Features Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambé being coached in the studio by Leanne Benjamin and Edward Watson. A special photoshoot at the Royal Ballet by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
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★★★★★ Starting 2022 on an optimistic footing for dance and performance that centres on the work of black artists from the African diaspora, interdisciplinary performer and choreographer Toussaint Buck curates a spectacularly rich programme at the Lilian Baylis...
★★★★✰ Rojo has achieved an excellent feat of artistic engineering; creating a fully-functioning, enjoyable new model out of a redundant artefact.
★★★★✰ ...an unexpected, joyful delight, performed with skill and nonchalance...
English National Ballet's long-delayed Raymonda, by Tamara Rojo, at last gets its premiere at London's Coliseum on the 18 Jan 2022. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ The Royal Ballet pull together in difficult conditions to make a show happen as well as possible, for which we applaud them with grateful pleasure.
At a busy time, 5 very short questions and 5 very short answers...
With Lauren Cuthbertson and William Bracewell in the lead and Isabella Gasparini as Clara. Performances of The Nutcracker are set to resume at The Royal Opera House on 5 January 2022. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★✰✰ "The English National Ballet 'Nutcracker' is a bit of alright and it's almost bound to send you home happier than you arrived." starts Bruce Marriott's review of a Christmas ballet that can both please and give pause for thought...
★★★★✰ With his Nutcracker! Matthew Bourne really wants the audience to have a good time and he knows how to deliver it...
★★★✰✰ Akram Khan dedicates his solo Xenos to the anonymous Indian soldiers who lost their lives in the trenches of WW1 fighting a battle that wasn’t theirs.
★★★★✰ The uniqueness of this R&J lies not with Sergei Polunin but in the love letter it represents between the choreographer, Johan Kobborg, and his life partner, Alina Cojocaru.
★★★★✰ Stunning performances, an inspired choice of choreographers and a surprise film, remind us that Scottish Dance Theatre is a company to celebrate and get very excited about.
★★★★✰ The annual ballet gala organised by Olga Balakleets and Ensemble Productions was deferred to the end of this year because of coronavirus restrictions. Fortunately, invited dancers from European countries were able to travel before the latest measures were imposed...
★★✰✰✰ Akram Khan’s UK premiere of Outwitting the Devil is an exasperating puzzle. Opaque hints of mythological narrative offer challenges to the viewer; but it also contains some beautiful, sculptural moments and gorgeously fluent, liquid moments.
★★★★✰ Tchaikovsky’s music for The Nutcracker may be played ad nauseam in shops and public spaces over Christmas, but the ballet for which he wrote it is the real deal – especially in this production.
★★★★★ Thanks to Yolande Yorke-Edgell and her company, Robert Cohan was able to continue creating dance works for performance up until his death in January this year at the age of 95...
★★★★✰ "Uttarayan, a kite festival from Gujarat in northern India, is the inspiration for Kattam Katti... It’s cheering right now to see something celebratory and good-humoured, and the audience adored it."
★★★★✰ Featuring "Poems and Tiger Eggs" by Darius James and Amy Doughty, "Murmurations" by Liam Riddick and "Isolated Pulse" by Marcus Jarrell Willis...
★★★✰✰ Seventeen months after Andrew McNicol announced the launch of his company, with its debut scheduled for April 2020, his programme of four new works has finally reached the stage...