International Draft Works
A short evening with plenty of variety, as ten choreographers, mostly still dancers themselves, were given the space to experiment.
The Royal Ballet & Opera
Sydney Dance Company: Ascent
classic contemporary dance, a work of conceptual dance/art and a breakdance-inspired close, all invested with Antipodean energy and commitment
Macmillan short works celebrated by The Royal Ballet
This triple bill of Danses Concertantes, Different Drummer and Requiem gives evidence of the breadth and depth of his creative talents
Nuñez and Muntagirov light up The Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake
Swan Lake is the ballerina’s ballet and Nuñez was perfection from her first grand jeté to her final death plunge.
Festival of New Choreography: Dark with Excessive Bright, Duets
Shedding their very traditional image, the Royal Opera House has opened up unusual spaces and introduced new faces.
A box of delights: New Works at The Royal Ballet
There is much to like, not least that all have an overt classical core… A big hurrah too for the fact that three of the pieces feature pointework…
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
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.