A summer special: English National Ballet’s Solstice
A little early maybe, but ENB’s Solstice at the Southbank proved a delicious smorgasbord of dance
Birmingham Royal Ballet 2021-22 plans
Including Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote
Cathy Marston to become Ballet Director at Ballett Zürich
She will take over as new Ballet Director and Chief Choreographer for an initial period of two years, starting from the 2023-24 season
The Asian-American choreographic voice: 2021 CrossCurrent Contemporary Dance Virtual Festival
The mix of screendance and film of stage performances certainly evidence the increasing Asian-American choreographic voice
Contemporary Cuts from Northern Ballet
In For an Instant, Lebrun achieves a sense of the fleeting through continual movement with unexpected changes in pace and gesture
Modern, exciting and about their city: Birmingham Royal Ballet in Curated by Carlos
A programme, that is very much of today; classically rooted but with a distinct contemporary edge and energy grafted on
A surfeit of letters: Northern Ballet in Dangerous Liaisons
David Nixon’s choreography is edgy and exciting throughout… the dancers are uniformly terrific… And yet…
As audacious as ever: Ben Duke in Lost Dog’s Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me)
The long build-up is deceptively naïve, the humour bordering on crass before the remarks sharpen and strike like a punch to the belly
Flatpack Collaboration at the Birmingham International Dance Festival
A look at six dance films including the subtly beautiful but strongly-messaged In Plain Sight by Tanin Torabi
Levantes Dance Theatre: The Band
A delightful fifty minutes of super physical theatre that sends you have with a warm feeling inside.
A unique piece of theatre: Circus Days and Nights by Cirkus Cirkör and Malmö Opera
This unique commingling of poetry, opera by Philip Glass and and circus has created something quite magical