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]

Varna International Ballet in Swan Lake - Review

★★★✰✰   Varna International Ballet are currently touring the UK with 3 classics. We caught their Swan Lake in Basingstoke - it's big on youthful energy if the narrative could be tighter... [23 Jan 25]

English National Ballet, Mary Skeaping's Giselle in London - Review

★★★★✰   Mary Skeaping's Giselle is over 50 years old, as traditional as traditional can be & is back for a short run at the London Coliseum. The best production in the UK & it just keeps delivering... [16 Jan 25]

Link of the Week - Dance View Times

Well below the popular radar is a site that has been stuffed full with great writers and writing these last 20+ years... [10 Jan 25]

End of the Year and a Dance Hope for 2025

Some thoughts and hopes around dance publicity and programme notes [01 Jan 25]

Royal Ballet in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella - Review

★★✰✰✰   This year, the Royal Ballet has revived Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella as its Christmas ballet. When it’s good, it’s very good, but it really ought to be revised rather than revived. [30 Dec 24]

Protein Dance in The Little Prince - Review

★★★✰✰   This years Christmas family show at The Place in London is based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fantastical book about an extraterrestrial. It's quite a surreal ride... [22 Dec 24]

English National Ballet in Nutcracker - Review

★★★✰✰   English National Ballet has just premiered its new Nutcracker with steps by Arielle Smith & director Aaron S. Watkin. Pacy, looks good, but needs a better transformation scene. [13 Dec 24]

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake - Review

★★★★✰   Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures is reviving & touring his groundbreaking male-oriented Swan Lake - first premiered 29 years ago. Is it still an iconic work? Absolutely... [12 Dec 24]

Scottish Ballet in The Nutcracker - Review

★★★✰✰   SB just unveiled their new take on The Nutcracker using the choreographic input of many in the company. And that input really delivers unexpected vibrancy to a Christmas classic. [08 Dec 24]