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

Chunky Move in 4/4 in Reviews

★★✰✰✰   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 in Reviews

★★★★✰   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

Birmingham Royal Ballet in La Fille mal gardée in Reviews

★★★★✰   Birmingham Royal Ballet just brought Frederick Ashton's glorious La Fille mal gardée to London. Great performances by Yu Kurihara and Yasiel Hodélin Bello, if it's a ballet with a problem character... 28 Oct 24

Royal Ballet, Encounters: Four contemporary ballets in Reviews

★★★✰✰   A Royal Ballet night of new and recent works from Kyle Abraham, Pam Tanowitz, Joseph Toonga and Crystal Pite, delivers highs and lows with one spectacular hit and one spectacular miss... 23 Oct 24

Scottish Ballet on Tour in Soto | Petipa | Squire | Laplane quad bill in Reviews

★★★★✰   Scottish Ballet is doing a mini-tour of three recent works, including a premiere, plus a terrific bit of classical froth - the Grand Pas de Deux from The Nutcracker. It all makes for a fine night and in a fine theatre, too... 22 Oct 24