English National Ballet in the Nutcracker in Reviews

★★★✰✰   English National Ballet has just premiered its new Nutcracker with steps by Arielle Smith & director Aaron S. Watkin. Pacy, looks good, but needs a better transformation scene. 13 Dec 24

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in Reviews

★★★★✰   Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures is reviving & touring his groundbreaking male-oriented Swan Lake - first premiered 29 years ago. Is it still an iconic work? Absolutely... 12 Dec 24

Scottish Ballet in The Nutcracker in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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

Matthew Bourne & Co on creating his ground-breaking Swan Lake in 1995 in GreatLinks

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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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 in Reviews

★★★✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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 in Reviews

★★✰✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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