Some partnership work because the dancers are so different and others, as here, work because they share a style and approach - unaffected, nuanced, true and richly musical.
Tag - The Royal Ballet
In this revival of Wayne McGregor’s Raven Girl, Watson becomes something more than a postman...
Gallery by Dave Morgan...
For twelve years, the Fall for Dance festival has been going strong, and one can see why. No other dance series offer such an expansive, egalitarian and uncomplicated glimpse of what’s going on in dance...
To link with their exhibition of life drawings by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, Dulwich Picture Gallery are bringing the gallery to life with live music, live drawing and dance, which Dane Hurst is masterminding....
Blackburn has deconstructed the story of the play and the conventions of narrative dance. The only way to follow ‘the one-hour’s traffic of the stage’ is through video captions and quotations...
...a production that continues to set the standard against which later versions are measured.
Gallery by Dave Morgan, with Sarah Lamb and Steven McRae in the lead roles...
Graham Watts talks to an ex-RB Soloist doing well as a Principal at Romanian National Ballet...
Ballet Estable del Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires recently lived streamed Ashton's "Sylvia" from their home theatre. Graham Watts tuned in from a remote North Norfolk - it's a small world...
The overall standard of dancing of both NEBT and guests was very good - if the choreography was rather more mixed.
5 Questions to Jonathan Watkins about his new 1984 for Northern Ballet - premiering 5 September in Leeds...
Gallery by Foteini Christofilopoulou...
Q: What have you learned about Petipa from the notations? Ans: Looking at the notations changed my taste. Honestly, I just can’t stand seeing productions of the classics any more, because I know how far it is from Petipa’s intentions...
Dancers should be allowed to have fun, especially when they've worked as hard as Ivan Vasiliev and Natalia Osipova...
Dancing alone, Beamish introduces his movement: silky smooth shifts, surprising twitches, lines of energy rolling through the body...
Sylvie Guillem’s farewell programme at the Coliseum (following its modest Sadler’s Wells presentation in May) is a glorious spectacle in the largest theatre in London.
Jann Parry on the award winning Peter Schaufuss "La Sylphide", not seen in the UK in decades, and Li Cunxin's Queensland Ballet who are bringing it to London this summer. Includes an interview with Cunxin...
...it certainly showed that Osipova is a lightning bolt which can illuminate and energise everything she appears in.
I thought this year's Royal Ballet School (RBS) performance on the main Royal Opera House stage was pretty damn' good.