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.
The Place
Travellers and particles: Voyage and Hakkō by Korea National Contemporary Dance Company
Two works with very different forms of propulsion that remind how thrilling modern dance can be when rhythm takes hold of the body and refuses to let go
Festival of Korean Dance 2026: 99 Art Company in Ekah & Abyss
Both sit in the territory of grief, ritual and remembrance… An evening that was certainly distinctive, occasionally compelling, but also frustratingly limited
Lyre Liar by Liam Francis Dance Company
A solo work that traces Francis’ journey in dance, moving between performance and personal reflection.
Ballet National Folklorique du Luxembourg: The Great Chevalier
There is something wonderfully slippery about The Great Chevalier. At its centre is M. Chevalier, played with delicious comic authority by Louis Chevalier.
Yukiko Masui’s RONiN
Masui excels in crafting inventive and sharply controlled sequences in which physical precision and dramatic tension work together to powerful effect.
Into The Light by PCK Dance
Following Vessel, In the Absence leaves the audience feeling oddly uplifted, sprinkling a little of its shine on us in these dark and dismal times.
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
Resolution 26: Antonello Sangirardi, Host Bodies, AmyFoskettDance
It was a loud night. Not in decibels, but in the way each of the three short works occupied the act of looking.
Resolution 26: MANACAN, Shea Sullivan, Jie Gao and Wally Groves
A varied selection of choreographic voices… Every work showed a different sense of direction, whether through ideas, energy or physical presence
Ockham’s Razor: Collaborator
A very appealing and always engaging 55-minute look at what it really takes to work creatively with another person