Place Resolution 2025, Lucy Turner, Athena Choi-Ha Leung and Maria Garcia in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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 in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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

Dance View Times in GreatLinks

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 in Features

Some thoughts and hopes around dance publicity and programme notes 01 Jan 25

Royal Ballet in Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella in Reviews

★★✰✰✰   This year, the Royal Ballet has revived Frederick Ashton’s Cinderella as its Christmas ballet. When it’s good, it’s very good, but it really ought to be revised rather than revived. 30 Dec 24

Protein Dance in The Little Prince in Reviews

★★★✰✰   This years Christmas family show at The Place in London is based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's fantastical book about an extraterrestrial. It's quite a surreal ride... 22 Dec 24