impermanence
A deeply thoughtful double bill from Singapore of hidden stories, unusual perspectives and struggles with life.