Confidence, challenge and considerable promise in The Place CAT Summer Show
Moving between contrasting choreographers, styles and emotional worlds, all the dancers, all 16 or under, performed with flair, confidence and impressive technical ability.
School & conservatoire performances
The Royal Ballet Lower School at Holland Park
In the Royal Ballet School’s centenary year, a diverse programme reflected a focus on innovation, no doubt aided by the younger generation who continue to inspire
Stephanie Lake’s Colossus: A Living Choreography
An exploration of the relationship between the individual and the collective… Each dancer remained distinct while being continuously reorganised within a larger, shifting whole.
School of the Hamburg Ballet: Erste Schritte
An evening featuring the whole school, and culminating with John Neumeier’s Yondering, which explores themes of innocence and adventure
Next Generation Festival: Rambert School & Junior Company of Polish National Ballet
An evening of contrasts with three contemporary dance works from Rambert School and five shorter neo-classical pieces from the Junior Company of the Polish National Ballet
University of Taipei Annual Performance
Choreography by faculty members, a guest appearance by dancers of Sungkyunkwan University (Seoul), and a tribute to the late Tsai Li-hua, (蔡麗華)
National Taiwan University of Arts: 在Dˋ
A superb evening of excellent performances and very good student choreography, topped off with Toru Shimazaki’s marvellous Zero Body (臨極限).
Tsai Meng-ting x Lai Yi-fei: Illusory Time|Errant Tongue
Tsai Meng-ting (蔡孟廷) and Lai Yi-fei (賴怡菲) in a programme of interesting choreography, and superb interpretation and ownership of roles.
Verve 2026
An excellent triple bill… a superb evening, one that showed, once again, that the NSCD is still at the top of the dance training tree
National Taiwan University of Sport: Lien Sheng
Lien Sheng (瀲生) included nine very varied student choreographies, sandwiched between two quality professional works by members of faculty
Dancers of Tomorrow: Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Matinée in Munich
The autumn matinee of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Akademie) and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München (BJBM)