Alexander Whitley Dance Company: Overflow
Hazy, dark, bleak, yet in many ways, beautiful. Relentless in all senses, including in the quality and precision of the five superb dancers
Birmingham Hippodrome
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Don Quixote is a sunny winner
Superb designs and a revitalised company on top form. Technical fireworks and top-notch light comedy that will delight all. A winner all-round.
The urgency to live: Léa Tirabasso’s Starving Dingoes
Although human, there is an animalistic element to much of the choreography, which has a primitive feel to it.
Birmingham Royal Ballet 2022-2023 plans
Includes the UK premiere of Uwe Scholz’s best creations, his dramatic setting of Beethoven’s vibrant Seventh Symphony alongside world premieres and revivals
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s festive Nutcracker
It’s Christmas, it’s Birmingham, and The Nutcracker is back live. Except that it’s not quite the one we have all been used to the past 30 years.
A Shakespeare classic collides with modernity as Carlos Curates: R&J Reimagined
Birmingham Royal Ballet and Rosie Kay Dance Company. Indie rock and ballet. In Brum. And it was absolutely riveting.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
With Momoko Horata and César Morales. BRB did the ballet proud, dancing finely and making the spine tingle in all the right places.
Carlos Pons Guerra’s Mariposa, an inclusive reimagining of an opera classic, finally gets its premiere
Eighteen months on from the original planned first night, David Mead talks to the very happy choreographer as Mariposa finally reaches the stage
Birmingham Royal Ballet 2021-22 plans
Including Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet and Carlos Acosta’s Don Quixote
Looking back, looking forward with Rosie Kay’s new show, Absolute Solo II
“I just felt this little tiny itch growing in me”
