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The final full stop for a much-loved company

A poignant farewell leaves the home audience wanting more.

It is sad that Final Edition will be Richard Alston dance company's final tour, but it is a fantastic production to leave us with.

A lifetime of achievement that keeps on giving 

The Ballet Black formula works its wonders yet again with Annabelle Lopez Ochoa scoring her third successive hit for a British ballet company. 

The latest bill from the Richard Alston Dance Company shows its leader as a consummate teacher: studied, scholarly, thoughtful.

Richard Alston is a true Contemporary Dance artist and choreographer, and his company a staple within the British Contemporary Dance scene. But last week's performance at Sadler's Wells was short of a five star. 

Richard Alston’s Autumn season At Home was greeted with a full house. Dance celebrities and non-celebrities, the older generation from his experimental years, and eager younger choreographers with notebooks all gathered in celebration at The Place.

Dance GB is a collaboration between the UK's three national dance companies, Scottish Ballet, National Dance Company Wales, and English National Ballet.

True to their usual standard of extraordinary craftsmanship and virtuosic dancing, Richard Alston Dance Company brought a mixed bill of new and old works to Sadler’s Wells. The evening’s programme included three pieces: Alston’s Roughcut, which premièred in 1990; Lie of the Land, a work by rehearsal director Martin Lawrance; and one of Alston’s newest choreographies, A Ceremony of Carols.

Imagine a small company of just seven dancers being served a smorgasbord of eclectic new works, dished up by a quartet of today’s best young British choreographers from different top-ranking British companies. Ballet Black has just had the good fortune to present this spring season’s fare to a full house capacity at the Linbury Theatre in Covent Garden.