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]

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]