★★★✰✰ Starstruck is subtitled "Gene Kelly's Love Letter to Ballet" - it's a ballet about jazzy dancing fizz and if that connects with us then its work is really done.
Tag - Glasgow
'Dive', by Sophie Laplane for Scottish Ballet, will premiere on Thursday 29 April to celebrate International Dance Day. For a heads-up we talked to Laplane about the new short film, co-created with James Bonas and directed by Oscar Sansom.
★★★★★ Scottish Ballet have come up with a delightfully life-affirming present to blow away the Covid blues this Christmas. It's not a film of an existing ballet, as we usually see at this time of year, but a ballet feature film - something made just for the camera and in which the camera is choreographed into the action. The result is a huge success...
★★★✰✰ Although An Evening with Scottish Ballet could have been better presented by the Edinburgh Festival, the programme showcases an enterprising company full of ideas...
★★★★✰ Bruce Marriott takes a second look at Scottish Ballet's new Christmas hit - one day, two shows, many different dancers...
A huge welcome to Araminta Wraith, Scottish Ballet soloist and DanceTabs guest blogger during this, the companies 50th anniversary season.
★★★★✰ This is my second review of Scottish Ballet's Cinderella this winter. Why? Well, it's a production I like and I wanted to see more dancers in it, silly!
Scottish Ballet have just announced plans for their Fiftieth Anniversary in 2019, including three world premieres - we have the full press release and touch-base with CEO/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson about the celebrations and what happens beyond...
★★★★✰ Absolutely fascinating... Scottish Ballet should feel very proud of celebrating MacMillan in such a thoughtful way...
★★★★✰ Each Other makes you reflect and think - and it deserves to be seen much more widely.
★★★★✰ ...a great communal effort by the whole company and one that stretches out to embrace kids in the cities it plays to - showing new generations how relevant and effortlessly entertaining ballet can be.
★★★★★ It's perhaps a term too often used, but "It doesn't get better than this" is what came immediately to mind at the end.
★★★✰✰ Sophie Martin's Odette/Odille, despite the costume, steals the show with layers of dramatic nuance on top of the pushed lines of Dawson's steps.
Scottish Ballet's autumn bill is an uplifting affair with everything on it new to the company...
5 Questions to Alexander Whitley on his up and coming premiere, Frames, for Rambert. It gets unveiled in Glasgow on the 5 March and then tours. All you need to know from the man himself...
Scottish Ballet's new double bill features ballets by experienced choreographers about two not-so-different communities: small-town Wales and narrow-minded Salem...
Glasgow's West End Festival gets a dance component this year - curator Freya Jeffs tells all on the plans...
Perhaps it's the case that our receptors for beauty lie close in the brain to those for horror: what else could explain how a story about two young lovers dying a needless, violent death should be so passionately, tragically beautiful.
Christopher Hampson's production, set to Engelbert Humperdinck's 1893 opera score, dances round traditional perceptions of good and evil, raising sinister notions about the invisibility of danger lurking in the real world.
An imaginatively contrasting double-bill, it pulled in audiences and left them buzzing.