Sadler's Wells Young Associates Four bill 2024 - Review

★★★✰✰   This years Sadler's Wells Young Associates Four bill features works by Roseann and Sula, Maiya Leeke, Elisabeth Mulenga and BLUE MAKWANA. A night big on dance theatre, foundation-shaking bass and Haze... [16 Oct 24]

Hofesh Shechter Company in Theatre of Dreams! - Review

★★✰✰✰   Hofesh Shechter Company are at Sadler's Wells with their new Theatre of Dreams!, a long stream-of-consciousness take on what we all do each night - dream. It can be a tedious work, but there is also some tremendous movement on display... [12 Oct 24]

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Luna - Review

★★✰✰✰   Birmingham Royal Ballet has just premiered 'Luna', their tribute, using a flotilla of creatives, to the great women of Birmingham. Sadly, mission creep has led to a confused and exasperating work... [05 Oct 24]

National Ballet of Canada in Frontiers: Choreographers of Canada (Pite/Kudelka/Portner) - Review

★★★★✰   The National Ballet of Canada are in London with an all Canadian bill of modern works featuring choreography by Crystal Pite, James Kudelka and Emma Portner. A terrific night of 21st-century ballet... [03 Oct 24]

Chicos Mambo in TUTU - LiftedLeg Review

★★★✰✰   Ten years and 700 performances after its creation, Chicos Mambo bring their humorous feel-good show, TUTU, to London for a short run at the Peacock. In terrific costumes, it proved energetic, good-natured, whimsical and exhausting by turns... [02 Oct 24]

Aishwarya Raut's Nadī in London - Review

★★★★✰   Aishwarya Raut unveils Nadī as part of the Totally Thames Festival - a dramatic duet that appropriately picks up on the river of life. It might be early days in Raut's dance-making career, but on show is a particularly distinctive movement vocabulary that makes you sit up and want more... [22 Sep 24]

English National Ballet, Akram Khan's Giselle in London - Review

★★★★✰   English National Ballet has brought back Akram Khan's Giselle - a radical take on an old ballet and one that really delivers an emotional 20-century punch... [19 Sep 24]

Northern Ballet, Three Short Ballets in Leeds - Review

★★★★✰   Northern Ballet's latest triple bill successfully fuses a nearly 50-year-old classic by Rudi van Dantzig to a newly minted and substantial work by Mthuthuzeli November and a 5 minute shorty from Kristen McNally... [08 Sep 24]

Ballet Nights 006 / The Cadogan Hall Concert in London - Review

★★★✰✰   Ballet Nights 006 moves to a fine new location at Chelsea's Cadogan Hall and amongst 10 pieces features strong work by Pett|Clausen-Knight, James Wilton and Grace O'Brien... [05 Sep 24]

State Ballet of Georgia, Swan Lake in London - Review

★★★✰✰   A first visit to London by Nina Ananiashvili's State Ballet of Georgia and with a usefully pared back classical Swan Lake. Some mismatched casting means we don't hit all the highs until a magical last act. [29 Aug 24]