Juliet Burnett (a Senior Artist with Australian Ballet) is in unchartered territory - injured and offstage for the first time in over 10 years. We are following her rehab: a fascinating insight into the private reality of dancers' lives...
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It's especially challenging for the Royal Ballet, whose repertoire and style are built on the subtle understatement of Frederick Ashton and the deep psychological explorations of Kenneth MacMillan: hot-blooded Latin exuberance is not really their thing...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
New Adventures and Re:Bourne are delighted to announce a national tour of a thrilling new production of LORD OF THE FLIES, choreographed by Olivier nominated Scott Ambler, adapted and directed by Matthew Bourne and Scott Ambler...
An imaginatively contrasting double-bill, it pulled in audiences and left them buzzing.
The Genée International Ballet Competition 2013 was held in Glasgow this year - Jann Parry reports on the finals for us...
Sensitive acting and nuanced dancing by the entire cast contribute immensely to the production.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
'Necessity, Again' ends the programme on a high. Kylian’s 'Indigo Rose' is an effective opener, provided you don’t find yourself asking why he made the choices he did.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
There is joy in repetition. Repetition that goes beyond my perceived limits. Repetition that on paper sounds like something that would not be possible for the person I think I am.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
In short, it was foot-tapping fun!
What most struck me on this particular evening was the transparency, and clarity of intention, that marked each work.
Dance Odysseys at the 2013 Edinburgh Festival with reviews on 20 dance works by Scottish Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa, James Cousins and Rosie Kay. Also thoughts on 4 rare films and links to much video material and many other reviews. It's big!
Kevin O’Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, announced today that Matthew Golding is to join the Company as a Principal in February 2014. His first performance will be on 27 March dancing alongside Natalia Osipova in The Sleeping Beauty.
The most successful pieces of the evening are – perhaps not coincidentally – those least directly indebted to McGregor’s movement volcabulary and compositional style.
Amid all the fuss about the costumes, the choreogaphy paled... What a joy, then, to see a section of Western Symphony, with those marvelous frou-frou tutus by Karinska and that euphoric outpouring of Balanchine’s’ crisp, witty steps.
A major triumph throughout the work is a seamless integration of dance with all other theatrical elements.