TanzLuzern in HOPE: outstanding double bill of new works

Tanaka Roki in Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer

TanzLuzern in Mthuthuzeli November's Oh Deer

TanzLuzern in Phoebe Jewitt's White Rabbit

By Graham Watts, 10 November 2025

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“slithering down onto the stage to perform a dislocated solo, like a stringless puppet”

Reviewed at Luzerner Theater, Lucerne on 8 November 2025

White Rabbit (Phoebe Jewitt)

Oh Deer (Mthuthuzeli November)

TanzLuzern

Laura Peloso, Set Designer

Bregje van Balen, Costume Designer

Stefan Jaeggi, Lighting Designer

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***11

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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.