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Review: CINDERELLA, Birmingham Hippodrome
Sir David Bintley’s 2010 production of Cinderella has been long overdue an outing, and based on Wednesday’s opening night at Birmingham Hippodrome it is worth the wait.
Review: BIRDBOY, Sadler's Wells
February 2025 is the inaugural month of Sadler’s Wells East, London’s newest dance house with a 550-seat theatre, six dance studios, and a public performance space all under one roof.
Review: GRUPO CADABRA DAZZLES with HERMAN CORNEJO in ANIMA ANIMAL at The Joyce Theater
Argentinian-based dance group Grupo Cadabra made their New York premiere on February 18th at The Joyce Theater with the dazzling contemporary ballet, Anima Animal.
Review: LIGHT OF PASSAGE, Royal Ballet And Opera
Crystal Pite’s deeply moving work has themes of safe passage, displacement, community and mortality.
Review: VOLLMOND, Sadler's Wells
Desperation, desire and dance in a drowned world
Review: ABT'S CRIME AND PUNISHMENT at Kennedy Center
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) regularly brings new story ballets to DC for their Kennedy Center performances and this year was no different.
Review: FOREVER TANGO at Van Wezel
On a dimly lit stage enveloped in an air of mystique, a melodious bandoneon tenderly caresses the night's silence, its haunting notes reverberating through the hushed theater.
BWW Review: Columbus Presents a Tour-de-FOURce Production of WEST SIDE STORY
In an unprecedented collaboration, the Columbus Symphony, BalletMet, Opera Columbus, and the Columbus Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) have all joined forces to present West Side Story, the classic forbidden love story and rivalry between the Jets and the Sharks in a mesmerizing fusion of
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM C at the Kennedy Center
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Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER PROGRAM B at the Kennedy Center
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Review: OUR MIGHTY GROOVE, Sadler's Wells East
In the new Sadler's Wells East venue, we are invited to observe and then enter the world of Club Groove in a pulsing, energetic, modern dance piece allowing the audience to mingle on the dance floor.
Review: ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at The Kennedy Center Opera House – February 4th
The excitement was overflowing in The Kennedy Center Opera House as the annual Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater program began.
Review: LEÏLA KA AND CHRISTOS PAPADOPOULOS, Sadler’s Wells
The prizes continue at Sadler’s Wells with both a Bloom and Rose contender showing their work.
Review: NATIONAL BALLET OF CHINA'S CHINESE NEW YEAR at Kennedy Center
Thus it was with great fanfare and symbolism that the National Ballet of China’s return to the Kennedy Center took place Wednesday, with performances of Chinese New Year, a reimagining of The Nutcracker story.
Review: MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA: CARCAÇA, Sadler’s Wells
Competition in the Arts.
Review: GISELLE at Ottawa's National Arts Centre
Giselle may be dubbed 'the ballerina's Hamlet' because of the complexity of the title role, but Tirion Law effortlessly tackles the challenges and uses them to showcase her talent as principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada.
Review: NORTHERN BALLET - THREE SHORT BALLETS, Royal Ballet And Opera
Northern Ballet return to the Linbury Theatre for a triple bill of diverse works…or is it really a double bill with an additional third piece that's just five minutes long?!
Review: MANON at San Francisco Ballet
The chance to see a classic full-length ballet for the first time is always a rare and welcome opportunity, so it’s especially exciting that San Francisco Ballet is kicking off its 2025 Repertory Season with Kenneth McMillan’s Manon, choreographed in 1974 and subsequently performed all over the
Review: DEWEY DELL - THE RITE OF SPRING, Southbank Centre
The one thing we can always count on is a new reading of The Rite of Spring.
Review: ONEGIN, Royal Ballet and Opera
Cranko took the predictable love melodrama - I want you, I don't, actually I do, well now I don’t - and turned it into a full-length, 3 act ballet.
Review: THE NUTCRACKER, Royal Albert Hall
When I first saw The Nutcracker, I was convinced one of these things must be true: either someone had spiked my drink, the cast were all on drugs or we were all in some kind of baffling nightmare.
Review: THE NUTCRACKER at the the Artscape Theatre Centre Is a Lush, Festive Treat
In December 2022, I had the honour of seeing Veronica Paeper and Cape Town City Ballet’s THE NUTCRACKER.
Review: ELLINGTON/STRAYHORN NUTCRACKER at Dance St. Louis
One of the most perfect evenings I've ever spent in a theater.