English National Ballet School – Summer Performance 2017 – London
★★★★✰ The highlight of the second half of the programme was Mats Ek’s Pas de Danse, staged by his assistant, Pompea Santoro.
Images Ballet Company – Distant Beauties, Concerto for Joyce and Dennis, Handsfree, Scenes of Death and Disaster – London
★★★★✰ This year’s Images Ballet Company is 8 strong, small in the graduate school scheme of things, and yet their show was one of the most exciting I’ve seen in years with a wonderful and eclectic choice of repertoire, danced with passion and verve.
BBC Young Dancer Award 2017
★★★★✰ Nafisah Baba is the BBC Young Dancer for 2017. The 20 year-old contemporary dancer from West London won the award with a diverse trio of dances that grew stronger through the rounds.
English National Ballet Emerging Dancer Competition 2016
English National Ballet recently held their 2016 Emerging Dancer Competition at the London Palladium. Bruce Marriott reports on a good event done well…
Gallery – Wayne Parsons (A Vestige) and Morgann Runacre-Temple (Poppy Hotel) at Wilton’s Strike!
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou…
English National Ballet – Choreographics 2015 – London
Of the three Choreographics evenings to date I thought this was the best, with all the pieces feeling buffed-up, thought about and nobody making a huge wrong turn.
London Contemporary Dance School – MA and Alumni Projects Upturn bill – London
…there’s a strong whiff of ‘experimental student’ here, but there’s also a good bit of talent on display.
Ballet Ireland – Carmen – London
Ballet Ireland have danced several times in London but never at Sadler’s Wells and never with the Irish ambassador as a warm-up, I fancy.
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance – Random Works, from 10 Choreographers – London
The most successful pieces of the evening are – perhaps not coincidentally – those least directly indebted to McGregor’s movement volcabulary and compositional style.
Print Room and AP Productions – Jealousy – London
Come the end of 2012, this is likely to be one of my highlights of the year. It’s not often I see a show and then book to see the same cast immediately again or pester others to go. The reason is that Jealousy works on so many different levels…
