Linda

Her favourite ballets feel like good books – one can see them 1,000 times and they always feel fresh. Linda loves Giselle, all full-length MacMillan plus Song of the Earth, Robbins’s Dances at a Gathering, Balanchine’s Serenade and Agon, Ashton’s Scènes de Ballet and Symphonic Variations.

Mark Bruce Company's Macbeth - The Three Witches

Contemporary Dance, Review March 7, 2018

Mark Bruce Company in Macbeth

By Linda

When we learned last year that Mark Bruce was going to premiere a new production of Macbeth, we immediately marked the dates in our calendar. We had…

Artists of Ballet Black in Cathy Marston's The Suit.

Ballet Companies, Rehearsals February 22, 2018

Ballet Black in Rehearsal with Cathy Marston

By Linda

When we interviewed choreographer Cathy Marston last year, she mentioned she was working with Ballet Black on an adaptation of The Suit, a short story…

Ivan Vasiliev and Tamara Rojo in Le Jeune homme et la mort

Review February 5, 2018

5 things we love from ENB’s Le Jeune Homme & La Sylphide

By Linda

English National Ballet has just finished its winter season at the London Coliseum. In this programme, audiences had the opportunity to revisit Roland Petit’s 1946 masterpiece Le…

AMORE featuring Svetlana Zakharova (second from left) in Strokes of the Tail Photo: © Jack Devant

Dancers, Review December 12, 2017

Svetlana Zakharova in Amore

By Linda

Last month, I attended the London premiere of Svetlana Zakharova’s solo project, Amore, which debuted at the Bolshoi in May 2016. I was pleasantly surprised to…