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]

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]