Like Brideshead without the grief: Anna Winter reviews a revival of Matthew Bourne’s younger creations.
Venues: Sadler's Wells
28 March 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Bausch/Forsythe/ Van Manen Triple Bill at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 23 March - 1 April 2017
By Ka Bradley
As darkly sexual and symbolically rich as an Angela Carter story: Ka Bradley reviews the ENB’s triple bill including Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring.
16 March 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Project Polunin at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 14 - 18 March 2017
By Anna Winter
Beige bodystockings and Super Ted: Anna Winter reviews a new triple bill of works danced by Sergei Polunin at Sadler’s Wells.
10 March 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Tree of Codes at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 4 - 11 March 2017
By Anna Winter
An act of splicing and dicing: Anna Winter reviews Wayne McGregor’s contemporary dance work based on the book by Jonathan Safran Foer.
7 March 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Enormous Room at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 2 - 3 March 2017
By Ka Bradley
The atemporality of grief: Ka Bradley reviews Stopgap Dance’s work about the passage of mourning.
20 February 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Flamenco Festival at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 15 - 19 February 2017
By Anna Winter
Ferociously balletic bulls: Anna Winter reviews the start of Sadler’s Wells’ Flamenco Festival with performances from Israel Galván and Eva Yerbabuena.
14 February 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: ZfinMalta Dance Ensemble at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 9 - 10 February 2017
By Rachel Elderkin
Beyond words: Rachel Elderkin reviews the ZfinMalta Dance Ensemble’s U.K. debut.
11 February 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Masurca Fogo at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 9 - 12 February 2017
By Anna Winter
The banal domestic details of everyday life rendered strangely beautiful: Anna Winter reviews Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
7 February 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Sadler’s Wells Sampled at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 3 - 4 February 2017
By Anna Winter
A smorgasbord of toothsome choreographic morsels: Anna Winter reviews Sadler’s Wells’ preview programme for 2017.
21 January 2017
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Imbalance at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 16 - 19 January 2017
By Ka Bradley
What’s your posture like? Ka Bradley reviews Joli Vyann’s work about “a very modern malaise”.
20 December 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Little Match Girl at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 10th - 30th December 2016
By Duska Radosavljevic
Graceful and elevating: Duska Radosavljevic reviews Arthur Pita’s dance version of The Little Match Girl.
17 December 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Red Shoes at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 6th December - 29th January 2017
By Anna Winter
A celebration of dance, dancers and artistic sacrifice: Anna Winter reviews Matthew Bourne’s new ballet.
2 December 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Peony Pavilion at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 29th November - 3rd December 2016
By Amelia Forsbrook
It was all just a dream (of eroticised feet): Amelia Forsbrook reviews the National Ballet of China at Sadler’s Wells.
29 November 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Swan Lake/Loch na hEala at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 25th - 26th November 2016
By Anna Winter
Mythic dreaminess and quotidian bleakness: Anna Winter reviews Michael Keegan-Dolan’s version of Swan Lake.
17 November 2016
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Akram Khan’s Giselle at Sadler’s Wells
Sadler's Wells ⋄ 15th - 19th November 2016
By Anna Winter
More about market forces than being duped by cads: Anna Winter reviews Akram Khan’s Giselle as it arrives in London.