Rambert Dance Company

"When a role has been made famous by Vaslav Nijinsky, you don’t let just anyone get their hands on it. Astutely, current Rambert Artistic Director, Mark Baldwin, chose Dane Hurst for the job, a dancer who compels the eye almost as much as Nijinsky must have done. Watching Hurst move like a human statue….there was a definite sense of living history." (L’Après-midi d’un faune - The Scotsman, February 2012)

"an evening of dance as diverse and technically proficient as the company itself" (The Scotsman, February 2012)

"Now in its 85th year, Rambert’s place at the top of the UK’s contemporary dance ladder remains secure. This is thanks in no small part to the sheer excellence of its dancers. Is there nothing they can’t do?" (The Times, November 2011)

"Rambert has always, throughout its 85-year history, been a daring company…in the Baldwin era, it has become a pre-eminent artistic force, nurturing the growing popularity of dance" (Daily Telegraph, September 2011)

"Rambert, which celebrates its 85th birthday this year, is in very good shape for its birthday… the dancing is splendid...Rambert’s dancers are terrific; intelligent and stylish across a range of repertory." (The Independent, June 2011)

“Cardoon Club is the perfect title for a work that is surreal, spiky and lush… while the piece revels in its own high-jinks pastiche, its shimmies and high kicks
are all pinned to an austere, structural logic, with the moves sometimes stripped back to pure form and pattern. It's like minimalism dressed up to party. Sly, rigorous and fun.” (The Guardian, November 2010)

“A company replete with sharp, cool and inventive talent… Awakenings is both disturbing and moving to watch, and shows to perfection how dance can sometimes do things that other art forms simply cannot.” (The Daily Telegraph, September 2010)