Ballet BC’s 2025 tour to the UK has seen the company perform throughout England and Scotland, including Sadler’s Wells and the Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Dancing Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Johan Inger’s PASSING, performances been met with rave reviews–including from The Times, The Guardian and The Observer. Read media coverage of the tour below.
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Canada’s leading contemporary ballet company to give premiere of double bill by Crystal Pite and Johan Inger
“Bold and bright staging and costumes, elements of folk dance, hip hop and swing, are juxtaposed with the sense of loss and sadness which run through the piece.”
by Gramilano
Read previewEmotional journeys, theatrical landscapes and the mysteries of the universe…
“With this tour, I can promise audiences are going to see incredible dancers on stage because the calibre of our dancers, their versatility and their generosity is outstanding. That is why we have choreographers coming from all over the world to work with them.”
By The Dance Art Journal
Read previewProbably the world's greatest choreographer does not like choreographing
“At the heart of Frontier, Pite says, is ‘the theme that runs through pretty much everything I make. The simplest way I can put it is that it’s the question of what moves us.'”
By David Jays, The Standard
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Frontier/PASSING review
“The 20 company dancers fling themselves into Inger’s stylised mash-up of folk dance, barn dance, hip-hop, swing and tap, embracing the absurdity that is liberally sprinkled throughout the piece.”
By Siobhan Murphy, The Stage
Read reviewBALLET BC DOUBLE BILL, Sadler’s Wells
“The stars of the night are indisputably the dancers. What a cohort. Everywhere you look one sees the ideal combination of technical prowess and artistic integrity, and this shouldn’t be underestimated. With this level of human component, Ballet BC looks in very good form for the foreseeable future.”
By Matthew Paluch, Broadway World
Read reviewHorror and comedy in a classy Canadian double bill
“A superb ensemble delivering two complementary works that are, respectively, aesthetically impressive and marked by a smart, generously crowd-pleasing touch.”
By Donald Hutera, The Times
Read reviewFizzing energy from dancers laid bare
“…these dancers are so vividly alive in Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite’s Frontier, with quicksilver reflexes and fizzing energy, even though everything’s executed with total control.”
By Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian
Read reviewFrontier and PASSING Light Up Edinburgh
“The double-bill of Crystal Pite’s Frontier and Johan Inger’s PASSING as performed by the twenty-strong Ballet BC company may prove the highest light of 2025.”
By WJ Quinn, The Quintessential Review
Read reviewA fine Ballet BC double bill
“…stunningly danced by the 20-strong company, whose style is at once contemporary and classical, finely shaped and extraordinarily fluid.”
By Sarah Crompton, The Observer
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