Diversity is the big winner at the National Dance Awards 2024
Best Male Dancer jointly awarded to Tommy Franzén (hip hop) and Aakash Odedra (kathak), with both also winning performance awards.
Best Male Dancer jointly awarded to Tommy Franzén (hip hop) and Aakash Odedra (kathak), with both also winning performance awards.
The Royal Ballet tops the shortlists with eleven nominations, followed by seven for English National Ballet
Beyond its generous offering of dance, sound and humour, Ruination feels much defined by its extremely lovable cast
Plenty of humour as Sharif Afifi portrays a God with all our human vulnerabilities.
A great year for Scottish Ballet who were voted Outstanding Company, also picking up two awards for Jess & Morgs’ Coppélia
The Royal Ballet tops the short-list with 14 nominations. English National Ballet and Rambert have seven, and Birmingham Royal Ballet five.
Ben Duke has found a sweet spot to set his trial of Medea. The kingdom of Hades, across the River Styx but not yet in Elysium, is just right
Five works that celebrate and span Phoenix Dance Theatre’s four decades. An evening of British contemporary dance at its best.
There are moments that are quite brilliant… funny, tender, dramatic. The show does zip by. But I suspect will delight and frustrate in equal measure
“I wanted to get underneath everything; to get into Lucie, the central female character, and ask what is going on for her.”
The long build-up is deceptively naïve, the humour bordering on crass before the remarks sharpen and strike like a punch to the belly