Reviews
Review: Breakin' Convention 2013 - Sadler's Wells
The dance world’s a better place for having Breakin’ Convention in it. Hell, it may even be that the world’s a better place. Among the things I love about this annual festival of hip hop dance t… Continue Reading
Review: Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
The Royal Ballet's young Artist in Residence, Liam Scarlett, is to be congratulated for yet another courageous, challenging new ballet... Continue Reading
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Scarlett has laboured long to make dance that explores this vehemently obvious narrative, but might consider the dictum that less is more.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
This ballet is very nearly a dark, brilliant success, but what prevents it from being so is the occasional flatness of Dan Jones’s score and Scarlett’s own pacing.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
Playing out in two halves of 60 and 40 minutes, in a bisected (and suitably dungeon-like) Linbury Studio, this dark-as-night traverse production grips for much of its first act.
Royal Ballet - Hansel and Gretel - Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House
The imagery and the dancers are strong enough to put this concept over, but Scarlett’s choreography does little to help.
Zoonation - Some Like it Hip Hop - Peacock Theatre
Some Like It Hip Hop sails back into the West End on wave after wave of brilliant dancing.