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.”
The Royal Ballet & Opera
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.
The Royal Ballet: Like Water for Chocolate
As entertainment, Like Water for Chocolate succeeds. It is a rich, magical, exotic tragedy. But in terms of substance, it remains at the surface.
National Ballet of Japan: Giselle
The ballet adheres to the traditional, leaving the surprises and delight in the quality of performance from the dancers.
Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
Iain Mackay may have only recently become artistic director of the Royal Ballet School but, undaunted, has already upped the game by a large margin
ZooNation Youth Company: Lights Out
The seventeen young dancers, including two who can’t be in their teens yet, all already hip-hop dancers of calibre… sweep the audience away
Paris Opera Junior Ballet
The programme of four well-chosen works by director, José Martinez, showed a company of versatile young professionals.
Ballet Central
The company presented four works with a reconstruction of Frederick Ashton’s early Foyer de Danse that held the most interest.