Ballet Black: …all towards hope and Ingoma
Two works that, in different ways, speak about hope and togetherness that unfold as a conversation about what hope might mean, and what it takes for people to stand together.
The Royal Ballet & Opera
Giselle: a most honest romance
Nuñez’s Giselle looks unusually light within this world. Her peasant dancing is clean and loose, its ease producing flow rather than force
Snapshots of American Modern Dance: Paul Taylor Dance Company
Across both evenings, dialects shifted quickly, textures changed sharply, and technique kept surfacing as a through-line.
Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones
The combination of Christopher Bruce and Leonard Cohen in Troubadour produces a dance magic of the sort rarely seen, spellbinding and unforgettable
The Royal Ballet’s The Nutcracker
At the curtain call, the audience greets Sir Peter Wright, his 99th birthday days away. Fiction and reality touch lightly. The ballet’s tradition no longer distant.
London City Ballet in Rebirth: Page, Robbins, Chu, Ratmansky
The company just gets better and better. The eleven dancers were outstanding in their grace, fluidity, musicality and interpretation
The Royal Ballet: Perspectives (Balanchine, Marston, Peck)
“A triple-bill that’s classy and classic… Perspectives really is a cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all.”
Osipova/Linbury
A super programme, the highlight being the return of Jo Strømgren’s The Exhibition, a tale of the accidental meeting of two people in a gallery
Joburg Ballet: Communion of Light
Dada Masilo’s Salomé lasts just thirty minutes but everything is here… Desire, power and passion are everywhere. The stage is full of sexual tension.
A treat for young and old: Northern Ballet’s Little Red Riding Hood
The Wolf is hungry, famished, in fact, but rather than Little Red and Grandma being on the menu, he’s more interested in cakes and honey
La Fille mal gardée: Frederick Ashton’s sunshine ballet
When Marianela Nuñez stepped on stage, it was instantly clear that she was not pretending to be Lise, she was Lise.