Review: My First Ballet: Coppelia, Peacock Theatre
Coppelia is a comic ballet first performed in Paris in 1870, enjoying great success until the run was interrupted by the Franco-Prussian War and siege of Pari...
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Review: Lest We Forget, Barbican Centre
There are few evenings of dance that leave me still unable to think of anything else the morning after, but now 12 hours since viewing Tamara Rojo’s most ambi...
Review: The Prince of the Pagodas, London Coliseum
What is incredible about dance productions is the realisation that words are not always necessary and that so much is expressed through our body language. A t...
Review: Kings of the Dance, Coliseum
A mixed bill is always going to have highs and lows, and although Kings of the Dance does have the odd less-successful moment, on the whole it is a triumph....
Review: Rice, Sadler’s Well
"Rice" may seem an unusual title, and indeed topic, for a work of dance theatre. Yet even without the most perfunctory of research, it becomes clear that rice...
Review: Silk Road, Peacock Theatre
At a bus stop just around the corner from the Peacock Theatre, two exasperated women made stabs at understanding the performance they had just endured. Who ...