A Christmas treat: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance
With some of Bourne’s best choreography in the detail of the variations, the passion of the duets and strong ensemble numbers.
Sadler’s Wells
Freaky Bones: Israel Galván’s La Consagración de la Primavera
Goes far deeper than the spectacular or technique for technique’s sake. One comes out feeling awed and moved
An inspiring evening of contemporary ballet: English National Ballet, Ek/Forsythe/Quagebeur
Perhaps only a giant of choreography such as Mats Ek could so successfully pull off a reboot of such a familiar subject as The Rite of Spring
Navigating growing up: Jasmin Vardimon Company in ALiCE
A visual treat and the dancing really is fantastic, even if nothing is quite what it seems, and even if it left me not really any the wiser about who Alice is
Stina Quagebeur talks Take Five Blues and making dance
The extended version has kept the upbeat, uplifting feel of the original, with the nature of the music is as important as ever, she says
Ghoulish fun: Arthur Pita’s Ten Sorry Tales
Almost always irreverent and bizarre, sometimes ghoulish, sometimes colourful, often a little surreal, each story is also very human.
A picture of people who breathe and feel, suffer and love: Jiří Kylián’s Forgotten Land comes to Birmingham Royal Ballet
In conversation with the choreographer’s assistant, Cora Bos-Kroese, ahead to the company’s first ever staging of a Kylián work
Birmingham Royal Ballet’s new Hotel promises darkness with a dash of humour in a meeting of dance and film
A conversation with choreographer Morgann Runacre-Temple and BRB principal dancer Tzu-Chao Chou
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker: The Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Another de Keersmaeker ride and a half. Full of questions, many unanswered. Which is why I, and I imagine many others, keep returning
Ballet fun with Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Their en travesti brand of ballet humour, poking affectionate, gentle fun at traditions and stereotypes, still makes for an amusing, enjoyable evening
Curious and questioning: Jasmin Vardimon on her new ALiCE
A conversation with Jasmin Vardimon about her new production, ALiCE, and a look at her company’s fabulous new creative hub in Ashford, Kent.