ZooNation Youth Company: Lights Out
The seventeen young dancers, including two who can’t be in their teens yet, all already hip-hop dancers of calibre… sweep the audience away
Next Generation Festival
Paris Opera Junior Ballet
The programme of four well-chosen works by director, José Martinez, showed a company of versatile young professionals.
Youth Company of the Finnish National Ballet
Marco Goecke’s Blushing is a perfect vehicle for the energy and commitment that the company has in spades.
American Ballet Theatre Studio Company in London
A well-curated programme that showcased the dancers’ skills well, culminating in Jerome Robbins’ American classic, Interplay
English National Ballet School annual performance
The third year’s classical work was Les Patineurs (1937), and then Pina Bausch’s Tannhăuser Bacchanal (1972), a fascinating piece of dance history
Dances of life: Bundesjugendballett
The ensemble of eight graduate dancers aged 18-23… brims with talent… a fabulous evening, one filled with energy, passion and fine dancing.
New English Ballet Theatre & Norwegian National Ballet 2
A wonderfully varied, enjoyable evening that mixed out-and-out classical ballet with contemporary dance, although Oslo-based NNB2 had the edge