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]

Michael Keegan-Dolan / Teaċ Daṁsa in Nobodaddy - Review

★★★★✰   Michael Keegan-Dolan / Teaċ Daṁsa are back at Sadler's Wells with their latest work: Nobodaddy - an ode to the peacemakers and the bringers of good things. WTF... [28 Nov 24]

Link of the Week - Matthew Bourne & Co on creating his ground-breaking Swan Lake in 1995

Matthew Bourne, Adam Cooper and others recall creating the trailblazing Swan Lake production back in 1995 - by Rachel Cooke for The Observer. [26 Nov 24]

Birmingham Royal Ballet in The Nutcracker - Review

★★★★✰   Birmingham Royal Ballet has just opened its home theatre Nutcracker season. It's more than a good'un & has been for well over 30 years now. [24 Nov 24]

Akram Khan's GIGENIS - Review

★★★✰✰   Akram Khan's GIGENIS features a sparkling team of Indian classical dancers & musicians. Cracking ingredients if dramatically it's a hard read. [21 Nov 24]

Pagrav Dance Company in Aunusthan - Review

★★★★✰   Pagrav Dance Company's Aunusthan is an hour long kathak taster, danced with live music in the intimate atmosphere of The Place in London. A rousing night of joyful dance. [17 Nov 24]

Royal Ballet in Wayne McGregor’s MADDADDAM - Review

★★✰✰✰   The Royal Ballet has just unveiled the European premiere of Wayne McGregor's MADDADDAM, a dance-take on Margaret Atwood's complex dystopian trilogy about extinction and survival. As ballet goes, it looks good and sounds wonderful, but the storytelling lets it down... terribly. [15 Nov 24]

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's Rosas in EXIT ABOVE - Review

★★★★✰   Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's EXIT ABOVE is nominally about the act of walking but feels much more like a celebration of life and community and introduces us to the gorgeously baleful singing of Meskerem Mees... [13 Nov 24]

Chunky Move in 4/4 - Review

★★✰✰✰   Melbourne based Chunky Move bring their new 4/4 to London's Southbank Centre. Sadly, a night of low-key introspection rather than excitement... [09 Nov 24]

Royal Ballet and Others, Legacy Celebration - Review

★★★★✰   Royal Ballet principal Joseph Sissens, in collaboration with RB Director Kevin O'Hare, presented Legacy, a celebration of Black and Brown excellence in ballet. And a highly watchable night it proved... [30 Oct 24]