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Reviews 

https://www.seeingdance.com/ballet-cymru-made-in-wales-211119/

"Joe Powell-Main, makes a great deal of the material that stretches the dancers to their limits". (Maggie Foyer for Seeing Dance, November 2021).

https://jelterps.blogspot.com/2021/11/

" It was a moving interpretation, enhanced by Joe Powell-Main’s beautiful expressive shoulders and arms which also spun his wheelchair with incredible speed and strength. " (Joanna Goodman for Terpsichore November 2021)

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/aug/23/royal-ballet-performance-will-have-a-dancer-who-uses-a-wheelchair

"You get the really rich movement from his chair, the gliding motions … It’s like an extension of his body.” (Isabel Lubach, First Artist of the Royal Ballet, interview for the Guardian written by Dalya Alberge. August 2022)

Joe Powell-Main in Rehearsal with Ballet Cymru 2021. Photography by Sian Trenberth. 

Joe Powell-Main performing with Ballet Cymru in Liam Riddick's Murmurations. Photography by Sian Trenberth. 

https://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/2022/11/03/world-ballet-day-and-a-very-special-nutcracker-rehearsal/

"We were so pleased to see some rehearsal footage from Alexander Campbell and Kristen McNally’s Sleepwalker, a contemporary reimagining of La Sonnambula. The piece is a high-intensity duet between Isabel Lubach and School alumnus and wheelchair dancer, Joe Powell-Main." (The Royal Ballet School on World Ballet Day 2022 Live Stream).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD75RJQYAN8

"The way that Joe moves is only making the whole thing better." (Alexander Campbell Principal Dancer of the Royal Ballet and Director of Sleepwalker).

https://entertainmentsouthwales.com/2023/05/25/review-i-am-8-memo-arts-centre-barry/

"Joe Powell-Main a differently abled dancer whose talent and ability is truly inspiring." (Rebecca Royall, I am 8 review for Entertainment South Wales. May 2023)

Joe Powell-Main Rehearsing at the Royal Opera House in 2022. Photography by Dylan Vivian. 

Joe Powell-Main and Isabel Lubach rehearsing Sleepwalker 2022. Photography by Alexander Campbell. 

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