REVIEW: Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana
Reading Time: 2 minutesCarlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana takes the classic Christmas ballet in a new direction with his charming Cuban re-imagining.
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REVIEW: Ockham’s Razor Collaborator
Reading Time: 2 minutesCollaborator at The Place is one of those rare shows that wins you over not through spectacle, but through openness.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Kevin Edward Turner
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Kevin Edward Turner, MBE, artistic director, Company Chameleon. Obscura is a dance double bill from Manchester’s Company Chameleon, transforming two acclaimed outdoor works for the indoor stage as the ensemble returns to theatres for the first time since 2019.
REVIEW: The Red Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne might call this production the poetry of motion, but it is a great deal more – it is one’s religion practiced in rarefied atmosphere How does one go about adapting a critically acclaimed piece of art,…
REVIEW: The Wedding, Gecko
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visually stunning, ensemble-driven physical-theatre piece where “brides” become a darkly funny machine for belonging. Physical theatre company Gecko mark their 25th anniversary with a restaging of their 2017 production The Wedding, debuting at Sadler’s Wells East…
REVIEW: Ballet Black Shadows
Reading Time: 2 minutesBallet Black: SHADOWS is a production split cleanly down the middle - two halves, two sharply contrasting moods. It’s an evening that begins tentatively and ends in gleeful, macabre triumph.
REVIEW: Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes
Reading Time: 2 minutesA timeless fairytale and Academy Award-winning movie, The Red Shoes has captivated audiences and inspired generations of dancers
REVIEW: Marking Time
Reading Time: 3 minutesMarking Time delivers three fiercely distinct visions of how sound and movement bend, stretch, and disrupt our sense of time. Earlier this year, I saw Outlander at Kings Place and was fascinated by the musical chemistry between…
REVIEW:Akram Khan Company and Manal AIDowanyan Presents: Thikra: Night of Remembering
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An elegant and urgent response to the current political climate on immigration” First premiered in January 2025 amid the sandstone canyons of AIUIa, Saudi Arabia as an outdoor, immersive site-specific performance commissioned by the Royal Commission for…
REVIEW: The Machine of Horizontal Dreams
Reading Time: 3 minutesA vision that is living, breathing, and breathtaking in its execution, while
critiquing contemporary social structures and gazing toward a horizontal future