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]

Northern Ballet, Three Short Ballets in Leeds - Review

★★★★✰   Northern Ballet's latest triple bill successfully fuses a nearly 50-year-old classic by Rudi van Dantzig to a newly minted and substantial work by Mthuthuzeli November and a 5 minute shorty from Kristen McNally... [08 Sep 24]

Ballet Nights 006 / The Cadogan Hall Concert in London - Review

★★★✰✰   Ballet Nights 006 moves to a fine new location at Chelsea's Cadogan Hall and amongst 10 pieces features strong work by Pett|Clausen-Knight, James Wilton and Grace O'Brien... [05 Sep 24]

State Ballet of Georgia, Swan Lake in London - Review

★★★✰✰   A first visit to London by Nina Ananiashvili's State Ballet of Georgia and with a usefully pared back classical Swan Lake. Some mismatched casting means we don't hit all the highs until a magical last act. [29 Aug 24]

National Youth Ballet, Evolving Visions bill in Birmingham - Review

★★★✰✰   National Youth Ballet has the vision that 'young people will create the ballet of the future'. We catch up with their latest show of 8 unashamedly modern works; each confidently danced with much joie de vivre. [24 Aug 24]

London City Ballet, Resurgence quad bill in Windsor - Review

★★★✰✰   After an absence of almost 30 years, it's good to see London City Ballet bouncing back and touring widely. The aptly named Resurgence bill features four interestingly diverse works if, at just 60 minutes of dancing, the night feels a little too short. [10 Aug 24]