ENBS and Rambert School excel

Corlee Haverty and Scott Millar from Rambert School in Richard Alston’s Waltzes in Disorder

Isaac Calstar-Fisher and Elsie Pinder of ENBS in Lynne Charles’ Etudes on a Theme of Satie

Lois Fraiz, Elsie Pinder, Ailey Osaki and Riho Hayashi of ENBS in Etudes on a Theme of Satie

Rambert School in Faye Stoeser's Lunar Tales

Rambert School in Miguel Altunaga's The Hilkravrs

Rambert School in Julian Nichols' The Inn Between

By Graham Watts, 29 June 2025

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“he is adept at creating fluid structures and a distinctive rhythmic choreography”

Reviewed at Royal Opera House: Linbury Theatre, London on 27 June 2025

Études on a Theme of Satie (Lynne Charles)

Waltzes in Disorder (Richard Alston)

Aphiēmi (Lynne Charles)

Ruff Celts (Marguerite Donlon)

The Hilkravrs (Miguel Altunaga)

The Inn Between (Julian Nichols)

Lunar Tales (Faye Stoeser)

English National Ballet School

Rambert School

Ballet Nights – Spring Into Summer a fascinating hotchpotch of dance

Graham Watts, 5th June

Ballet Nights 008 – Spring into Summer proved to be a judicious choice of quality and diverse repertoire.

****1

Final Edition for the Richard Alston Dance Company

Graham Watts, 7th March

The final full stop for a much-loved company

****1

Richard Alston Dance Company returns one last time to The Place

Graham Watts, 27th November

A poignant farewell leaves the home audience wanting more.

****1

Richard Alston Dance Company's Final Edition

Kirsty Morgan, 27th September

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.

****1

Richard Alston Dance Company shines in Sadler's Wells mixed bill

Graham Watts, 1st March

A lifetime of achievement that keeps on giving

*****

Richard Alston Dance Company draws inspiration from around the world in diverse triple bill.

Philippa Newis, 16th June

Tango infused contemporary dance sizzles on a hot summer evening. Sometimes tempestuous, sometimes tender; four couples oscillate between summer storms and wintry chills. Tangent, choreographed by Martin Lawrence opens a triple bill by the Richard Alston Dance Company at Sadlers Wells. He draws inspiration from Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas played on stage by pianist Jason Ridgway.

****1

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.

ENBS and Rambert School excel in an eclectic programme at the Linbury