★★★✰✰ Each performance of Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography will be different, since its composition is to be determined by an algorithm based on his genetic code. ...whatever a reviewer describes will never be the same again.
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★★★★✰ The devisers of the work have a keen eye and ear for the inanities of corporate management-speak and the way that bruising encounters can sometimes be punctuated by faux bonhomie.
The company danced the first 3 sections of Autobiography for photographers. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ Lithuania punches well above its weight as a propagator of modern dance and it is a pleasure and a privilege to have one of its leading cultural exports based here in the UK.
★★★✰✰ Belles-Lettres – a piece by NYCB’s Justin Peck, reworked for Acosta Danza – is a sweepingly pretty pieces for nine dancers, all floaty, gorgeous frocks and increasingly impassioned duets...
★★★✰✰ Wheeldon and his scenarist, Nicholas Wright, have made theatrical sense of a nonsensical children’s classic. This Alice, though, is a modern pantomime, not a classic ballet.
With Akane Takada in the lead role. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★★ A production that seems destined to become a masterpiece of early 21st Century contemporary ballet.
★★★✰✰ It is a fascinating show, especially if you can bear to stand in warm surroundings for an hour...
The Akram Khan version with Tamara Rojo in the lead. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★✰✰✰ The end of the world is here – let’s party. This, roughly, is the premise of Grand Finale, Hofesh Shechter’s latest wild and whirling work, in which he grapples with our apocalyptic times...
★★★★✰ The physicality of 5 Soldiers during the hour-long performance brings home the breaking of bodies...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Iceland Dance Company are about to present the UK premiere of Sacrifice at London's Royal Festival Hall - so an excellent time to catch up with Erna Ómarsdóttir, their choreographing director...
★★★★✰ From the moment Kimin Kim enters with a flourish as Solor in Act I of La Bayadère, we know we’re in for a treat.
★★★✰✰ When Maya Plisetskaya commissioned a Carmen-based ballet from Alberto Alonso, co-founder of the National Ballet of Cuba, she wanted to shake up Soviet ballet conventions...
With Viktoria Tereshkina and Kimin Kim in the lead. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov in the lead roles. Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
With Diana Vishneva in the lead. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ Hoffalt brings an elegantly mature intelligence to the part... Laurretta Summerscales will leave a hole in the company when she takes her sabbatical next season...