Instrument: Dancer

Sir Peter Wright’s production returns to Birmingham Royal Ballet after an absence of five years, with Céline Gittens and Brandon Lawrence sharing great chemistry. 

I felt that the choreography as performed by these excellent dancers was enough to carry the story without such excessive use of text and animation

Over twenty-two vignettes, some long, others short, a cast of thirty pedestrianizes ballet. The work suggests that who you are matters more than what you do. 

Even despite the hiatus of the pandemic, Acosta Danza has come a long way in just eight years

Peaky Blinders turned into dance theatre makes for powerful and spectacular staging, both visually and aurally and is unlikely to inspire an insipid response

The finale had Osipova wrapping herself in the area rug like a mummy and rolling on the stage floor. It wasn’t even a guilty pleasure. It was just bad.