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David Mead reports on the hugely entertaining and superbly performed 'Barker', created by Barak Marshall of Barak Marsha...
15/07/2025

David Mead reports on the hugely entertaining and superbly performed 'Barker', created by Barak Marshall of Barak Marshall Dance Theatre for Gauthier Dance Juniors. Presented at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart as part of the Colours International Dance Festival.

"It’s full of boundless energy, fine dancing and pretty impressive acting. Toss in some very creative imagery, humour, and several dashes of audience participation, and you have fifty minutes that’s hugely enjoyable."

Full of boundless energy, fine dancing and pretty impressive acting... fifty minutes that’s hugely enjoyable and extremely entertaining.

Nicola Claire reports on this year's The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance at The Royal Ballet And Opera. "The one-...
14/07/2025

Nicola Claire reports on this year's The Royal Ballet School Summer Performance at The Royal Ballet And Opera.

"The one-off show may be at the Royal Ballet & Opera, with its orchestra, and professional in every respect, but it is the dancers who ultimately make it what it is. And this year’s performance was, without a shadow of a doubt, great."

Iain Mackay may have only recently become artistic director of the Royal Ballet School but, undaunted, has already upped the game by a large margin

More from the Colours International Dance Festival in Stuttgart, from where David Mead looks at Compagnie Marie Chouinar...
14/07/2025

More from the Colours International Dance Festival in Stuttgart, from where David Mead looks at Compagnie Marie Chouinard in a double bill of Magnificat and Body Remix/Remix.

"Nicely tongue in cheek, Magnificat is magnificent. A joy and a dance that, like all the best, leaves you wanting more."

Each movement has its own choreographic and lighting colour, the dance shifting easily from light and bouncy, to more earthy, floor-based

"A completely bazaar, frenzied, pornographic, nonsense show. It’s also oddly compulsive." Nicola Claire on 'No President...
13/07/2025

"A completely bazaar, frenzied, pornographic, nonsense show. It’s also oddly compulsive." Nicola Claire on 'No President' by Nature Theater of Oklahoma (actually from New York) at the Southbank Centre, London.

It may have been compulsive and memorable, but that that doesn’t go hand I hand with pleasant... certainly different, though.

From Berlin, Veronica Posth reviews Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in 'Figures in Extinction' by Crystal Pite and Simon M...
12/07/2025

From Berlin, Veronica Posth reviews Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in 'Figures in Extinction' by Crystal Pite and Simon McBurney at the Deutsche Oper.

A triptych that speaks about real, urgent, worrying and dramatic themes, realised through a combination of danced poetry and beauty

The Grange Festival has always found a place for dance. This year saw the return to the country house theatre of Cassa P...
10/07/2025

The Grange Festival has always found a place for dance. This year saw the return to the country house theatre of Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black and a programme in which the advertised double-bill of A Shadow Work by Chanel DaSilva and If At First by Sophie Laplane was supplemented by Jacob Wye's super Perennial, with himself, Hannah Rudd and Daniel Crossley.

The festival's dance evening this year saw the return of Ballet Black in a double-bill of If At First and A Shadow Work, plus Jacob Wye's Perennial

David Mead reports on last Saturday afternoon's Voices and Virtues programme by the Upper School of Elmhurst Ballet Scho...
09/07/2025

David Mead reports on last Saturday afternoon's Voices and Virtues programme by the Upper School of Elmhurst Ballet School that showcased the young dancers' talents in classical ballet, jazz and contemporary.

Including two excellent pieces by Birmingham Royal Ballet principal Lachlan Monaghan, and another from Studio Wayne McGregor artist Jessica Wright

The programme for the Upper School showcased the talent, technique and artistry of the students across in classical ballet, contemporary and jazz

David Mead reviews London Children's Ballet in 'Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella', and new take on an old tale w...
07/07/2025

David Mead reviews London Children's Ballet in 'Ella's Big Chance: A Jazz-Age Cinderella', and new take on an old tale with choreography by Kristen McNally.

"McNally’s choreography tells the story clearly. She very much makes the most of each dancer’s abilities in countless individual moments. The ensemble dances are delightful too. A dance of the mannequins is particularly inventive. As Ella, 15-year-old Gina Harris-Sullivan was quite endearing."

Kristen McNally’s choreography tells the story clearly, making the most of each dancer’s abilities. The ensemble dances are delightful too.

As London City Ballet are about to open their 2025 UK 'Momentum' tour, Maggie Foyer talks to artistic director Christoph...
06/07/2025

As London City Ballet are about to open their 2025 UK 'Momentum' tour, Maggie Foyer talks to artistic director Christopher Marney about the ballets and dancers audiences will see.

London City Ballet’s ‘Momentum’ 2025 UK tour gets underway on July 12. Artistic director Chris Marney talks about this year’s programme

David Mead is in Karlsruhe, Germany, and reviews the 'Leuchtfeuer' triple bill by the Badisches Staatsballett at the Bad...
05/07/2025

David Mead is in Karlsruhe, Germany, and reviews the 'Leuchtfeuer' triple bill by the Badisches Staatsballett at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, that includes the new 'Das Schloss' by Kristina Paulin (a ballet take on Franz Kafka's final, unfinished novel), plus Raimondo Rebeck's 'A Journey of a Memory' and Mauro Bigonzetti's 'Cantata'.

Kristina Paulin's 'Das Schloss', a ballet version of Kafka's unfinished novel, Raimondo Rebeck’s Journey of a Memory, and Mauro Bigonzetti's Cantata

Gala de Danza had its first London performances last week. Maggie Foyer reports on a varied evening, in every sense, at ...
02/07/2025

Gala de Danza had its first London performances last week. Maggie Foyer reports on a varied evening, in every sense, at Central Hall Westminster.

Gala fireworks don’t come much brighter than Flames of Paris and the performance from Viola Pantuso and Shale Wagman was a winner

"ZooNation Youth is quality across the board. With talent of this ilk, the future of hip-hop looks very exciting indeed....
02/07/2025

"ZooNation Youth is quality across the board. With talent of this ilk, the future of hip-hop looks very exciting indeed."

Nicola Claire reports on ZooNation Youth (ZooNation: The Kate Prince Company) in the Next Generation Festival at the Royal Ballet And Opera.

The seventeen young dancers, including two who can’t be in their teens yet, all already hip-hop dancers of calibre... sweep the audience away

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