The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 17th National Dance Awards,
Tag - English National Ballet
★★★✰✰ The last act redeems the evening. We learn more about the characters in the final 40 minutes than in the two preceding acts.
Gary Harris has had one of the most varied ballet careers you can get... dancer, teacher, ballet master, artistic director, designer and notator. Now he's working with the Royal Ballet to bring back Kenneth MacMillan’s Anastasia - Jann Parry went for a chat.
★★★✰✰ In a nutshell Bintley's Tempest is a visual triumph but feels slight choreographically and you'd be well advised to mug up on the story before seeing it.
★★★✰✰ As UK ballet commissions go, it's probably the most anticipated of the season and really a career defining decision by Tamara Rojo. This is the way dance moves forward, by the art talking creative risk and if it's not the full ten tenths yet, then it's another solid step along the way...
★★★✰✰ I was eager to see American Ballet Theatre’s Sleeping Beauty, mounted by Alexei Ratmansky last year, because of the enthusiastic reviews it has received in the United States. The Paris premiere, however, met with muted acclaim...
★★★★✰ Vega has assembled an impressive team for the first leg of her new dance company’s journey. However, she is the talisman throughout.
★★★★✰ The entire company looks strong and well disciplined.
English National Ballet recently held their 2016 Emerging Dancer Competition at the London Palladium. Bruce Marriott reports on a good event done well...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
5 Questions to Ludovic Ondiviela on his latest work ('Sliver of Sky') starring dancers from The Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and Rambert...
★★★✰✰ Rojo has succeeded in securing one really stimulating work in Broken Wings.
English National Ballet in works by Aszure Barton, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Yabin Wang. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★✰✰ Every gala needs a revelation, and this one was provided by Sergio Bernal, a Spanish dancer who dominated the stage in an imperious farruca solo from Antonio’s flamenco version of The Three Cornered Hat...
★★★★★ "What a joy to have Rhapsody back in its original setting..."
2015 National Dance Awards – The Nominations Gallery of awards pictures Press release 25 January 2016 The 16th National Dance Awards The Place, London: 25th January 2016 The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2015 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Arlene Phillips CBE. Unusually, the judges decided to give two De Valois Awards for Outstanding Achievement in 2015 to...
Brooklyn Mack dances with Washington Ballet but has recently been wowing British audiences with English National Ballet in their wonderful "Le Corsaire". Margaret Willis, much impressed, caught up with him for a chat...
Audiences everywhere should be impressed by the consistently high standard of the company’s dancing. ENB is proof that artists from many different countries, backgrounds and training can be formed into a cohesive ensemble.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories this last year…