2012 - The Year in Dance

January

* Beauty & the Beast - Birmingham Royal Ballet - The Lowry 24-28 January [Dance Moves] ****
Read my review for The Public Reviews here


February


* The White Chalk Diaries - Peter Grist & Company - Contact Theatre - 9 February [Queer Contact] **
Another very personal but over-literal  piece of dance theatre from Peter Grist, again made baffling by choosing to work with a female dancer, making much of the content about gay experience baffling. Ambitious but without the range to meet those ambitions. Grist is an elegant, fluid and expressive dancer but maybe he needs someone else's choreographic input to push him and help him realise his intentions.
* Elektro Kif - Blanca Li  - The Lowry - 15 [Dance Moves] ***
Read my review for The Public Reviews here
* The Rodin Project - Russel Maliphant - Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield - 27 February


March

* Platform Zero - Manchester Dance Consortium showcase - Zion Arts Centre - 8 March
* The Talent - BalletBoyz - The Lowry - 14 March [Dance Moves]
* At Swim Two Boys - Earthfall - The Lowry - 20-21 March [Dance Moves]
* Nutcracker! - Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - The Lowry, 20-24 March [Dance Moves]
* Beauty & the Beast - Northern Ballet - Sheffield Lyceum - 20-24 March
* Crossing Points - Phoenix Dance Theatre - Liverpool Playhouse - 23-34 March
* Underneath the Floorboards - BalletLorent - The Lowry  25 March [Dance Moves]
* Entity - Wayne McGregor \ Random Dance - The Lowry 27 March [Dance Moves]

April

* LOL Lots of Love - Protein Dance - Sheffield Lyceum - 3 April
* Political Mother - Hofesh Shechter Company - The Lowry  27-28 April

May

* TURN 2012 - Contact Theatre - 3-5 May
* National Dance Company Wales - Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield - 9 May
* Can We Talk About This? - DV8 Physical Theatre - The Lowry 18-19 May [Dance Moves]
* Ballet Central 2012 - The Lowry 25 April

June

* Danza Contemporánea de Cuba - The Lowry - 9 June
* EDGE2012 - Contact Theatre - 21 June
* Verve 2012 - The Lowry - 29 June

September

* Swan Lake - Birmingham Royal Ballet - The Lowry - 19-22 September

October

* Love Songs Tour 2012 - Rambert Dance Company - The Lowry - 10-12 October

November

* Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Fairy Tale - Matthew Bourne's New Adventures - The Lowry - 13-17 November

The Lowry are once again gathering together all their Spring dance programming under the Dance Moves banner