Ballet Nights makes an impressive and unforgettable Scottish debut

Sophie Martin and Joan Ivars Ribes in David Dawson's On the Nature of Daylight

Steven McRae in his own Czardas

Caspar Lench in Joshua Junker's 324a

BlacBrik (Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh) in their Death of the Bachelors

Constance Devernay-Laurence in Christopher Wheeldon's I Married Myself

Tyrone Singleton and Constance Devernay-Laurence in MacMillan's Elite Syncopations

By Kathy Elgin, 08 July 2025

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“Darrell’s exquisite choreography had Mutso questing, yearning and plaintive, arms outstretched”

Reviewed at Theatre Royal, Glasgow on 4 July 2025

I Married Myself (Christopher Wheeldon)

Divided (Diana Loosemore)

Five Rückert Songs (excerpt) (Peter Darrell)

Death of The Bachelors (Nahum McLean, Darius Drooh)

On the Nature of Daylight (David Dawson)

Czardas (Steven McRae)

324a (Joshua Junker)

Splice (Ekleido)

Infant Spirit (Marco Goecke)

Elite Syncopations (excerpt) (Sir Kenneth MacMillan)

Ballet Nights

Jamiel Devernay-Laurence, Director

Constance Devernay-Laurence, Dancer

Eve Mutso, Dancer

BlacBrik

Sophie Martin, Dancer

Joan Ivars Ribes, Dancer

Steven McRae, Dancer

Caspar Lench, Dancer

Hannah Ekholm, Dancer

Faye Stoeser, Dancer

Andrew Cummings, Dancer

Kevin Poeung, Dancer

Tyrone Singleton, Dancer

Viktor Erik Emanuel, Piano

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*****

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Ivy Lin, 7th February

New York City Ballet presents a very entertaining quadruple bill which includes Alexei Ratmansky’s latest work, The Naked King, showing off the company’s comic talents.

****1

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The Royal Ballet’s season opener, Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate, is visually tremendous, very well danced but the many principal and soloist characters are difficult to keep up with.

****1

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***11

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****1

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Kathy Elgin

After a career in publishing, Kathy Elgin turned her enthusiasm for dance into a real job by joining the late, great John Percival, Dance Critic of The Times, in his re-launch of Dance and Dancers magazine in 1981. She was later delighted to join its rival, The Dancing Times, as Scottish correspondent until the magazine’s sad demise in 2022. She lives in Edinburgh.