★★★★✰ The days run away like wild horses: The teeming vitality of this opening offers exuberant fun, as does the playfulness Collins adds to her source material...
Tag - Sadler’s Wells
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
★★★★✰ In his new ballet, Kenneth Tindall takes Casanova on an epic adventure in absorbing dance theatre that aligns his inventive choreography and mime with a strong and exciting narrative...
★★★✰✰ The South tour is particularly interesting this year because it features a new piece by Ruth Brill, a first artist within the company, and this is her first major commission.
★★★★✰ There’s an appealing simplicity to Jose Agudo’s first full-length company production.
Tango coach and dancer Nelida Rodriguez de Aure has been helping Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui with his show, "m¡longa". About to tour the UK it sees a unique coming together of tango and contemporary dancers. Diane Parkes talks to Nelida about the background and what makes tango so very special...
★★✰✰✰ There is no sense of who these people are, or why they are there.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ Weaker choreography might easily be overshadowed by the monumental capacity of the set and motion graphics, but Finnan’s work is equally imposing...
Graham Watts' citation, made before the presentation - a major appreciation of a huge star of dance and theatre...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★✰✰✰ Reviewing a youth dance company is always a tricky thing. These are not professional dancers although everything else about the production is a professional show.
★★★★✰ 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.
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★✰ It is impossible to review Betroffenheit without reference to the tragedy that sits behind it...
★★★★✰ 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...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
★★★★★ 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...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...