Genre: Ballet

Review: Sleeping Beauty

If you care for ballet and you’re not in Covent Garden every month, see this.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: The Yellow Wallpaper

Stephanie Mohr’s adaptation is a remarkable manifestation (no other word seems more apt) of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman short story The Yellow Wallpaper, an important realisation of a key feminist awakening. It’s good enough for you not to want it depicted in any other way.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: AFTER ALL

Weinachter is an interchangeable chameleon: not just a dancer, but a rare performer who can do it all! Her style and execution of ideas paints a beautiful memory of her idiosyncratic talents in exploring the beginning and end of life. Stunningly poignant.

Published by Natasha Higdon

Review: SHOOT THE CAMERAMAN

Enthralling. Poignant. Unforgettable. Two cameras. One couple. A beautiful dance between the private and public world of this turbulent couple. Not to be missed!

Published by Natasha Higdon

Review: Bold Moves

Beautiful, entertaining, exceptional dancing, and viscerally emotive.

Published by Jo Tomalin

Review: The Midnight Bell

An outstanding ballet by any standards. One that like its inspiration Patrick Hamilton will last.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: The Sensemaker

An astonishing, disturbing shapeshifting sliver of genius.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: Elicitations

“An ambitious work, exploring the emotional complexities in relationships”

Published by Nadia Strahan

Review: Rambert

The theatre of Goat, its apotheosis into something else from its comedic opening, is stunning. It’s what the Rambert does; completely reinvent itself and the dance. this and the earlier ballet are outstanding in themselves. The Cunningham company are lucky to learn from them.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: The Snowman

The most enduring British Christmas hits are melancholy, in stark contrast to say American. There’s a profound sadness in the magic. Its not a long work, perfectly proportioned for children. It’s still the ideal winter present, especially on a first trip to the theatre.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: The Tempest

You won’t forget the spectacle. But it’s the lonely spectators of their own powers that’ll beat on your mind. Gregory Doran’s RSC production realizes that more fully than ever before. Simon Russell Beale’s riven letting-go of a man’s potency relinquished along with his moral son sounds deeper plummets still.

Published by Simon Jenner

Review: Now Leasing

A semi-autobiographical choreograph narrative revealing much.

Published by Dan Lentell

Review: The Little Mermaid Ballet

An Engaging Hour in the World of Classical Dance

Published by Althea Stentiford