The Telegraph: She Persisted, ENB, Sadler’s Wells, review: an all-guns #MeToo broadside

By Mark Monahan

5 April 2019

Is it encouraging and emancipating – or patronising and pigeonholing – to showcase “female choreographers”? Either way, there’s no doubt that women are sorely under-represented in the realm of dance-creation, and you could hardly accuse English National Ballet (under dancer-director Tamara Rojo) of not sticking to its guns.

Three years ago, it unveiled She Said, a triple bill of new works by women. Now, also at Sadler’s Wells, it is serving up an even more explicit #MeToo-era broadside, with She Persisted. 

Read the full review in The Telegraph.