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Be Your Self Redux: Missing set diminishes impact of slimmed-down work

Be Your Self Redux: Missing set diminishes impact of slimmed-down work

Why was it that a work I had found exhilarating before now ran out of steam?

  • by Jill Sykes

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Via Alice review: A memorable dance journey through two cultures

Via Alice review: A memorable dance journey through two cultures

A fascinating collaboration between a Bangarra dancer and an American rapper creates a unique performance.

  • by Reviewed by Jill Sykes
Swan Lake/Loch na hEala review: A powerful reimagining of a classic

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala review: A powerful reimagining of a classic

This version of Swan Lake is a tragic Irish tale of a sad young man dragged down by melancholy. His father has died and his mother, from her wheelchair, is trying desperately to get him married.

  • by Jill Sykes
Love is Love review: smart, entertaining and unexpected

Love is Love review: smart, entertaining and unexpected

What a welcome surprise. A group I had never heard of, dancers and choreographers whose names were unfamiliar – and they turned out to be smart, well produced and very entertaining.

  • by Jill Sykes
Michael Keegan-Dolan's Swan Lake/Loch na hEala is a dramatic reinterpretation

Michael Keegan-Dolan's Swan Lake/Loch na hEala is a dramatic reinterpretation

Michael Keegan-Dolan's reimagining of Swan Lake seems calculated to offend traditionalists.

  • by Elissa Blake
Bolshoi denies Nureyev ballet was postponed because of gay theme

Bolshoi denies Nureyev ballet was postponed because of gay theme

There have been suggestions a ballet about dance legend Rudolf Nureyev was too controversial.

  • by Neil MacFarquhar, Sophie Kishkovsky and Lincoln Pigman
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