★★★✰✰ It’s a shame that the company didn’t choose to revive some Wheeldon rarities from its back catalogue...
Archive - April 2017
Graham Watts' citation, made before the presentation - a major appreciation of a huge star of dance and theatre...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ I still remember my feelings during the premiere of Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons at NYCB in 2006. There was a shock of recognition: this was the thing I had been looking for...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Kay has produced a visually exciting and sexy work based on a theory that is all clearly nonsense.
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think - and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ Reviewing a youth dance company is always a tricky thing. These are not professional dancers although everything else about the production is a professional show.
★★★✰✰ Mohiniyattam is known as the “dance of the enchantress” – it is extremely feminine and flowing, and devoid of the rhythmic attack and angularity that makes some of the other dances so exciting...
★★★★✰ 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.
★★★★✰ Ballet Across America – a festival that showcases the stylistic, creative and geographical diversity of American ballet – returned to the Kennedy Center this month...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ For western audience tastes, there is quite a heavy dose of melodrama in this Mulan – Matthew Ma’s overblown score of soaring strings ramps this up further.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ This is Northern Ballet firing on all dramatic cylinders - a fine show made great by the entire company.
San Francisco Ballet – Trio, Ghost in the Machine (premiere), Within the Golden Hour – San Francisco
★★★✰✰ Myles Thatcher is an inventive young talent...
★★★★✰ Men and Girls Dance is a touching and joyful demonstration of optimism about us humans in an increasingly bleak age.
★★★★✰ The overall triumph of Cuisine & Confessions is that it achieves what it sets out to do: to offer an inventive thought piece on our humanity via food...
★★★★✰ It is impossible to review Betroffenheit without reference to the tragedy that sits behind it...