
Joffrey Ballet Concert Group – An Evening of Dance – New York
★★★✰✰ The Joffrey Ballet Concert Group, a pre-professional troupe of young dancers under the direction of David Robertson, performed a mixed but very split bill on Thursday night, roughly dividing the six-work program into two moods: spring/summer and dark and stormy.

New York City Ballet – Midsummer Night’s Dream – New York
★★★★✰ But the kids are just one element of what makes Midsummer tick. Another is the intelligence and efficiency with which the ballet tells its story.

American Ballet Theatre – La Fille Mal Gardée – New York
★★★★★ La Fille Mal Gardée is a ballet that glows from within, lighthearted, tender and bursting with happy ideas.

The McOnie Company – Jekyll and Hyde – London
★★★✰✰ Drew McOnie’s aim in his dance-theatre version of Jekyll and Hyde is to tell a ripping yarn without the use of words. He’s very much a Matthew Bourne disciple…

International Dance Festival Birmingham 2016 – Ballet BC, Shun Ito/Kei Miyata/EEIH, Motionhouse & free events
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.

Lost Dog / Ben Duke – Paradise Lost (lies unopened beside me) – London
★★★★✰ The work is proof that inventiveness is more important than a huge budget.

5 Questions to Kenneth Tindall about his new Casanova for Northern Ballet
“He lived a life of excess and theatrical flare!” Kenneth Tindall on Casanova.

Bolshoi Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty – Moscow
★★★✰✰ Olga Smirnova danced the role of Aurora. Smirnova is a dancer with impressive physical gifts: beautiful proportions, a long elegant line, a supple back and expressive arms…

Northern Ballet – Jane Eyre – Doncaster
★★★★✰ It’s actually the best new narrative work I’ve seen Northern Ballet do in many years.

Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (NDT2) – Schubert, Sad Case, Some Other Time, mutual comfort, Solo, Cacti – London
★★✰✰✰ Hans van Manen’s Solo for three men comes as a blessed relief for its luscious co-ordination and witty response to Bach’s Violin Partita.

Gallery – Nederlands Dans Theater 2 in Schubert, Sad Case and Some Other Time
NDT2 in works by Sol Leon & Paul Lightfoot. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…

Mark Morris Dance Group – Cargo, A Forest, Foursome, The – New York
★★★✰✰ Every few years the Mark Morris Dance Group presents an evening of dances at the company’s Brooklyn headquarters, a nondescript brick building across from BAM…