Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
Iain Mackay may have only recently become artistic director of the Royal Ballet School but, undaunted, has already upped the game by a large margin
Marius Petipa
Ballet Nights 007
While the seventh edition of Ballet Nights may have had the suffix ‘007,’ it fell short on James Bond-style thrills.
Sparkle, fireworks: Ballet Icons Gala 2025
A terrific evening. It was also one that probably contained more chances to see fouttées than most in the audience get in a year. No one disappointed.
Legacy at the Linbury
A celebration of black dancers past and present. “A packed evening of a dozen short dance works brimming with talent.”
State Ballet of Georgia: Swan Lake
A pleasing, traditional Swan Lake, but one that lacks characterisation and struggles for ‘wow’ factor.
Classicism to the fore at the John Cranko School Matinée
Top quality dancing… But perhaps best of all, everything was very classically rooted, with pointework very much to the fore for the women.
An evening of many colours: Badisches Staatsballett’s International Benefit Gala
Invariably a wonderful evening’s dance… this year’s gala was also a farewell, and a thank you, to outgoing artistic director Bridget Breiner
Staatsballett Berlin celebrates 20 years with a sparkling gala
The varied programme of mostly excerpts from longer pieces delighted the enthusiastic audience on a summery Sunday evening
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
The standard was uniformly high although, as in the past couple of years, it was the men, who got two pieces all to themselves, who thrilled
English National Ballet School dance PCK and Pita
Most fun was Arthur Pita´s Death Defying Dances. Full of dark humour and fabulous music, it is an absolute delight.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
One couple, Breanna Foad and Thiago Pereira stood out, and it was no great surprise when Foad was named Emerging Dancer 2024