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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.

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.

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.