Graham Watts sees the ‘distinctive and highly personal flamenco choreographer and performer’, Marco Flores in Rayuela, dance deconstruction in the context of flamenco.
Matt Paluch sees four contemporary works performed by Phoenix Dance Theatre, with Pett Clausen Knight’s Small Talk showing substance over style.
Graham Watts sees F*cking Future and finds himself warming to the work of Marco da Silva Ferreira.
Graham Watts sees Shobana Jeyasingh’s We Caliban – I would rather see fresh ideas than this continuing trope of reinventing Shakespeare.
Graham Watts sees The Wedding by Gecko physical theatre company, but “could not have cared less for any of the diverse characters”.
Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel sees ZooNation’s adaptation of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, “Ebony Scrooge” – a winning production with a stellar group of dancers.
Graham Watts sees Andrea Peña & Artists opening the Dance Umbrella Festival with Bogotá – “If the work wasn’t enjoyable, it was certainly intellectually challenging.”
Graham Watts sees Michael Keegan-Dolan and Rachel Poirier in “How to be a Dancer…” – “never less than absorbing”.
Dance Umbrella, London’s annual international dance festival, runs from 2 – 31 October 2025, not just at various theatres and sites in London, but also online.
Graham Watts sees Aakash Odedra Company in Songs of the Bulbul, a sublime performance that received a rapturous, spontaneous standing ovation.
Matthew Paluch sees R.O.S.E by Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar – I appreciate Eyal’s movement language, but it didn’t go anywhere new or exploratory.
Jonathan Gray sees Phoenix Dance Theatre in Marcus Jarrell Willis’s ‘Inside Giovanni’s Room’ with the Leeds-based company in top form.
Jonathan Gray sees BRT2 in Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la rose, and extracts from Scheherazade, The Firebird and Les Biches – a programme that failed to come to life.
Phoenix Dance Theatre presents Inside Giovanni’s Room in London, inspired by James Baldwin’s 1956 novel of “love, sexuality, guilt and self-acceptance”.
Graham Watts sees HUMANHOOD perform ∞ {Infinite} at Sadler’s Wells East – mysticism and magic a-plenty.
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