★★★✰✰ In the event, the levels of polish and invention were quite remarkable given the circumstances.
Tag - New English Ballet Theatre
★★★✰✰ Dutch National Ballet Junior Company at the ROH Young Talent Festival with 5 works – No Time Before Time, Fuse, What Got You Here, Fingers in the Air and In The Future.
★★★✰✰ Both pieces are demanding and elicit some impressively stylish moments, though there’s a fair amount of unevenness...
We talk to Jenna Lee about her work - The Four Seasons - for New English Ballet Theatre's autumn tour this September and October. That and about her wider choreographic practice...
★★★✰✰ Some of these pieces are more successful than others but the dancers seize the opportunities with relish...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ Jérôme Bel’s Gala turns the performer/spectator dynamic and the act of performance itself, inside-out...
The overall standard of dancing of both NEBT and guests was very good - if the choreography was rather more mixed.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
This year‘s highlight was an exuberant piece from Marcelino Sambé which provided a lively closer to an otherwise rather downbeat programme.
If you are keen on seeing new work, this is an attractive package of five varied pieces which is very well presented.
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
At the outset I have to say I thought this year was one of the better years and we should all feel encouraged at the creativity on show.
This is the 19th LCB production and a remarkable total of 7,500 children have auditioned over this time, with just 669 making it into the company...
20 pictures by Dave Morgan...
The evening certainly demonstrated the admirable qualities of the SFB dancers: their hard-working, good-humoured, go-for-it approach and the range of different talents in the company. The goodwill they generate in the audience is remarkable. Here’s hoping they come back for a return visit soon.
All in all, this was a programme that delivered what Karen Pilkington-Miksa and her team set out to achieve for which she (and they) deserve our considerable applause. ...NEBT allows one more throw of the die but these young dancers still need a “double 6” to win contracts for more sustainable jobs.
27 pictures by Dave Morgan...
It’s a very special time when a new company is formed and about to give its very first performance – we caught up with the founding director…