★★★✰✰ Although An Evening with Scottish Ballet could have been better presented by the Edinburgh Festival, the programme showcases an enterprising company full of ideas...
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With one common factor, music by Igor Stravinsky, Scottish Ballet (SB) deliver two excellent and very contrasting performances which were filmed at the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh in 2017.
★★★★✰ Hampson has created a naturalistic and, above all, a graceful and harmonious set of steps. It's all so unforced, but it feels right and creates a beautifully rounded and satisfying production.
★★★★★ Scottish Ballet has a major critical hit on their hands - this is compelling 21st century watching. It was the premiere you want to see, but so very often don't, with everybody, but everybody, at the top of their game...
★★★★✰ The cast I saw at the first performance of this year's Christmas touring season were the best (Ugly) Step-Sisters I've ever seen - take a bow Constance Devernay and Aisling Brangan.
★★★★✰ 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...
Gallery by Stephen Wright...
★★★★✰ Outside London Scottish Ballet's sense of adventure makes them the UK company to watch...
Scottish Ballet are touring Christopher Hampson's "Cinderella" this Christmas - Graham Watts was at the European premiere in Edinburgh for DanceTabs...
The Jean-Christophe Maillot Romeo and Juliet, last week given its UK premiere by Northern Ballet, is a strange thing.
... what a Nutcracker Scottish Ballet now have - focused on the joy of children, the delight of dance and the wonder of magic and great design.
It may be his name only on the posters, but Richard Alston firmly shares the limelight with Martin Lawrance in this quadruple bill, which sees the premiere of Lawrance’s new work, Burning, placed alongside three of Alston’s own pieces.
Earthy and gothic character-driven dance from balletLORENT
One of the most interesting things about Scottish Ballet’s changing double bill ...is the way it subtly changes the atmosphere of the show as a whole, re-contextualising the first piece, iWitness
There’s a clean, healthy lightness that runs through TaikaBox’s meditation on the limits of the body
‘I was not interested in the image of womanhood as it is presented by the media, nor in its visual aspect,’ says Vagnerová...
Eclectic, fascinating choreography is danced with precision and passion by this fine-tuned company...
Including a low-key pilot at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe of 2012, the 'Flash Mob' brand is now into its third iteration, and I must immediately confess to liking this show less than either of its predecessors.
Almost 20 years since it first premiered, Matthew Bourne's sharp, satirical and exquisitely beautiful Swan Lake feels as up to the minute as if it were choreographed last week.
There's a thread connecting the elemental ancient to the here and now, trailing slowly but firmly through Scottish Dance Theatre's double bill of new works.