Tutus and Testosterone: Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Irresistible. The joke never feels thin, because the dancing underneath it is so alive. Technique is there, ego is there, bad behaviour is there
Sadler's Wells
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
A riot of colour and sound from the first step to the last… sumptuous gaiety, romance and a great deal of fun… a score that seems to laugh from the pit.
Dorrance Dance: The Centre Will Not Hold
The tap does not sit apart from the other styles; rather, it seems to emerge from within them
Kontakthof – Echoes of ’78
Brings together surviving members of Bausch’s original 1978 cast, placing them against archive footage of their younger selves and those no longer alive.
Yewande 103: Many Lifetimes
The dancers use kinetic, fluid movement, which is deeply controlled, deliberate and strikingly graceful. Each coveys a sense of humility…
English National Ballet: Body & Soul
Pite’s Body and Soul (Part 1) demonstrates all the depth and subtlety which we have come to expect from this most exciting of choreographers
Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends
A cornucopia of amazing dance on an evening that just kept giving. Peck is a force of nature who never losers her high-octane energy
Scottish Ballet: Mary, Queen of Scots
The dancers were superb, their level of technique, dramatic interpretation, and musicality, a sheer joy to watch.
Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
There is a lot of dancing but it does feel like one big number after another at times. And the choreography within them is very busy
Ballet Black: Shadows
Ballet Black have had a difficult year having to relocate to West London. It doesn’t show in performance, however.
S-E-D/Sharon Eyal: Into the Hairy
Eyal’s Into the Hairy for her company, S-E-D, depicts a strange world, one whose inhabitants are disconcertingly humanoid, but not quite human