• Dance: best of 2006

  • By Allen Robertson

  • Time Out's dance critic Allen Robertson picks the hits (and miss) of the year

    Dance: best of 2006

    Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Sascha Vaughn

  • Do you agree? Tell us your dance highlights of 2006.

    Hits
    1 ‘Flowerbed’
    Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s anarchic mayhem set in a surreal suburbia imported from Dublin.

    2 ‘Chroma’

    Wayne McGregor’s dazzling entree to a new job as the Royal Ballet’s first resident choreographer in more than a decade.

    3 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

    Treat of the year. Quintessential trans-gender spoof ballet. A winner on all pointes. Feature continues

    Advertisement


    4
    The Place Prize
    Upping the profile of contemporary dance via a contest to seek out the best of the new.

    5 Alexander Varona

    His performance in Russell Maliphant’s ‘New Solo’ illustrates a silky, subtle and intense collaboration fusing dancer and choreographer.

    6 ‘DGV’

    Christopher Wheeldon’s latest sleek creation for the Royal Ballet. Rumour is rife that he may be headed back to London very soon.

    7 Bonachela Dance Company

    A high-profile launch for BDC, Rafael Bonachela’s own company. Dancing to die for.

    8 Jonathan Goddard

    His energy transforms Richard Alston’s ‘Gypsy Mixture’ from a good dance into a great event.

    9 ‘The Bright Stream’

    New Bolshoi comedy to Shostakovich. So entertaining it’s being brought back in August.

    Miss
    1 ‘Yippeee!!! 2006’
    Lea Anderson over-egged her Cholmondeley/Featherstonehaugh pudding and it fell flat.

     
    Do you agree? Tell us your dance highlights of 2006.

  • Add your comment to this feature

Have your say






Hotels.com
Travel Supermarket
hotel.info
Expedia.co.uk logo
Venere.com

More ways to enjoy Time Out