English National Ballet – She Said: Broken Wings, M-Dao, Fantastic Beings –...
★★★✰✰ Rojo has succeeded in securing one really stimulating work in Broken Wings.
View Article2016 National Dance Awards – Announcement of Nominations
The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle is pleased to announce the nominations for the 17th National Dance Awards,
View ArticleMemorable Performances of 2016 – London
Lynette Halewood with her personal selection of London dance memories from the past year...
View ArticleInterview – Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, choreographer, on working with Danza...
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, the award winning choreographer, chats with Diane Parkes about working with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba. The 'high powered' and much admired company are about to tour the UK with...
View Article2016 National Dance Awards – Winners Announced
The Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards for 2016 were presented today at a ceremony in London, hosted by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE and Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, the creative team behind the highly...
View Article5 Questions to Hagit Yakira about her latest tour and approach to creating dance
Founded eight years ago Hagit Yakira Dance are steadily becoming more widely known as they tour increasingly - which is what they are currently doing. We have a word with the boss about this particular...
View ArticleBallet Black – House of Dreams, Captured, Red Riding Hood – London
★★★✰✰ It's rather a scandal that Ballet Black get no regular Arts Council support and yet proportionally they do far more to put new work out there and also before a public that is not your usual...
View ArticleMemorable Performances of 2017 – London
Head and shoulders above other new work this year was Crystal Pite’s Flight Pattern for the Royal Ballet...
View ArticleInterview – Annabelle Lopez Ochoa on creating Guernica for SF Ballet’s...
"I don’t know if we can make the world a better place, but we can definitely have the audience think about it."
View ArticleEnglish National Ballet – She Persisted: Broken Wings, Nora, Le Sacre du...
★★★★✰ Grouping this diverse triple bill under the title She Persisted works in so many ways...
View ArticleCompany of Elders – Dare I Speak, Natural 2019 – London
★★★★✰ Over the years that I’ve seen them, this extraordinary company of quirky individuals have become more adventurous about what they perform and flexible in how they perform...
View ArticleLucy Guerin – Split – London
★★★★✰ Fascinating for the duration of its 50 mins, Split focusses on duality – charting the shifts between Ashley McLellan and Lilian Steiner as they negotiate their space, timing, movement and...
View ArticleSome Memorable Performances of 2019 – London
Lynette Halewood with some reflections on London dance performances over the last year - the good and the less good...
View ArticleBallet Icons Gala 2020 – London
★★★★✰ The annual Icons gala provides the chance to see dancers who don't often appear in London...
View ArticleDutch National Ballet – Frida – Amsterdam
★★★★✰ This was much more than my expectation of an update to Broken Wings. Part prequel, part sequel; it now stands proudly alone as an excellent new addition to the Dutch ballet repertoire.
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