★★★★✰ Nafisah Baba is the BBC Young Dancer for 2017. The 20 year-old contemporary dancer from West London won the award with a diverse trio of dances that grew stronger through the rounds.
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★★✰✰✰ For western audience tastes, there is quite a heavy dose of melodrama in this Mulan – Matthew Ma’s overblown score of soaring strings ramps this up further.
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★★★★✰ Men and Girls Dance is a touching and joyful demonstration of optimism about us humans in an increasingly bleak age.
★★★★✰ It is impossible to review Betroffenheit without reference to the tragedy that sits behind it...
★★★✰✰ If you like to keep an arm’s distance between you and the contemporary dance you’re watching, then Vera Tussing is probably not for you.
After a few years below the radar Vanessa Fenton has been quietly bouncing back choreographically and this month presented her own double bill at Siobhan Davies Dance Studies and once again contributed a piece to the Royal Ballet's latest Draft Works bill.
★★★★✰ Matthew Bourne celebrates the 30th anniversary of his own company at the same time as Tate Britain has launched "Queer British Art 1861-1967" to mark the 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality. "Early Adventures" could be a theatrical coda to the exhibition...
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★★★★★ One cannot help but observe that while the programmes of other companies both hit and miss, in terms of their critical appreciation and popular appeal, ENB is continually raising the bar...
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★★★★★ The ballet is a triumph, of course. It really is... Wheeldon and his collaborators have reclaimed the Gershwins’ music and songs for a five-star production...
Flight Pattern: ★★★★★, After the Rain: ★★★✰✰, Human Seasons: ★★✰✰✰. Like Gorecki, Crystal Pite has created a memorable and moving work full of meaning...
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★★★★✰ The long gala (three and a half hours with one interval) was well organised, with no speeches and no protracted curtain calls.
The Royal Ballet in perhaps the most eagerly anticipated premiere of the season - Crystal Pite's "Flight Pattern". Also on the bill are Christopher Wheeldon's "After the Rain" and David Dawson's "Human Seasons". Dave Morgan was at the photocall for us...