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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCirque - The Greatest Show at O2 Indigo is currently on tour across the UK, produced by James Taylor, the director of Entertainers. Cirque is an incredibly glitzy performance, and has aimed to set itself apart by combining circus with musical theatre. Well-known hits from Broadway and the West End are sung by the cast members in between, and sometimes during, their dancing and circus acts.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unlikely paring of Aurora and vampires - Mathew Bourne’s sleeping beauty gives gothic romance a new meaning.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAward-winning choreographers Morgann Runacre-Temple and Jessica Wright (known in the industry as Jess and Morgs) are the partnership behind Scottish Ballet’s highly-anticipated Coppélia, having lifted Arthur Saint-Léon’s original story of an eccentric toy-maker into its modern milieu: a cautionary tale about human relationships with AI
Reading Time: 2 minutesDada Masilo is both choreographer and sacrifice as she bares her body and soul for all. Known for reimagining classic European ballets in an African context, her latest project is based on The Rite of Spring,
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe show chronicles Sylvia's involvement in the Women’s Suffrage movement beginning in 1903 (with a small flashback to childhood) up until 1928 when the The Representation of the People (Equal Franchise) Act passed - including working class women.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Is The Land is a non-narrative abstract performance that comes to life at The Vaults Festival 2023.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis festive season saw Birmingham Royal Ballet return to the Royal Albert Hall for David Bintley’s enchanting production of The Nutcracker.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all know the classic story, whether it's Disney or the darker Brothers Grimm but Matthew Bourne's ballet brings the story to a modern audience whilst respecting the traditional crafts that influenced it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis production of Top Hat at The Mill at Sonning directed by Jonathan O’Boyle is perfectly pitched to warm the scroogiest of hearts this Christmas.