Ballet Central 2024 Quad Bill in London - Review

★★★✰✰   Ballet Central's 2024 tour just kicked off at Sadler's Wells and neatly combines the traditional to the cutting edge new... [12 May 24]

National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica in Leicester - Review

★★★✰✰   A rare and welcome visit to Leicester's LDIF international dance festival from Jamaica's national company, a company with a particularly diverse selection of original work... [05 May 24]

Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sleeping Beauty in London - Review

★★★★✰   A second dose of classical magic as Miki Mizutani and Max Maslen lead out BRB at Sadler's Wells... [26 Apr 24]

Link of the Week - Royal Ballet School, "A Place to Dance" Documentary

This documentary, about both the Royal Ballet Lower and Upper Schools, is a terrific piece of London ballet nostalgia and a spot the young dancer/choreographer game... [18 Apr 24]

Aditi Mangaldas & Aakash Odedra, Mehek in London - Review

★★★★★   Mehek is a production that takes particularly fine ingredients and conjures a spellbinding take on love... [13 Apr 24]

KVN Dance Company in Coppelia - Review

★★★✰✰   This is Coppelia updated for a modern world, fusing ballet, contemporary dance, and hip-hop to a beat-driven Delibes score.... [12 Apr 24]

Scottish Ballet, Swan Lake in Glasgow - Review    

★★★✰✰   Eight years on from the premiere and Scottish Ballet has brought back a tweaked version of its Swan Lake. Thoughts from Bruce Marriott and Vicky Pollard... [06 Apr 24]

Mark Bruce Company, Frankenstein double bill in London - Review

★★★✰✰   Jonathan Goddard is the Monster and carries the show, be he reticently childlike in learning about himself, falling in love or as a vengeance-seeking murderer... [27 Mar 24]

Crystal Pite and Jonathon Young - Kidd Pivot in Assembly Hall in London - Review

★★★✰✰   A diverting and very different night of theatre dance at Sadler's Wells... [21 Mar 24]

Link of the Week - ismeneb.com

Ismene Brown's marvellous repository of her dance writing - "An archive of 25 years of British dance" is the subhead. [14 Mar 24]