★★★★★ The programme ended with a revival of the ebullient and uplifting Gypsy Mixture...
Author - Graham Watts
★★★★✰ In his new ballet, Kenneth Tindall takes Casanova on an epic adventure in absorbing dance theatre that aligns his inventive choreography and mime with a strong and exciting narrative...
★★✰✰✰ There is no sense of who these people are, or why they are there.
★★★★✰ Weaker choreography might easily be overshadowed by the monumental capacity of the set and motion graphics, but Finnan’s work is equally imposing...
Graham Watts' citation, made before the presentation - a major appreciation of a huge star of dance and theatre...
★★★✰✰ Kay has produced a visually exciting and sexy work based on a theory that is all clearly nonsense.
★★✰✰✰ 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.
★★★★✰ 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.
★★★★✰ It is impossible to review Betroffenheit without reference to the tragedy that sits behind it...
★★★★★ One cannot help but observe that while the programmes of other companies both hit and miss, in terms of their critical appreciation and popular appeal, ENB is continually raising the bar...
Trisha Brown leaves the most enormous legacy of repertoire and ideas, such that it is impossible to imagine the development of modern dance without her...
★★✰✰✰ I begin this notice with a codicil. Let this preamble show my unbounded admiration for the spirit and rationale of Project Polunin.
★★★★★ Liñán is one of flamenco’s great innovators; driving the art forward through the twenty-first century...
Manuel Liñán will be very busy during this year’s Flamenco Festival London. He is directing the annual Gala Flamenca (23-25 February) and also his company will close the Festival...
Wayne Parsons interviewed about his choreographic practice and latest work - Vestige - to be premiered at London's Rich Mix on 25 Feb.
★★★★✰ Maillot has succeeded in giving perhaps the most authentic retelling of Perrault’s story in dance with his tale of love overcoming the darkest evil...
★★★★✰ Although ostensibly a children’s story, El Principito is a philosophical fable, parodying the world at war during the time that Saint-Exupéry was writing (1942) and it is also to some extent autobiographical...
★★★✰✰ For all the recent innovations that Tamara Rojo has brought to the English National Ballet, including three stunning full-evening programmes of her own devising, the Nutcracker is still the heart of every season...
★★★✰✰ In truth, the ballet is up and down (or, more accurately, down and up) for, overall, the second act is a huge improvement on the first.
★★★✰✰ It is rare to find young choreographers developing a distinctive movement language and Seva is certainly one of the most original emerging talents in UK.