A striking double bill with a South African pedigree from Europe’s first black professional neoclassical ballet company, celebrating their 25th anniversary Dance is one of the most primal human urges, born out of a combination of raw emotion, atavistic response to rhythmic sounds and the urge of a community to move as one. There is […]
A Single Man, Linbury Theatre
Isherwood’s Emblematic Gay Novel Becomes a Ballet Grief fractures you. And if it’s grief you can’t share with those around you, it becomes even more corrosive. Such is the grief afflicting George, the central character of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 gay novel, A Single Man, now turned into an affecting ballet, which has opened the new […]
Ruination – Linbury Theatre
This is a second run for Ruination at the Linbury, a production by Lost Dog in collaboration with The Royal Ballet. As an alternative festive show, I can think of no better entertainment, despite the underlying tragedy. This is, as Ben Duke eloquently puts it, about death.