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Nutcracker season in London is off to a fine start with Sir Peter Wright's Royal Ballet version at the Royal Ballet And ...
23/11/2025

Nutcracker season in London is off to a fine start with Sir Peter Wright's Royal Ballet version at the Royal Ballet And Opera. Zoe Hewitt reports...

At the curtain call, the audience greets Sir Peter Wright, his 99th birthday days away. Fiction and reality touch lightly. The ballet’s tradition no longer distant.

"I have never felt a swan’s breath on the back of my neck. Until now," says David Mead, who takes in Theater Pforzheim's...
23/11/2025

"I have never felt a swan’s breath on the back of my neck. Until now," says David Mead, who takes in Theater Pforzheim's new contemporary production of Swan Lake by Guido Markowitz and Mar Rodríguez Valverde.

It's a production with several narrative twists, and gender fludiity in roles, but that has much to commend it, he feels. "And that magical few minutes when audience and swans meet will be something everyone will take home and remember."

I can safely say that I have never felt a swan’s breath on the back of my neck. Until now. Because that’s precisely what happened during Act Two...

Nicola Claire on London City Ballet at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet And Opera, and their 'Rebirth' programme ...
22/11/2025

Nicola Claire on London City Ballet at the Linbury Theatre at the Royal Ballet And Opera, and their 'Rebirth' programme that includes a revival of Jerome Robbins' 'Quiet City', not danced by NYCB since 2006.

The company just gets better and better. The eleven dancers were outstanding in their grace, fluidity, musicality and interpretation

David Mead reports on Dance Theatre Heidelberg's 'Dance x 2' double bill of works by Astrid Boons, who imagines the futu...
21/11/2025

David Mead reports on Dance Theatre Heidelberg's 'Dance x 2' double bill of works by Astrid Boons, who imagines the future, and Panzetti/Ticconi (Ginevra Panzetti and Enrico Ticconi), who look into dreams and nightmares.

'Crash: reassembled' by Astrid Boons, a reworking of her 2020 piece, and 'IT’S NIGHT AGAIN', a new work by Italian choreographer duo Panzetti/Ticconi

In his second report from the Tanz Karlsruhe festival, David Mead reviews the tour by the winners of the International S...
18/11/2025

In his second report from the Tanz Karlsruhe festival, David Mead reviews the tour by the winners of the International Solo Dance Theater (Internationales Solo-Tanz-Theater) Festival Stuttgart 2025, seen at Kulturzentrum Tempel - Karlsruhe.

"It was easy to see why Carmine Vigliotti (Italy) picked up First Prize for Performance with his The Space Between. He showed great stage presence... yet equally moved quietly and with much grace."

The six works on this year’s tour certainly live up the requirement to be “original, imaginative, unique and… display unusual achievement.”

Nicola Claire reviews ACE dance and music in their TWAWSI double-bill at The Place, London.
18/11/2025

Nicola Claire reviews ACE dance and music in their TWAWSI double-bill at The Place, London.

The ACE dancers are outstanding in both works. Their finesse, precision, interpretation, technique, and sheer danceability, are amongst the best...

From Germany, David Mead dips into the Tanz Karlsruhe festival, curated by Kulturzentrum Tempel - Karlsruhe, and a tripl...
17/11/2025

From Germany, David Mead dips into the Tanz Karlsruhe festival, curated by Kulturzentrum Tempel - Karlsruhe, and a triple bill by French choreographer Leïla Ka.

"Her choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability. And let’s not forget the intense theatricality."

Leïla Ka's choreography is sharply incisive and precise, requires great core strength and physicality, but also leaves plenty of space for vulnerability

David Mead reports from the Royal Ballet And Opera on The Royal Ballet's 'Perspectives' triple bill of works by George B...
16/11/2025

David Mead reports from the Royal Ballet And Opera on The Royal Ballet's 'Perspectives' triple bill of works by George Balanchine, Cathy Marston and Justin Peck.

"A cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all."

"A triple-bill that’s classy and classic... Perspectives really is a cracking evening. Maybe too much of a good thing is sometimes not a bad thing at all."

David Mead reports from Sadler's Wells, London on S-E-D Sharon Eyal Dance in 'Into the Hairy'."The movement appears inst...
14/11/2025

David Mead reports from Sadler's Wells, London on S-E-D Sharon Eyal Dance in 'Into the Hairy'.

"The movement appears instinctive, as though it has its roots in things deep inside the psyche, both the conscious and unconscious. A sort of exploration of the darker aspects of the self. We are getting into Freud here."

Eyal’s Into the Hairy for her company, S-E-D, depicts a strange world, one whose inhabitants are disconcertingly humanoid, but not quite human

Jeannette Andersen reports from Munich on the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Autumn Matinee, which sees the dancers of the Bayerisc...
14/11/2025

Jeannette Andersen reports from Munich on the Heinz-Bosl-Stiftung Autumn Matinee, which sees the dancers of the Bayerisches Junior Ballett München perform alongside those of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.

This year's programme included Frederick Ashton's Les Patineurs, and works by Hans van Manen, Ralf Jaroschinsky, RIchard Siegal and Jorma Elo.

The autumn matinee of the Ballett-Akademie der Hochschule für Musik und Theater München (Akademie) and Bayerisches Junior Ballett München (BJBM)

"Step inside and the illusion begins. The air hums with hidden machines, light seeps through the cracks of history. Soon...
12/11/2025

"Step inside and the illusion begins. The air hums with hidden machines, light seeps through the cracks of history. Soon the dream turns on, woven not by you but for you, generated by data."

Zoe Hewitt on Wayne McGregor's 'On the Other Earth' featuring dancers from Studio Wayne McGregor and Hong Kong Ballet - a 57-minute, virtual choreographic installation within a 360° 3D screen, now on at Stone Nest, London, presented by Somerset House.

High-tech projectors pulse like a digital nervous system. This is choreographer Wayne McGregor’s rabbit hole, his 21st-century Alice in Wonderland.

David Mead reports on Natalia Osipova's self-curated programme, 'Osipova/Linbury' at the Royal Ballet And Opera, an even...
11/11/2025

David Mead reports on Natalia Osipova's self-curated programme, 'Osipova/Linbury' at the Royal Ballet And Opera, an evening of three live works and one film. It was an all-round wonderful couple of hours, he reckons, the pick of twhich was Norwegian choreographer Jo Strømgren's dance-theatre piece, 'The Exhibition'.

A super programme, the highlight being the return of Jo Strømgren's The Exhibition, a tale of the accidental meeting of two people in a gallery

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