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...
English National Ballet
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: Nutcracker, English National Ballet
There's something about going to London's Coliseum that makes me feel warm and secure, rather like when you're a kid and there's nothing to worry about apart ...
Theatre comment: In defence of the arts
In this age of austerity, it is very easy to take a sniffy and dismissive attitude to the arts. "Why save a theatre when you can save a hospital?" appears to ...