Performer: Begoña Cao

A robust testimony to the powerful legacy of Isadora Duncan in Isadora Now at the Barbican.

A dutiful revival of Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Sleeping Beauty from English National Ballet.

Poetry infuses Tamara Rojo’s every step as Giselle in Akram Khan contemporary update of a ballet classic. 

English National Ballet scores another triumph with Akram Khan's darkly reimagined interpretation of the greatest of all Romantic ballets.

While the first of English National Ballet’s tributes to the Ballets Russes focused on works with a ‘nature’ theme, this second programme was more sporty – an apt topic for London 2012. First, there is Apollo, one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities, then a game of tennis. Then there is an acrobat, and, finally, a marathon of non-stop technical classical feats.

ENB’s highly anticipated triple bill of works by the French master craftsman Roland Petit was tinged with sadness when the news of his death was announced on July 10th at the age of 87. He had hoped to oversee the rehearsals and attend the UK premiere. Instead, however, the London season became a powerful tribute to him, one of the greatest choreographers of the 20th century.