National Dance Awards 2023 nominations announced
In what is the best year yet for diversity, the nominations are spread across a record 29 separate companies
Crystal Pite
Dance and theatre gold: Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Assembly Hall
A dance production that truly speaks to the ills of contemporary society and that is not afraid to make us laugh along the way.
A new take on an old story: Kidd Pivot in Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s Revisor
Quite simply, a brilliant piece of theatre, one where the performers don’t move to music but dance the words, physically expressing them in every way
A richly detailed evening with Nederlands Dans Theater
If you wanted to dive into the dark and ugly moments of life and dreams through grotesque movements, it proved the perfect evening
Nominations announced for the 23rd National Dance Awards
The Royal Ballet tops the short-list with 14 nominations. English National Ballet and Rambert have seven, and Birmingham Royal Ballet five.
A meditation on humanity: The Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage
It looks insanely beautiful. Pite’s choreography ebbs and flows again and again as it sweeps across the stage to Górecki’s evocative music
César Morales and Simone Damberg Würtz take the top individual prizes in the 21st National Dance Awards
Würtz is the first contemporary dancer to win Best Female Dancer. Elsewhere, Cathy Marston’s The Cellist picked up three prizes
The 21st National Dance Awards nominations announced
Drawn from a remarkable 456 artists and companies suggested
Crystal Pite, Ballet Black and Carlos Acosta in BBC Arts 2020 dance season
Plus films with Sharon Eyal, Kate Prince and María Pagés, and more. From May
Power and beauty in a compelling triple bill: Ballet Vlaanderen in New York
Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Crystal Pite
The word becomes physical in Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young’s must-see Revisor
Multi-layered, complex, assumption-challenging