Compañía Mercedes Ruiz: Romancero del Baile Flamenco
There were some excellent and varied offerings from the dancers who, had they been wearing any, would have worked their socks off…
Sadler’s Wells
Two takes on contemporary flamenco: Reflexiones sobre las Parcas & Matancera
Reflections on a double header at Sadler’s Wells: Reflexiones sobre las Parcas by a trio of artists, and Matancera by Rosario la Tremendita
Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras: Vuela
Sara Baras and her company, just five years older than the LOndon Flamenco Festival itself, have set the bar very high… A hard act to follow
Ballet BC: Frontier, Passing
Crystal Pite’s Frontier takes the audience on a fabulous thirty-minute journey to a place somewhere between conscious and unconscious
“A living language of emotion”
That’s flamenco says London Flamenco Festival director Miguel Marin, who talks to David Mead ahead of the festival’s 20th anniversary, 2025 edition
Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre
One of the most beautifully danced ballets I have seen in a long while. All the dancers were both technically and expressively excellent
Oona Doherty’s Specky Clark
The narrative takes convoluted turns and tangents; the fine lines of the Specky’s reality an ambiguous jumble
Breakin ‘ Convention
Earplugs are handed out as hip-hop theatre legend Jonzi D demands the packed audience ‘make some big noise’ and gets the right response.
Pagrav Dance Company in ROOH: Within her
A warm-hearted tale of folk heroism, passed on through the generations with the accent on the contribution of women.
English National Ballet: The Forsythe Programme
Not everyone can carry off Forsythe because it’s about so much more than just steps… English National Ballet have embodied the style fully.
Scottish Ballet: Twice-Born
Choreographically, Mbi ‘rebriths’ many classic dance movements, giving them a twist, an edge, that creates a sense of danger