Ballet Black – Cristaux, To Begin, Begin, Storyville – London
★★★★✰ I’ve long admired Ballet Black’s efforts to make ballet a more accessible art form to both dancers and audiences who’ve historically been excluded from it.
Ballet Black – To Fetch a Pail of Water?, Depouillement, Second Coming – London
All up, another win for Ballet Black – a strong double bill of consequence and contrast preceded by a short amuse-bouche.
Gallery – Ballet Black in Second Coming and To Fetch a Pail of Water?
Two brand new Ballet Black works, by Mark Bruce and Kit Holder, photographed by Dave Morgan…
Ballet Central and Friends Gala – London
This glitzy evening proved that the Central School of Ballet has friends in abundance (or perhaps that should be hyphenated to “a-bun-dance”) but the aim of this gala event was clearly to encourage a few more.
Ballet Black – A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Limbo, Two of a Kind – London
Now in its thirteenth year, Ballet Black’s specialness is not the colour of its performers’ skin but the quality and quantity of the works its director, Cassa Pancho, commissions: over 30 new ballets to date. Where else could ballet dancers experience such a cornucopia of creativity?
