★★★✰✰ Once again, Osipova gave it her all – and Osipova’s all is quite something to behold.
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★★★✰✰ So, is Pure Dance a success? It depends on what you’re looking for. Osipova is as exciting, and as powerful, a dancer as ever. Among the commissions, only Valse Triste and Flutter are worthy of further exploration...
★★★✰✰ No trade description problems, here. This was exactly what it said on the tin: Natalia Osipova performing pure dance, enhanced only by recorded music and lighting designs varying from the merest of subtle tints to an explosion of floodlights...
★★★★✰ Crystal Pite’s work stands out as the crowd-pleaser. With huge cheers and applause, we rise to our feet for the dancers.
★★★★✰ Michael Nunn and Billy Trevitt’s all-male company are on sparkling form right now.
★★★★✰ There’s an appealing simplicity to Jose Agudo’s first full-length company production.
Malta’s national contemporary dance company, ŻfinMalta Dance Ensemble, are touring to the UK for the first time - we have a word with Artistic Director Mavin Khoo...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year...
The episodic format works nicely: there’s ample scope to explore each scene’s premise, which in turn lends the piece the weight and substance its desolate theme requires...
William Trevitt and Michael Nunn have taken their BalletBoyz company up a few gears with this latest work; pitching their 11 male dancers – and two guest women – into an intense, demanding, full-length piece exploring the horrors of war.