Flamenco Festival 2025 continued at Sadler’s Wells with two contrasting shows from Compañías Manuel Liñan and Mercedes Ruiz Compañía Manuel Liñan, Muerta de Amor 3* London first met flamenco dancer Manuel Liñan in 2022, when he brought his all-conquering show…
Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko raise Onegin to new heights in The Royal Ballet’s revival of Cranko’s masterpiece John Cranko’s 1965 ballet Onegin, a prodigy of concise story-telling, never fails to land an emotional punch. For dancers it offers a…
Traplord, Ivan Michael Blackstock’s award-winning exploration of Black masculinity, had a welcome revival run at Sadler’s Wells East An intricate mix of dance, music, the spoken word, video game, scenic design and a little posturing, Traplord is impossible to categorise. …
Ballet BC brings a programme of cutting-edge contemporary dance by Crystal Pite and Johan Inger to Sadler’s Wells Vancouver-based Ballet BC (British Columbia) is Canada’s foremost contemporary dance company. Its stated aim is “to create dance at its most essential:…
A Night With Boy Blue: Generation Blue showcased the power and influence of hip hop across the UK A Night With Boy Blue – Generation Blue was a joyous show, proof, if proof were needed, of just how far this…
Jane Eyre brings Charlotte Brontë’s novel to the ballet stage courtesy of choreographer Cathy Marston and Northern Ballet Charlotte Brontë’s 19th century Romantic novel, with its triumphant cry of “Reader, I married him!” is justly admired for the character of…
Ballet to Broadway is a Royal Ballet mixed bill highlighting the talent and versatility of choreographer Christopher Wheeldon Ballet to Broadway fairly describes Christopher Wheeldon’s artistic path from dancer with Royal Ballet and then New York City Ballet, through dance maker…
Carlos Acosta’s The Maiden of Venice re-imagines a “problematic” classic, the ballet La Bayadère, for his BRB company The Maiden of Venice, as Carlos Acosta has named his re-imagined La Bayadère, will, he hopes, sidestep the problems raised by the…
Rambert x (LA) HORDE, a timely collaboration, offers a pulsating, if uneven, triple bill at the QEH, Southbank Rambert is the UK’s foremost contemporary dance company and under the direction of Benoit Swan Pouffer an increasingly daring, inquisitive, boundary-busting outfit.…
BRB2, the junior company of Birmingham Royal Ballet, pays homage to Diaghilev in its brand new touring programme The early 20th century Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes took Paris by storm, was key to the development of ballet…