★★★★✰ Maillot’s work is generally replete with a sense of irony and eroticism and Shakespeare gave him enormous scope for both!
Author - Graham Watts
★★★★✰ One great privilege of Rojo being both director and dancer must be the opportunity to choose her own partners and this year’s returning guest is Ivan Vasiliev...
★★★★✰ Kobborg has deconstructed the work; mixing up the narrative’s building blocks before reassembling them in a masterpiece of balance that remains recognisably traditional but is also refreshingly new.
★★★✰✰ While the production is supremely stylish and the characters well-observed with expressive and romantic choreography, the narrative is padded out in order to fill the music, particularly where traditional elements of "Cinderella" have been excised.
★★★★✰ A charming, uplifting ballet that truly sets the scene for Christmas. A large part of the heart-warming effect was Darrell’s decision to populate the stage with children...
★★★✰✰ This is Swan Lake in name only. There is no Tchaikovsky... there are no tutus... there is no-one called Odette, Odile, Siegfried or Rothbart, although there are several characters called McLoughlin...
★★★★✰ There is a cocksure, swaggering confidence about this company and these dancers, in this programme.
So how did a good Chilean boy end up dancing ballet in Europe...
★★★★✰ The ENB production of La Sylphide has been staged by three luminaries of Danish ballet, Frank Andersen, Eva Kloborg and Anne Marie Vessel Schlüter, and is, therefore, one supposes, as authentic to the August Bournonville ideals, as possible...
Graham Watts catches up with the well connected Avatâra Ayuso who has just been appointed Associate Artist at Shobana Jeyasingh Dance...
★★★★★ The words “90 minutes, no interval” generally fill me with dread.
★★★★✰ There has to be something in Canada’s water, especially in the beautiful city of Québec...
★★★★★ It seems appropriate that I’ve travelled to Russia to find a Cinderella interpreter of movement and spectacle to match up to the genius of Prokofiev’s music.
★★★★✰ Lithuania punches well above its weight as a propagator of modern dance and it is a pleasure and a privilege to have one of its leading cultural exports based here in the UK.
★★★★✰ 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...
★★★★★ 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...
★★✰✰✰ This story sounds a lot more interesting than it played out on stage where... it was one long bore, punctuated occasionally by some arresting dance sequences.
★★★✰✰ By far the best of this production - more musical theatre, than dance – was the outstanding score and songbook from Ella Spira...
★★★✰✰ 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...