Ballet Black, SHADOWS double bill in London - Review

★★★✰✰   The hard-working Ballet Black has just unveiled SHADOWS, their latest double bill of all-new work: fizzy and thoughtfully wide-ranging pieces that both entertain and provoke thought. [15 Mar 25]

Russell Maliphant Dance Company in maliphantworks4 - Review

★★★★★   Russell Maliphant and his company are back at The Coronet in Notting Hill for the fourth incarnation of maliphantworks. Drop everything – it's a 5-star jewel of a show... [11 Mar 25]

Scottish Ballet in Twice-Born bill including Schachmatt and Dive - Review

★★★★✰   Scottish Ballet is back in London with their Twice-Born contemporary double bill. A breath of fun and thoughtful freshness... [07 Mar 25]

Jasmin Vardimon Company: NOW - Review

★★✰✰✰   Jasmin Vardimon Company celebrate iconic moments from their 25-year history in NOW. Some stunning physical theatre if, sadly, in a confusing and over long context... [06 Mar 25]

Link of the Week - John Percival's review of Umwelt

In 2005, the great John Percival reviewed Compagnie Maguy Marin's Umwelt in just one rather surprising word... [05 Mar 25]

Wayne McGregor: Deepstaria - Review

★★★✰✰   Wayne McGregor's latest, Deepstaria, is about the void and named after a jellyfish. Interesting dance, but not always sure if it's in a void or not... [01 Mar 25]

Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company in Dragons - Review

★★✰✰✰   From Korea with multimedia love comes Eun-Me Ahn's Dragons, just starting it's UK tour. A colourful, strange and idiosyncratic mix of high- and low-tech... [26 Feb 25]

Royal Ballet in Crystal Pite’s Light of Passage - Review

★★★★★   A welcome return of Light of Passage at The Royal Ballet – Crystal Pite’s meditation on safe movement, displacement, community and mortality. First premiered in 2022, it remains a glorious and thought-provoking work. [21 Feb 25]

Link of the Week - A Telling Glimpse into the Touring Life

A very short and rather humbling Instagram post about ballet touring... [18 Feb 25]

Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Vollmond - Review

★★★★✰   Tanztheater Wuppertal are back in London with Pina Bausch's Vollmond - her take on the madness of love in all its rich extremes. Along with Peter Pabst's monumental set, it is a piece of dance theatre not to be missed. [17 Feb 25]