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
Sadler’s Wells
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.
South Pacific: enchanting and hugely entertaining but with a message
The music is gorgeous, the set is fabulous, there’s romance and real, fully-fleshed out characters everywhere you look
A sparkling triumph: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Don Quixote
A production… that can rightly be called a triumph… the dance was virtuosic, the speed incendiary and the vitality never flagged