December 2015
News: Akram Khan's Chotto Desh chosen for Newham's Every Child a Theatre Goer scheme
4,500 Year Six children from 67 primary schools in the borough will see the adaptation of Khan's Olivier Award winning 'Desh' at Stratford Circus... Continue Reading
News: Dancing on Ice
From the Imperial Ice stars Nutcracker at the Royal Albert Hall to Canadian collective Le Patin Libre’s Vertical at Somerset House. Lyndsey Winship looks at current developments in ice dance.. Continue Reading
News: Sylvie Guillem's last dance
On 30 December, Sylvie Guillem will dance in public for the last time Continue Reading
Arthur Pita - The Little Match Girl
Pita’s heady cocktail of folk-tinged dance, commedia dell’arte grotesques, poignant songs and inventive staging is extraordinarily evocative.
Feature: Strictly with Vikki - The Finale
Was it a fitting end for a spectacular series? As former boy band star Jay McGuinness is crowned champion, Vikki Jane Vile gives us her considered opinion . . . Continue Reading
English National Ballet - The Nutcracker - London Coliseum
The stand-out in a strong series of international divertissements is the Spanish dance, with Fernando Bufalá and the physically chalk-and-cheese Adela Ramírez and Crystal Costa all on sizzling form.
Review: English National Ballet - The Nutcracker - London Coliseum
It seems that we have entered an era where virtuoso dance skills are being valued much more than the fundamentals... Audiences clamour to see huge jumps and fast, centred pirouettes.. but, ballet is about much more... Continue Reading
Review: Arthur Pita - The Little Match Girl - Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
An atmospheric environment is captured in the colourful costume and set designs of Yann Seabra & in the charmingly effective musical composition by Frank Moon. Pita squeezes eleven characters from a cast of j… Continue Reading
Arthur Pita - The Little Match Girl - Lilian Baylis Studio
This is masterful storytelling – using a combination of dance, song, and live music.
Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty - Sadler's Wells
Matthew Bourne’s production for New Adventures bubbles over with gothic bright ideas, from puppetry to a forest of sleepwalkers.
Royal Ballet - The Nutcracker - Royal Opera House
Hayward’s dancing is reliably superb, her elegant feet and pliant upper body a gorgeous instrument for the colour and sweep of Tchaikovsky’s score.
News: Gift ideas for dancers and dance lovers...
Looking for some present buying inspiration? We've got a few ideas for gifts with dance appeal.... Continue Reading
Review: PanicLab - Swan Lake II: Dark Waters - Chelsea Theatre
Part of my semi-resistance to PanicLab’s admittedly original take on the famous tropes of 'Swan Lake' is that its waters aren’t dark enough – not for my taste, anyway. I’m not sa… Continue Reading
News: New Executive Director for Scottish Ballet
Steven Roth has been appointed as Scottish Ballet’s Executive Director, to work alongside Chief Executive/Artistic Director Christopher Hampson. Continue Reading
Review: Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty - Sadler's Wells
Perhaps the most memorable icon of the Bourne Beauty is the decision to represent the baby Aurora as a wild child through the form of engaging puppetry, entertainingly achieved through a mix of technical wizardry… Continue Reading