
Akademi – The Troth – Leicester
★★★★★ The Troth is a gripping experience of a shared heritage. It’s convincingly told as a moving story of love and sacrifice, set in an all-too-familiar context of First World War horror seen through unfamiliar eyes…

Gallery – Sadler’s Wells Sampled 2018
Featuring: NDT2 (Nederlands Dans Theater 2), Jodelle Douglas, Jesus Carmona, Humanhood, Zenaida Yanowsky, Candoco and Yeah Yellow. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou.

National Youth Dance Company – Tarantiseismic – London
★★✰✰✰ 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.

Ballet Central – 2016 Tour – Tonbridge
★★★✰✰ 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…

Richard Alston Dance Company – An Italian in Madrid, Brisk Singing, Mazur, Stronghold – London
★★★★✰ All-in-all this was an outstanding programme of entertaining dance…

Interview – Jane Hackett, Director of National Youth Dance Company
Sara Veale catches up with Jane Hackett, director of National Youth Dance Company, ahead of NYDC’s performance at Latitude Festival on 19 July.

Mark Baldwin & Ladysmith Black Mambazo – Inala – London
Enthusiasm alone doesn’t make a show a success, though, and Inala doesn’t quite succeed in melding all that goodwill into a coherent exploration of dance and music from markedly different traditions.

Encore Dance Company – Tour 2015: De Part Ed, Intermezzo, Don Quixote pdd, Testament, Untouchable Void – London
High spirits saturated this programme from Encore Dance, the graduate company of Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.