★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet School in particular includes something very special in their show - the closing Grand Defile, which always brings a lump to the throat and a feeling of pride.
Author - Bruce Marriott
St Petersburg Ballet Theatre and their lead ballerina Irina Kolesnikova return to the London Coliseum this summer and with a brand new ballet to boot - we wanted to know more...
★★✰✰✰ Marie Chouinard certainly has interesting and original ideas - hurrah for that - but an editor would really help make the best of them sparkle.
Birmingham Royal Ballet: Taming of the Shrew (Birmingham) and Northern Ballet: Jane Eyre (Leicester)
★★★✰✰ for BRB's troublesome fun packed Taming of the Shrew and ★★★★✰ Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre with Hannah Bateman in the lead...
★★★✰✰ No Body was an interesting diversion, that confirms the artistic chops of the technical talent that makes so many shows pop and zing. As an exercise I hope it might be repeated every few years.
★★★✰✰ Seeing the premiere of Kim Brandstrup's Shaken Mirror in Copenhagen proved both an uplifting and a frustrating experience.
'No Body', by Lucy Carter, Michael Hulls and Nitin Sawhney, runs from 7-12 June 2016 at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London.
★★★✰✰ I give it 3 stars because when you do see Pite's movement it's amazing, but in any other hands this was a 2 star night.
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.
★★★★✰ It's actually the best new narrative work I've seen Northern Ballet do in many years.
English National Ballet recently held their 2016 Emerging Dancer Competition at the London Palladium. Bruce Marriott reports on a good event done well...
★★★✰✰ "... Wink is a 4 star piece. We need to see more of Jessica Lang’s work..."
★★✰✰✰ A new take on Jungle Book - welcome to the hip-hop, dance theatre, narrative-circus version...
★★★✰✰ Sophie Martin's Odette/Odille, despite the costume, steals the show with layers of dramatic nuance on top of the pushed lines of Dawson's steps.
★★★★✰ It seems an age (well 4 years) since NDT2 were last touring the UK and I've missed them. They might be the young company of Nederlands Dans Theater (aged 18-23) but they put on a fine show...
★★★✰✰ If the tech didn't entirely wow and draw me in then the Motionhouse dancers did as strong and agile performers. This is dance infused with circus and their clever physicality pleases no end.
★★★★✰ They say that the best cooks take the ingredients and do the least to them to create a magnificent meal, and that's what Michael Keegan-Dolan has done...
★★★✰✰ Ballet Central's 2016 tour visits 17 theatres with 8 diverse works. Bruce Marriott catches up with one of the paciest nights of dance you will find...
★★★★✰ It's taken me a while to catch up with Lorent but my goodness I won't miss much from here on.
★★★✰✰ I also note it was an all female choreographers bill - no big thing was made of this and that's just where we all need to get to.