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'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages of love and supportFriday, 14 November 2025
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R:Evolution, English National Ballet, Sadler's Wells review - a vibrant survey of ballet in four actsWednesday, 08 October 2025
As the new season opens, confidence is high at ENB, just as it should be given the roaring success of recent programmes featuring the latest work of iconoclast William Forsythe. His classical steps set to disco raised the roof. Read more... |
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Like Water for Chocolate, Royal Ballet review - splendid dancing and sets, but there's too much plotSaturday, 04 October 2025
Christopher Wheeldon has mined a new seam of narrative pieces for the Royal Ballet, having started out as a supreme practitioner of the abstract. After The Winter’s Tale and Alice in Wonderland, he landed in 2022 on the magical realist novel Like Water for Chocolate, set in Mexico at the turn of the 20th century. This for me is less successful than the other two. Read more... |
iD-Reloaded, Cirque Éloize, Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury review - attitude, energy and inventionThursday, 25 September 2025
It was the absence of performing animals that defined it in the 1980s, but contemporary circus has come a long way since. Cirque Éloize, a smallish touring company which started in Montreal in the late 90s, has so effectively dissolved the boundaries between dance, acrobatics and theatre that it performs around the world under any or all of those banners. Read more... |
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How to be a Dancer in 72,000 Easy Lessons, Teaċ Daṁsa review - a riveting account of a life in danceFriday, 19 September 2025
Anyone who has followed the trajectory of choreographer-director Michael Keegan-Dolan and his West Kerry-based company Teaċ Daṁsa (House of Dance) will know by now to expect the unexpected. Read more... |
A Single Man, Linbury Theatre review - an anatomy of melancholy, with breaks in the cloudsFriday, 12 September 2025
Mind, body, body, mind. Medical science confirms the powerful two-way traffic between emotional and physical health. Read more... |
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Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, Rambert, Sadler's Wells review - exciting dancing, if you can see itSaturday, 09 August 2025
If you have never watched a single episode of the BBC period gangster drama Peaky Blinders, I am not sure what you would make of Rambert’s two-act ballet version. I have watched all six series, and I still left confused. Read more... |
Giselle, National Ballet of Japan review - return of a classic, refreshed and impeccably dancedSaturday, 26 July 2025
A new Giselle? Not quite: the production that Japan’s national company has brought over for its first British visit isn’t a radical Akram Khan-style makeover. What it offers is a tasteful refreshing of a great classic, like meeting an old friend with a new haircut. Read more... |
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Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunity to give new stage life to a Who classicMonday, 30 June 2025
The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s rock musical about teenage angst in 1960s Britain. What follows isn’t so easy to recognise. Read more... |
The Midnight Bell, Sadler's Wells review - a first reprise for one of Matthew Bourne's most compelling shows to dateThursday, 19 June 2025
Rarely has a revival given a firmer thumbs-up for the future of dance-theatre. Yet Matthew Bourne’s latest show, first aired at the tail-end of lockdown, is far from being a high-octane people-pleaser. It won’t send its audience out teary-eyed and shaken as his Swan Lake did and continues to do. Read more... |
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