Bringing all the news and taking a sharp-eyed and critical look at dance in the UK, Europe and Asia.
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"There was a wonderful sense of warmth, generosity and welcome about #AfroDanceXplosion 2026: Transcen-dance, presented by #FeeltheRhythmProductions at #ThePlace," writes Nicola Claire.
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"A short powerful burst of human emotion wrapped in poetic thoughts and a forest of basil plants... He is a powerhouse of creative energy."
Maggie Foyer on #OmarRajeh - #Maqamat in 'Dance is Not For Us' @BarbicanCentre London as part of @DanceUmbrellaUK
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Even better than when seen in London two years ago says Nicola Claire as she reports on a wonderful evening with @RBDanceCompany_ in 'Stories' now at the Peacock Theatre, London - @Sadlers_Wells - then on tour.
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"There are occasions... a production simply fails to communicate. For me, Who Are We?, presented by the French company Baro d’evel, was one such occasion."
Nicola Claire on 'Who Are We?' at the @southbankcentre London
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Zoë Hewitt on Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé in Manon at the @rbo_org
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"At different times dark and unsettling, light and humorous, but always visually stunning... Wheeldon’s storytelling blends West End theatre and opera house ballet..."
@davidmeaddance on @TheAusBallet in Christopher Wheeldon's 'Oscar' @NYCityCenter.
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David Mead reports on an evening of Korean contemporary dance presented by the @KoreanCultureNY and @whitewavedance Company.
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Celebrating 100 years of the @RoyalBalletSch, Nicola Claire reports on a marvellous night at the @rbo_org with dancers from The Royal Ballet, @BRB and the School itself
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Zoë Hewitt on Philippe Decouflé’s stage adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World' @BarbicanCentre London
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"'Eclectic NYCB' said the title of the evening. It was certainly that. Three ballets, very different in style and mood."
@davidmeaddance on @nycballet in Wheeldon's 'Continuum', Ratmansky's 'Solitude', and Balanchine's 'Bourrée Fantasque'.
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Nicola Claire on #PolymerDMT / Fang Yun Lo - 聚合舞 and The Seas Between Us (當水落下) at #ThePlace, London.
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"Packed with wonderful dancing, wit, character, tremendous music and choreography... marvellously entertaining from start to finish"
Nicola Claire on #TheBrownSuite by #BlacBrik at the @RichmondTheatre London, and now touring.
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Zoë Hewitt reviews #PamTanowitzDance in Pastoral @BarbicanCentre London.
"There is so much to like... Put everything together, though, and those pleasures rarely seem to gather."
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Tianyi Li on @ndcwales 'Blue|Glas' double bill @Sadlers_Wells East.
Theo Clinkard’s Ordinary Courage and Alesandra Seutin’s new Untamed. They share ideas around struggle, change and moving forward, but they come from opposite directions.
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In the first of a series of reviews taking in this Fall's dance scene in New York City, @davidmeaddance is at #FallforDance 4 at @NYCityCenter.
With #GauthierDance of @Theaterhaus Stuttgart, @sfballet and Friedemann Vogel
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Tianyi Li reviews 'DEEPFAKE' by Jess & Morgs at @Sadlers_Wells East.
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Zoë Hewitt reviews Charlie Khalil Prince’s 'the body symphonic' at The Place, London.
"Sound dominates the evening from the start. Prince swings a microphone above his head until the amplified rush begins to resemble wind..."
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Veronica Posth reports on four performances at #FabbricaEuropa in Florence.
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"Individual personalities kept surfacing..." @northernballet are "a company capable of making three very different choreographic worlds feel fully lived."
Zoë Hewitt on Three Short Ballets (Tiler Peck, Hans van Manen, Mthuthuzeli November) at @rbo_org
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"But then he was suddenly faced by the quite delicious Yu Kurihara. Her Odile was assured, dominant, strong. She dazzled the court and all of us watching."
@davidmeaddance on @BRB #SwanLake at the @brumhippodrome with Kurihara and Yasiel Hoderlín
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