Two works engaged with the personal yet universal issues of gender and identity, with strong sound design and excellent performances.

  Pros: A programme of finely tuned and fast-paced choreography which elicits technical and musical prowess. Cons: A characteristic as much as a con, but a little too repetitive in movement terms. This programme marks Richard Alston’s fiftieth year as a choreographer, so what better to way to celebrate than by presenting an evening which combines new work alongside extracts of that which spans the last five decades. We start with the new Cut and Run by Associate Choreographer and ...

As his eponymous dance company celebrates its 20th anniversary, Richard Alston CBE reflects on the road travelled and the road ahead.