The Royal Ballet: Manon
Period melodrama brought to vivid life. Love, jealousy, criminality, sexual abuse, murder… And Francesca Hayward was near perfect in the title role
The Royal Ballet & Opera
Classicism all the way in Northern Ballet’s Generations
The undoubted highlight… is Tiler Peck’s Intimate Pages. It’s full of invention and packed with steps. The dance eats up every inch of the stage.
Telling the Windrush story: Island Movements
Part of the Black British Ballet project, a ballet that seeks to explore the lives and stories of the Windrush Generation and their families
Steps and words. Francesca Hayward and Alexander Campbell in The Limit
Kristen McNally’s light touch choreography fits perfectly. Nestling beautifully with the text, it’s sometimes playful, occasionally spiky, always colloquial.
The Royal Ballet: Anemoi, The Cellist
The Cellist: a fine piece of dance drama, and a fitting memoir of a brilliant and popular musician whose career and life were so tragically cut short.
The Royal Ballet: Don Quixote
You can’t deny it’s a crowd-pleaser. Sunny and warm, full of dancing bullfighters, gypsies and other locals, Don Quixote is real feelgood ballet
The Australian Ballet 60th Anniversary Celebration Gala
The energy and courage of the dancers is a joy to watch and director David Halberg has a company to be proud of
The Australian Ballet: Jewels
Jewels, to coin a phrase, is a gem. Each of the three ballets… is distinct in style, mood and music… each is exposing too.
The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance
Overall, the modern pieces showcased the dancers’ skill, technique and emotional engagement somewhat better than the classical ones.
Next Generation Festival: Rambert School
Six new pieces performed by the third-years, alongside two award-winning works by noted choreographers danced by the second-years.
Next Generation Festival: The Royal Ballet School
An super evening with the high spots being the clownery and of Kylián’s Sechs Tänze and the classicism of Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour.