Following the earlier news about DanceTabs closing, we've now run our final reviews and galleries and, in a final flourish, we wanted to celebrate...
DanceTabs Update and Appreciation
New York City Ballet – Mozartiana, Rubies, La Valse – New York
★★★✰✰ Last week’s performance, of a triple bill of Balanchine works, was as normal as anything could be in these abnormal times...
Royal Ballet – Romeo and Juliet (O’Sullivan and Sambé) – London
★★★★✰ The production is in good hands and in good shape, as audiences will see when it is screened in cinemas worldwide.
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Following the earlier news about DanceTabs closing, we've now run our final reviews and galleries and, in a final flourish, we wanted to celebrate the site by drawing together all the kind things that people have said since we made the announcement. Thank you!
★★★✰✰ Last week’s performance, of a triple bill of Balanchine works, was as normal as anything could be in these abnormal times...
★★★★✰ The production is in good hands and in good shape, as audiences will see when it is screened in cinemas worldwide.
★★★★✰ A deceptively low-key hour-long show... which blends circus skills with offbeat humour and a gently strange narrative arc.
★★★★★ This Nutcracker carries the subtitle "A magical family adventure" and Scottish Ballet across the board deliver on that - it's certainly a production worth going out of your way to see.
★★★★✰ Short & Sweet is a very mixed bill, ranging from the arcane to the absurd, celebrating otherness with lots of laughter.
★★★★✰ The program opened with one of Justin Peck’s best pieces in years, Partita...
Features Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé being coached in the studio by Leanne Benjamin and Edward Watson. A special photoshoot at the Royal Ballet by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★★ Starting 2022 on an optimistic footing for dance and performance that centres on the work of black artists from the African diaspora, interdisciplinary performer and choreographer Toussaint Buck curates a spectacularly rich programme at the Lilian Baylis...
★★★★✰ Power is a work borne of reimagining what Black Shaker worship was like in all its amazing complexity. The piece was inspired by Wilson’s enduring curiosity about the Shakers and his discovery of Mother Rebecca Cox Jackson, a black woman spiritual leader...
DanceTabs is closing and will stop adding new articles early next month - February 2022. Although DanceTabs is closing to new contributions, it is not closing as a website. The site will remain for at least three years and at some point go into archive that may look different but should ensure the availability of articles for far longer.
★★★★✰ Rojo has achieved an excellent feat of artistic engineering; creating a fully-functioning, enjoyable new model out of a redundant artefact.
★★★★✰ ...an unexpected, joyful delight, performed with skill and nonchalance...
★★★★✰ Formerly known as the Contemporary Dance Showcase, Kudos to Japan Society for making last-minute (Covid-19) adaptations rather than cancelling their "2022 Contemporary Dance Festival: Japan + East Asia" program.
English National Ballet's long-delayed Raymonda, by Tamara Rojo, at last gets its premiere at London's Coliseum on the 18 Jan 2022. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet pull together in difficult conditions to make a show happen as well as possible, for which we applaud them with grateful pleasure.
Spielberg’s West Side Story offers a compelling account of contemporary problems while giving the original plot added detail. Spielberg brings West Side Story down to earth. Robbins and Wise, on the other hand, created magic.
At a busy time, 5 very short questions and 5 very short answers...