The Jean-Christophe Maillot Romeo and Juliet, last week given its UK premiere by Northern Ballet, is a strange thing.
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30 dancers already confirmed include Natalia Osipova, Olga Smirnova, Semyon Chudin, Kim Kimin, Sarah Lamb, Xander Parish, Aline Cojocaru, Tamara Rojo, Marianela Nuňez and Thiago Soares.
Both Royal Ballet premieres, one by Kim Brandstrup, the other by Liam Scarlett, were surely keepers, bound to be seen again.
At the conclusion Liñán stalks over to the edge of the stage and looks at the front row of the stalls as if to challenge all comers to take him on.
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...
Flamenco in the hands of Ballet Nacional de España is far from the rough and ready peña experience: Antonio Najarro’s Madrid-based company offers instead precision-tooled dance...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
This year‘s highlight was an exuberant piece from Marcelino Sambé which provided a lively closer to an otherwise rather downbeat programme.
For dance fans, the chance to see Carmen Cortés is an unalloyed joy. When she abandons providing palmeos and steps to the front of the stage, she prowls cat-like around the music...
Draft Works 2015 features pieces by Joshua Beamish, Valentino Zucchetti, Sander Blommaert, Erico Montes & Marcelino Sambe. Gallery by Dave Morgan...
The whole ensemble had a refreshing zest for performance ...Although perhaps lacking in theatrical drama...
All up, another win for Ballet Black - a strong double bill of consequence and contrast preceded by a short amuse-bouche.
Gala Flamenca - part of Flamenco Festival London 2015 at Sadler's Wells. Pictures of Lucia Campillo, Karime Amaya and Carmen Coy. Foteini Christofilopoulou was at the photocall for us...
Full press release of English National Ballet's 2015/16 Season.
It is somewhat extraordinary that Anthony Dowell’s staging of Swan Lake is almost thirty years old, given the amount of reservations and mixed feelings it still elicits.
... 28 years on, what strikes you is how vital and of the moment the piece still seems.
Two brand new Ballet Black works, by Mark Bruce and Kit Holder, photographed by Dave Morgan...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
I'm a sucker for a children's show. The audience are just as demanding as grownups but there is the additional frisson of not knowing what they will get up to if excited... or just bored stiff.