Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage - Review

★★★★★   A welcome return of Light of Passage at The Royal Ballet – Crystal Pite’s meditation on safe movement, displacement, community and mortality. First premiered in 2022, it remains a glorious and thought-provoking work. [21 Feb 25]

Link of the Week - A Telling Glimpse into the Touring Life

A very short and rather humbling Instagram post about ballet touring... [18 Feb 25]

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond - Review

★★★★✰   Tanztheater Wuppertal are back in London with Pina Bausch's Vollmond - her take on the madness of love in all its rich extremes. Along with Peter Pabst's monumental set, it is a piece of dance theatre not to be missed. [17 Feb 25]

Place Resolution 2025, Blue Ka Wing, Orla Hardie and Lily Kind - Review

★★★✰✰   My last visit to the Place Resolution festival and all three works brought something memorable or special to the party; if none went on to fully join all the dots... [16 Feb 25]

HUMANHOOD Dance Company: ∞ {Infinite} - Review

★★✰✰✰   HUMANHOOD Dance Company's ∞ {Infinite} is their first 'Dance Theatre Meditation' work. Can it really plug us back into our spiritual side? [13 Feb 25]

Scottish Ballet in The Nutcracker - Review

★★★★✰   We reviewed the premiere and now at the end of its long tour a second look at Scottish Ballet's new Nutcracker - a report of a happy awayday to Newcastle [08 Feb 25]

Place Resolution 2025, Lucy Turner, Athena Choi-Ha Leung and Maria Garcia - Review

★★★✰✰   A third sampling of the Place Resolution festival and three works varying from the really professional to the downright confusing. [07 Feb 25]

Christos Papadopoulos: Larsen C - Review

★★★✰✰   Christos Papadopoulos' Larsen C, nominated for the 2025 Rose Prize, is named after the slowly breaking up Antarctic ice sheet. Striking movement, if it could do with an edit... [05 Feb 25]

Place Resolution 2025, Casper Dillen/Small Sample Size Theatre and Shiyu Lu/Haonan Ma - Review

★★★★✰   My second Resolution 2025 review - a fine show that featured the most exciting piece of physical theatre I have ever seen at Resolution. [04 Feb 25]

Place Resolution 2025, Congfang Xiao, Brooke Sorensen and Eve Walker - Review

★★★✰✰   My first review at Resolution 2025 and, as ever, it proved a night of wide-reaching and adventurous dance. [26 Jan 25]