Instrument: Dancer

An interesting evening displaying the many facets of Natalia Osipova's talents alongside her equally exciting guests at the Linbury.

Company B and Esplanade bookended a popular mixed bill from Paul Taylor Dance Company in the first week of their ambitious fall season at New York's Lincoln Center.  

Liam Francis Dance Company at The Place brings an instinctive and intelligent debut for a choreographer in-step with what it is to be a dance artist now. 

While Rudi van Dantzig's production of Romeo and Juliet was buoyed by confident dancing and stylised acting, it falters somewhat under its own dramaturgy.

Amongst the Giselles and the Nutcrackers that will grace Oslo Opera House’s Main Stage this season sits a vital slice of Norwegian history from two emerging choreographers, Elle Sofe Sara and Hlín Hjálmarsdóttir.

American Ballet Theatre presented a well balanced program of Nuñes, Ratmansky and Balanchine which produced some revelatory performances.

Joburg Ballet makes a promising, if somewhat initially tentative, UK debut with a programme of five works, four by South African choreographers.