BalletLORENT tours Snow White: The Sacrifice, a visceral, hard-hitting, strictly for grown-ups treatment of the famous fairy tale We tend to think of fairy tales as pretty, cosy stories well suited to the imagination and sensitivities of children, their endings…
An ideal Easter outing for families, English National Ballet’s My First Ballet: Swan Lake is at the Peacock There were babes in arms and toddlers in strollers. There were little girls in sequinned tulle skirts – pink, naturally. Amazingly well-behaved…
English National Ballet’s The Forsythe Programme brings superb artistry, virtuoso dancing and unalloyed joy to Sadler’s Wells Theatre Who says ballet can’t be fun? Certainly not the exhilarated Sadler’s Wells audience who rose as one to cheer and applaud the…
National and international choreographic talent featured in the 2025 edition of International Draft Works at the RBO Linbury It’s not meant as a collection of definitive finished works. Rather, International Draft Works, a Royal Ballet initiative that brings together budding…
McNicol Ballet Collective marks its fifth anniversary with a programme of old and new choreography by Andrew McNicol The choreographer Andrew McNicol is unequivocal about the role of classical ballet in his work. It’s in his DNA, he says, and…
Dances new and old by Pam Tanowitz and Balanchine elevated week 3 of Dance Reflections to new heights A premiere from the New York choreographer Pam Tanowitz and a cross-section of work by George Balanchine, the third giant of 20th…
A young audience relished a performance of Romeo and Juliet, part of The Royal Ballet’s Schools Matinees programme Very few thrills beat watching a live stage performance in a theatre packed with schoolchildren. Their uncontained excitement and their unfiltered,…
Week 2 of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels ranged from the sublime to the frankly tedious In the UK now we rarely see work from the second giant of contemporary dance featured in Dance Reflections by Van Cleef…
Week 1 of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels brought a range of postmodern dance to London London is hosting its second Dance Reflections festival, sponsored by the French Maison of Jewellery Van Cleef & Arpels, which has a…
Human shadows and dancing drapes join Russell Maliphant on stage at the Coronet Theatre in the new maliphantworks4 Dancer and choreographer Russel Maliphant has accustomed us to shows of remarkable immersive power, where his characteristic hybrid movement combines with sound…
Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko raise MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet to a new level on its 60th anniversary… In a lifetime of watching dance, many performances have, with time, slipped entirely out of my mind. Others remain as cherished, if…
International ballet stars converged on the London Coliseum for Ballet Icons Gala 2025, this annual event’s latest edition Old and new, classical and contemporary, the 16 pieces that made up the Ballet Icons Gala 2025 had much to commend them,…