Category contemporary

REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet

Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the get go, I had goosebumps. Opening with Prokofiev's terrific 'Dance of the Knights', the show continued with passion and astounding elegance. Not having adapted Shakespeare before, Matthew Bourne has done so with success in his reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet, showing at Sadler's Wells now until 2nd September. Bourne reimagines the classic story and turns it into something utterly modern, compelling, and inventive.

REVIEW: FRAY

Reading Time: 2 minutesFRAY is a story of two brothers learning how to navigate reality as they grow up. Using the world of video games as a language to explore what it means to battle monsters and head out on your own Hero’s journey, this energised show fusing hip-hop dance, music and moving visuals aims to teach us that all we ever needed was inside us all along. It’s an electric production, but we know the ending already.

REVIEW: Navy Blue

Reading Time: 2 minutesOona Doherty’s Navy Blue explores the insignificance of dance, life and the whole world. From the offset, Navy Blue might seem like a bit of a bleak experience if the point is to comprehend the pointlessness of sitting in a theatre watching a dance show that expresses itself as pointless and irrelevant.