Review: Thikra: Night of Remembering
Dark, intriguing, ritualistic dance from UK superstar choreographer Akram Khan
Genre: Dance 0
Review: One Foot in the Dark
Two dance pieces combining contemporary and tradition styles with poetry
Review: I’m sorry to disappoint you all
Two friends tangled together. Cocooned in their high rise flat and swallowed by the vastness of the city, an unravelling begins
Review: Bloom
A beautifully imagined afternoon watching a Japanese stepdancer perform percussive stepdance to Scottish tunes and original music in the company of a highly appreciative audience.
Review: Company of Elders: Mixed Bill
A double-bill of new work by Company of Elders that invites us all to the dance
Review: GENDAI
A mesmerizing fusion of lasers, smoke, and dance that embodies the meaning of its name: modern, present, alive.
Review: Balfour Reparations
An interesting theatrical deconstruction of what might happen in 20 years’ time if we wake up to what we did in Palestine.
Review: Traces of Belief (Taiwan Season)
Simultaneously about "everything" without losing its peaceful quality, the show envelops us like a wave or a prayer
Review: Cirque Kalabanté: WOW (World of Words)
Cirque Kalabanté is an hour of entertainment through the extraordinary physical feats of talented performers.
Review: A Journey of Flight
Always-engaging dance that captures nature and travel - never other than refreshing to watch
Review: Because You Never Asked
Fascinating and provocative physical movement, memory and a hidden past.
Review: Deiseil: Dancing in Time
A delightful hour in the company of incredible music, wonderful dancing and an opportunity to reconnect with our heritage.
Review: Strings, Steps, and Soul: Flamencodanza Shines
Flamencodanza Bridge Tradition and Modernity in an Intimate Performance
Review: Panoptikum
Visual storytelling through dance and theatre. It’s macabre, weird and wonderful!
Review: NORMAL
See NORMAL for its truth and community, its depiction of effort made beautiful, and its success in using a performance space to show us what sustainable practice might look like.
Review: Top Hat
The most joyous musical of the summer. And it has a summer heart that never cloys. A sizzling must-see.
Review: La Femme des Sables
A dance piece investigating how pain becomes a catalyst for spiritual enlightenment
Review: Push and Pull
An extraordinary performance exploring the push and pull dynamic of a relationship touching deep emotional strings
Review: Formosa Viva
A catchy dance theatre performance displaying Taiwan's historical heritage through movement and dance
Review: Tim Coakley In Search of the Dance
Tim Coakley has a potential minor masterpiece on his hands, as he searches for that perfect crashed chord.
Review: Goner
A radical vision of horror which challenges from the beginning right through to the end.
Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Review: Now That’s What I Call a Musical
The cast grab this by the scruff of its shoulder pads and make us love them. A must-see.
Review: Re:Incarnation
Powerhouse Afrodance celebrating the creative energy of Lagos, presented by Dance Consortium
Review: EPHEMERAL ECHOES
A Collaboration between Indepen-dance, LPM Dance Company and ConCuerpos Dance Company
Review: Trick of The Eye
A short piece of dance which does all it needs to, to engage and enrich our understanding of how we see people and need to recalibrate.
Review: Flux and Flourish
Diverse dance performed with panache, glitter and well-deserved confidence.
Review: Contemporary Sisyphus
A solo journey of pain and discovery beautifully imagined in a movement piece with tremendous grace.
Review: WHAKAPAPA
A powerful and heady mix of dance and film that blows your prejudicial cobwebs away.
Review: Transhumanist
An astonishing show based on the intersection between us and AI which is simply breathtakingly, body poppingly brilliant.
Review: Dance N’Speak Easy
An energetic dance show based on hip hop dance, breakdance, song and burlesque!
Review: Timeless
Timeless comprises four contrasting dance pieces that are all interesting and well performed.
Review: The Hidden Garden
Beauty and grace poised in a confined space, watched by a spellbound audience, in another confined space.
Review: Yes-Ya-Yebo!
A feast of South African dance flavoured by the spice of authentic voice without a misstep.
Review: Rêves
Lyrical muscular circus skills with classical music and dance, with grace and precision.
Review: Ten Thousand Hours
Eight highly-skilled athletes defy gravity and stun the audience with incredible feats of strength and agility in a mesmerizing performance.
Review: Look at Them!
A visceral spectacle of metaphorical artistry not to be missed. Breath-taking physical theatre, not to be missed!
Review: The Last Beginning
A group of students fight their way to their new existential world! Expect physical theatre, lightsabers, silk acrobatics and a giant buckyball!
Review: Sushi Tap 2024
Mixing tap dance with clowning, juggling and crowd work, this is a fun show for all ages
Review: Kontemporary Korea: A Double Bill of K:Dance
An enthralling and astonishing double bill of contemporary dance.
Review: J’ai un Bleu
J’ai un Bleu manages to covey through movement what words simply cannot express. The objectification of the female form.
Review: Company RAus’s Dido
A multimedia portrayal of Dido's love and loss, in sound, light and solo dance
Review: Lived Fiction
Unique, spellbinding, groundbreaking; above all makes everyone more alive to the possibilities of being human.
Review: an accident/ A Life
Tragic, uplifting, dance, disabled, able to entertain and shock – dance of special value.
Review: Unforgettable Girl
A danced, poised, graceful, explosion of dance which questions so much about our ethnicity and dealing with others.
Review: Infamous
Emma Hamilton, mother and ward. Expect spats. Nine months since her National Theatre Kerry Jackson opened, April de Angelis arrives at Jermyn Street with the three-hander Infamous, directed by Michael Oakley, till October 7th. Even though the earlier play was staged in the smaller Dorfman, Infamous is chamber music by comparison. As in Kerry Jackson, De Angelis avoids tragedy where it clearly offers itself. The final two scenes though offer more; it’s piquant, momentarily uplifting, a little sad. And dramatically right it’s expressed in dance.
Review: An Afternoon With Anton Du Beke and Friends
Du Beke would have easily been able to present a polished, over-the-top extravaganza to rival the Ziegfeld Follies, but this being the Fringe, he gave us an intimate, scrappy hour that provided the perfect tonic for a rainy day in the last week of the festival.
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.
Review: Lost Soles
A beautifully imagined flight of fancy on the sole of a dance shoe that taps out such wonderful rhythms.
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!
Review: Dances Like a Bomb
Intriguing, witty, strong and tender dance-theatre, beautifully performed.
Review: Family Portrait
A fascinating and beautifully imagined film showing us the value of family, no matter what form.
Review: You and Me
A heartfelt dance piece that is impactful in meaning and dynamically expressed through the choreography, music and performances.
Review: Project Y Evolution
A performance guided by the scope of ambition with an energetic and able group of confident dancers.
