Rocío Molina: Al Fondo Riela
It ends with more fabulous guitar playing as Molina appears, dressed bizarrely as some kind of black and red insect. Have we strayed into Kafka?
Sadler’s Wells
Northern Ballet: Romeo and Juliet
The costumes are breathtaking, the lighting perfectly captures its changing moods and the dancing, of course, was excellent.
English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer
One couple, Breanna Foad and Thiago Pereira stood out, and it was no great surprise when Foad was named Emerging Dancer 2024
A picture of humanity: Maguy Marin’s May B.
An homage to Irish dramatist and novelist Samuel Beckett’s universe, but also a work that in many ways holds up a mirror to ourselves.
Scottish Ballet: A Streetcar Named Desire
There is something special about watching Blanche, danced superbly by Marge Hendrick, on her self-destruct journey in the language of dance
Birmingham Royal Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Peter Wright’s unerring sense of theatre is evident throughout in this iconic production which premiered in 1984
Humanity. Tragedy with comedy. Maguy Marin on May B.
If Maguy Marin has a signature work, May B. is surely it. Ahead of its coming to London, the choreographer Marin tells David Mead about the piece.
Paco Peña: Solera
What a long way we have come since the first flamenco festival in 2003. A very pleasing prelude to this year’s festival in a couple of months.
A symphony of young and old: ZooNation Youth and the Company of Elders
The sheer delight of the performers washed across the footlights, embracing the audience in a continuous hug
balletLORENT in The Velveteen Rabbit
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s WellsApril 6, 2024 An audience comprised of the youngest theatre goers, is a very different playing experience, and companies that perform for this age group seem to fall into two categories. They either condescend, treating the young audience as a collective six-month-old, with little cognitive ability; or they perform as they … Read more
English National Ballet in Johan Inger’s Carmen
There is definitely a sense that we are observing a community living on the edges of society and, for all Inger’s protestations…, it is clearly gitano