★★★✰✰ 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.
★★★★✰ 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...
★★★★✰ 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
Eclectic, fascinating choreography is danced with precision and passion by this fine-tuned company...
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.
An imaginatively contrasting double-bill, it pulled in audiences and left them buzzing.
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!
In my book nobody has ever truly rivalled Christopher Bruce in the role, either for pathos or style, but Luke Ahmet came close.
Seeing dancers dance up close is a very good thing says Bruce Marriott. So is following them around the East End in a ghostly Victorian world...
Press Release 12 March 2013 SCOTTISH BALLET presents DANCE ODYSSEYS Edinburgh International Festival Festival Theatre Edinburgh Friday 16 – Monday 19 August 2013 Scottish Ballet invites Edinburgh International Festival audiences to experience dance differently this August with a four day journey into the curious, the conceptual and the most creative world of dance. Featuring world premieres...