Danse macabre
✮✮✮ The Great Tamer Dimitris Papaioannou Holland Festival | Amsterdam An astronaut bounding across a moonscape, a disembodied leg...
Colour Galore
✮✮✮ Le Corsaire Hungarian National Ballet Hungarian State Opera | Budapest Le Corsaire is frothy a ballet as they come, with starry-eyed...
Three Starkly Different Twentieth-Century Ballets
✮✮✮ Pina Bausch/William Forsythe/Hans van Manen English National Ballet Sadler's Wells | London Prowling prima-donnas, solemn couplings,...
A Sultry Mirage Amid the Harsh Backdrop of Francoist Spain
✮✮✮ 1/2 Don Quixote Aaron S. Watkin Staatsballet | Dresden This reworking of Marius Petipa’s much-loved Don Quixote, helmed by Aaron S....
The EVER-Present Past
✮✮✮✮✮ OUR land people stories Bangarra Dance Theatre Sydney Opera House | Sydney Three separate works are featured in Bangarra Dance...
Family Affair
✮✮✮ 1/2 La Sylphide Bournonville | Peter Schaufuss Queensland Ballet | London Coliseum Peter Schaufuss’ La Sylphide is very much a family...
b.21
✮✮✮ b.21 Balanchine | Hans van Manen | Martin Schläpfer Deutsche Oper am Rhein | Düsseldorf Dutch ballet legend Hans van Manen's long and...
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores
✮✮✮✮ The Winter's Tale Christopher Wheeldon The Royal Ballet | London Christopher Wheeldon’s The Winter’s Tale is poised to become one of...