★★★★✰ For the Royal Ballet, there could not have been a better start to their Australian tour than Ferri’s performance as Clarissa Dalloway in the first act of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works.
Archive - June 2017
★★★✰✰ This is a project with serious intent – but it doesn’t always have the wherewithal to meet its grand ambition.
The Place Retains Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation Status And Launches Ambitious New Producing And Touring Model. Also more touring by Richard Alston Dance Company...
★★★✰✰ There were times in the hour-long performance when the sensory overload kicked in and one started to be more conscious of the heat inside the chapel...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ Mats Ek’s "Axe" could be the beginning to a new Scandi Noir TV series. There is a man, an axe, a huge pile of wood that he starts to chop with repressed intensity and a visibly distressed wife. It doesn’t look like it will end well.
Passing it On: Wendy Whelan Stages her first ballet, Alexei Ratmansky's Pictures at an Exhibition, for Pacific Northwest Ballet.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ This little trip made it abundantly clear we need to see more Ratmansky in the UK and Europe...
★★★✰✰ It is the melodrama that people remember and are drawn to in Onegin. But his kind of melodrama isn’t everyone’s cup of tea...
★★★✰✰ Both are bold, engaging commissions – always welcome from a regional UK dance troupe.
★★★★★ The programme ended with a revival of the ebullient and uplifting Gypsy Mixture...
★★★★✰ 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.
★★★✰✰ To watch works created by the 29-year old Justin Peck, resident choreographer of New York City Ballet, is to experience what it feels like to be young.
★★★✰✰ I often get the feeling that the Ailey dancers transcend the choreography they’re asked to dance. With the exception of the inescapable Revelations, the company’s repertory can be hit or miss.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★★ Alexei Ratmansky’s Odessa left me breathless. The dancing (I saw both casts) was phenomenal on all levels: assured, expressive, and thoroughly dramatic.
★★★★★ It’s utterly captivating, full of unexpected, joyous exuberance.
★★★★✰ 2 casts reviewed Isabella Boylston / Alban Lendorf and Devon Teuscher / Aléxandre Hammoudi.
★★★✰✰ At the end of the evening was what you might call the blockbuster piece of the tour - 30 minutes of Matthew Bourne in the form of Act II of his "Highland Fling". Bourne's take on "La Sylphide" is a wonderful piece of work, full of wit, style and pathos...