Flamenco Festival 2026: Rocío Molina’s Calentamiento
I loved it, I hated it. I was amused. I was mesmerised, I was bored. It was profound, it was pretentious. It was loud, you could hear a pin drop.
Sadler’s Wells
Flamenco Festival 2026: En Tierra de Hombres and Luz de Guiá
Esther Merino… an unwaveringly strong tone and a command of the stage whilst always co-operating with her accompanists.
Flamenco Festival 2026: Gala Flamenca
A cohesive, well-designed evening that married solid, largely traditional, flamenco with slick presentation.
Flamenco Festival 2026: Compañía de Danza Jesús Carmona in UnYdos
An excellent evening of dance and music, solidly respectful of flamenco traditions and impressively slick in presentation.
This is Rambert
The three works do not provide much contrast and nothing seemed to speak to the age. The programme seemed empty and superficial.
National Youth Dance Company: Memory Keepers
A wonderfully inventive piece of dance theatre, and one of the most creatively choreographed works I have seen in a long time
Dada Masilo’s Hamlet
While interesting, and despite one striking solo for Ophelia, this is a Hamlet that only very occasionally gets close to the depth of the original
Still Pointless: BalletBoyz at 25
What remains most impressive is the calibre of the dancers. They show athletic power, musical responsiveness, sharp ensemble work and superb technique
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
Breakin’ Convention 2026: Friction
Contemporary dance, krump, and street-based forms intersected and overlapped in an evening that reflected the diversity of hip hop today.
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.