Pagrav Dance Company in Aunusthan - Review

★★★★✰   Pagrav Dance Company's Aunusthan is an hour long kathak taster, danced with live music in the intimate atmosphere of The Place in London. A rousing night of joyful dance. [17 Nov 24]

Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM - Review

★★✰✰✰   The Royal Ballet has just unveiled the European premiere of Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, a dance-take on Margaret Atwood's complex dystopian trilogy about extinction and survival. As ballet goes, it looks good and sounds wonderful, but the storytelling lets it down... terribly. [15 Nov 24]

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in EXIT ABOVE - Review

★★★★✰   Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's EXIT ABOVE is nominally about the act of walking but feels much more like a celebration of life and community and introduces us to the gorgeously baleful singing of Meskerem Mees... [13 Nov 24]

Chunky Move in 4/4 - Review

★★✰✰✰   Melbourne based Chunky Move bring their new 4/4 to London's Southbank Centre. Sadly, a night of low-key introspection rather than excitement... [09 Nov 24]

Royal Ballet and Others, Legacy Celebration - Review

★★★★✰   Royal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens, in collaboration with RB Director Kevin O'Hare, presented Legacy, a celebration of Black and Brown excellence in ballet. And a highly watchable night it proved... [30 Oct 24]

Birmingham Royal Ballet in La Fille mal gardée - Review

★★★★✰   Birmingham Royal Ballet just brought Frederick Ashton's glorious La Fille mal gardée to London. Great performances by Yu Kurihara and Yasiel Hodélin Bello, if it's a ballet with a problem character... [28 Oct 24]

Royal Ballet, Encounters: Four contemporary ballets - Review

★★★✰✰   A Royal Ballet night of new and recent works from Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, Joseph Toonga and Crystal Pite, delivers highs and lows with one spectacular hit and one spectacular miss... [23 Oct 24]

Scottish Ballet on Tour in Soto | Petipa | Squire | Laplane quad bill - Review

★★★★✰   Scottish Ballet is doing a mini-tour of three recent works, including a premiere, plus a terrific bit of classical froth - the Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker. It all makes for a fine night and in a fine theatre, too... [22 Oct 24]

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]