To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
IN WHAT’S something of a history lesson, this mixed bill perfectly showcases the Royal Ballet’s matchless skill and rich heritage.
Works by the company’s founding choreographer Frederick Ashton and his successor Kenneth MacMillan are completed by Rudolf Nureyev’s version of Marius Petipa’s final act of the Imperial Russian classic Raymonda.
MacMillan’s Concerto, set to Shostakovich’s piano concerto No. 2, is awash with vibrancy and colour as dancers in orange and lemon costumes leap in jetes across the stage with a synchronised grace.
WILL STONE witnesses an experimental piano concerto inspired by the work of a young Jewish victim of the Nazis
WILL STONE is impressed by a tour de force rendition of three decades’ worth of orchestral chamber pop
MATTHEW HAWKINS recommends three memorable performances from Scottish dance artists Barrowland Ballet, In the Fields Project, and Wendy Houston
Given the tawdry push and pull around disability benefits, MATTHEW HAWKINS relishes Dan Daw’s defiant celebration of body and sexuality


