★★★★✰ Motel is a gem... An award-winning company in great creative form.
Tag - Birmingham
David Bintley, director of Birmingham Royal Ballet, is a prolific choreographer and just about to unveil his latest full evening work - The Tempest. Graham Watts went to talk to him about a work, that after 30 years of consideration, has found its time and proper custom score...
His is an insider’s account, complete with waspish comments and cameos of the famous people he encountered...
★★★✰✰ Jessica Lang's Wink is an attractive piece, well designed and well made with a clear structure.
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...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ IDFB is great for Birmingham and I hope those in and around the city filled their boots.
★★★★✰ Hofesh Shechter created Political Mother in 2010 as a rebuke to totalitarianism and oppressive propaganda.
★★★★✰ Winks, finger wags, flamboyant leaps in a criminally short leather skirt – Carlos Acosta gives the people what they want in this winsome bill, a mix of variations he’s assembled to mark his retirement after more than 25 years on stage.
International Dance Festival Birmingham is back for a fifth time, running now (1 - 22 May 2016) and larger than ever we think. To find out more we did an email interview with David Massingham - Co-Artistic Director of IDFB...
★★★✰✰ When I think of Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) under David Bintley I think of tradition with a capital T and the latest double bill underlines that in spades.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Birmingham Royal Ballet have been celebrating the Silver Anniversary of Sir Peter Wright's great Nutcracker production and the company's move to Birmingham that same year.
Gallery by Dave Morgan of Sir Peter Wright's much admired production now being danced on its 25th anniversary...
Transfigured Night is a piece I could watch many times and find new things in...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Some partnership work because the dancers are so different and others, as here, work because they share a style and approach - unaffected, nuanced, true and richly musical.
David Bintley's Sylvia is a great piece of classical dance and escapist fun.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
The King Dances is a man's ballet - it has to be said a very pretty man's ballet with gorgeous designs by Katrina Lindsay.