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A Single Man Ballet Review 4*

First came the novel, then the film, now Christopher Isherwood’s gay novel A Single Man becomes a ballet Grief fractures you.  And if it’s grief you can’t share with those around you, it becomes even more corrosive.   Such is…

ZooNation Youth Company Review 4*

ZooNation Youth Company brought the Next Generation Festival to a blistering end with an explosion of hip hop  ZooNation Youth Company claims to include some of the best young hip hop dancers in the country – and on this showing…

Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet Review 2*

Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet  based on The Who’s eponymous rock opera arrived at Sadler’s Wells amid much hype Two full pages of credits attest to the amount of creative effort that went into turning The Who’s celebrated 1973 rock opera…

The Royal Ballet School Review 3*

The Royal Ballet School displayed its students’ choreographic talent with a packed programme at the Next Generation Festival  The art of choreography is important to The Royal Ballet School. When it was founded by Dame Ninette de Valois in 1926,…

A Single Man, The Ballet (News Feature)

Dancer Jonathan Goddard talks to Ballet Position about his two roles in the new ballet, A Single Man A Single Man is a study in grief.  Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel traces a day in the life of George, a middle-aged…

Paris Opera Junior Ballet Review 3*

Paris Opera Junior Ballet joined the Next Generation Festival at the Linbury Theatre with a challenging quadruple bill What a difference 90 minutes makes.   For Paris Opera Junior Ballet it was the difference between a hesitant, seemingly uncomfortable group…

Ballet Central Review 4*

Ballet Central brought flair and originality to Next Generation Festival with a bill of gems old and new Ballet Central is the touring company of the London-based Central School of Ballet. Unlike the junior companies we’ve seen in this year’s…