Birmingham Royal Ballet – Polarity & Proximity: Kin., Embrace, In The Upper Room – London
★★★✰✰ Williamson’s commission – the first of an ambitious Ballet Now programme for new works – was themed on issues of gender and alienation, with Brandon Lawrence being a man struggling for identity…
Memorable Performances of 2016 – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – Wink, The Moor’s Pavane, The Shakespeare Suite – London
★★★★✰ Wink, best seen from above, is a valuable addition to BRB’s repertoire. So is José Limon’s The Moor’s Pavane, created in 1949.
Birmingham Royal Ballet – The Tempest – London
★★★✰✰ Bintley has treated Shakespeare’s drama as a masque, full of spectacle, music and dancing, with elusive characters that are more allegorical than realistic. It doesn’t work as a narrative ballet because the sub-plots are too complicated…
2015 Dance Memories – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…
Gallery – Birmingham Royal Ballet in Theme and Variations, Enigma Variations and Kin.
Gallery by Dave Morgan…
Birmingham Royal Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty – London
…it’s actually a real pleasure to watch a company just working together for the good of the ballet.
