★★★✰✰ At New York City Ballet, the fall fashion gala has become a showcase for work by young choreographers. Each one is paired up with a fashion designer and voilà, it’s an event.
Archive - September 2017
★★★✰✰ Wheeldon and his scenarist, Nicholas Wright, have made theatrical sense of a nonsensical children’s classic. This Alice, though, is a modern pantomime, not a classic ballet.
★★★★✰ Oh, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. What other choreographer can so doggedly drive a viewer to the verge of despair and then, almost casually, throw open the doors to ecstasy, all within the span of an hour?
★★★★✰ Biały Teatr Tańca (it means White Dance Theatre), is a new vehicle for the work of the uber-talented choreographer, Izadora Weiss, a protégé of the great Jiri Kylian...
With Akane Takada in the lead role. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ An outstanding bill in showing Hans van Manen's work for three companies and its rich contemporary diversity - it all looks so fresh and of today.
★★★★★ A production that seems destined to become a masterpiece of early 21st Century contemporary ballet.
★★★✰✰ It is a fascinating show, especially if you can bear to stand in warm surroundings for an hour...
The Akram Khan version with Tamara Rojo in the lead. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★✰✰✰ It all sounds terribly promising, and yet the evening falls as flat as a soufflé left in the oven for too long.
★★★★✰ In XO: eXquisite Orientation, Bay Area choreographer Randee Paufve channels the fears and frustrations that distress many of us....
★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet’s away-day to Hull, this year’s UK Capital of Culture, was dramatic in its scale: 17 pieces presented over three hours...
★★✰✰✰ The end of the world is here – let’s party. This, roughly, is the premise of Grand Finale, Hofesh Shechter’s latest wild and whirling work, in which he grapples with our apocalyptic times...
New Dance Takes Inspiration from The Office’s David Brent - courtesy The Farm, based on Australia's Gold Coast...
★★★★✰ The physicality of 5 Soldiers during the hour-long performance brings home the breaking of bodies...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...