Botis Seva/Far From The Norm: Until We Sleep is full of intrigue

Far From The Norm in Botis Seva's Until We Sleep

By Graham Watts, 25 June 2025

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“an important stepping stone in the career development of one of the UK’s hottest dance properties”

Reviewed at Sadler's Wells East, London on 24 June 2025

Until We Sleep (Botis Seva)

Far From The Norm

Ryan Dawson Laight, Costume Designer

Tom Visser, Lighting Designer

Laments and combats: Deep emotions in Monteverdi Ballets at Spitalfields

Cristina de Lucas, 17th June

Under the title “Monteverdi Ballets”, Spitalfields Music Summer Festival presented a joint collaboration between the Early Opera Company and Avant Garde Dance. The challenge was to merge music and dance coming from two different artistic projects into a single unified product.

***11

English National Ballet School offers a magical Cinderella

Deborah Weiss, 1st April

George Williamson's My First Ballet: Cinderella for English National Ballet School is an absolute joy and suitable for any age group. Great family entertainment.

*****

Alexander Whitley: the cutting edge of dance and technology

Graham Watts, 18th March

Two new works by Alexander Whitley, Mirrors and The Rite of Spring, explore society’s increasing dependency on AI in dance.

***11

Maliphant’s Landscapes: three solos, three outstanding dancers

Graham Watts, 11th March

Some of Russell Maliphant's best known, most enduring and loved works in an evening of unforgettable performances.

****1

ZooNation’s Ebony Scrooge at Sadler’s Wells East: infectious fun

Deborah Weiss, 3rd December

ZooNation smashes its new Christmas production of Ebony Scrooge with slick performances and eyebrow-raising dance moves.

****1

Andrea Peña and Artists in Bogotá: densely layered but stimulating

Daniel Pratt, 2nd October

Opening Dance Umbrella's Festival 2025 at Sadler's Wells East, Andrea Peña and Artists’ Bogotá examines perceptions of death and rebirth and how our ancestral stories echo in today's urban world.

***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.