Choreographer Crystal Pite and writer Jonathon Young’s first collaboration, Betroffenheit, hatched a new kind of theatrical/dance language. The soundtrack propelling the dance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMIn three years, Francesca Hayward rose from the Royal Ballet’s first artist to principal in 2016. Last year she reached a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMViviana Durante’s all-female company is purpose-built for this triple-bill tribute to the “mother of modern dance”. The revival of two short pieces
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMThis collaboration between Kate Prince’s hip-hop dance company ZooNation and singer-songwriter Sting is as successful as it is surprising. The judicious selection
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMPina Bausch made this groundbreaking work in 1977. By deconstructing formal dance structures, applying abandoned theatricality and asking performers to excavate and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMInspired by Andersen’s The Little Match Girl and the plight of refugees, this artful collaboration between Rambert and the Royal Ballet is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMChoreographer John Cranko was the Marlowe to Kenneth MacMillan’s Shakespeare. Onegin is his masterpiece, created for Stuttgart Ballet in 1965 and revised
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMMexico is too often reduced to cerveza and tequila, bandidos, big hats and even bigger cacti. Billed as ‘A waking Dream of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMBallet at the Royal Albert Hall is a risky enterprise. Derek Deane’s Swan Lake worked well in the space but Birmingham Royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMImagine a cross between Giselle and The Wizard of Oz. Death by dancing and scarlet footwear. Matthew Bourne’s interpretation of Powell and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMFrom the industrial stomp of Tap Dogs to the sole-shifting beats of Savion Glover, tap dancing continues to evolve. Michelle Dorrance is
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMEnticement. Entrapment. Enslavement. And hair. Lots of hair. Following Angelin Preljocaj’s singularly sinister vision of Snow White, this latest work appears to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMDancer, choreographer and artistic director David Bintley has led Birmingham Royal Ballet for 24 years, but this summer that all changed. He
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMEvery generation has its Romeo and Juliet. Franco Zeffirelli and Baz Luhrmann on film, Rudolf Nureyev and Kenneth MacMillan in ballet. Now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMShostakovich’s ballet about a farm workers’ collective in the Russian Steppes was briefly popular in 1935 until an article in Pravda damned
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMThis year’s theme at Giffords Circus is the Summer of Love, circa 1967, and the acts assembled by the redoubtable Nell Gifford
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMThe San Francisco Ballet concludes its London season with another scintillating trio of UK premieres. The company’s youthful vigour, physical dexterity and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMCreated in 2012 for Dutch National Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella is stirred but not shaken from its traditional roots. The shift from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMThere can be no ignoring the irony. Ballet’s ‘bad boy’ Sergei Polunin as the ‘mad monk’ Rasputin has an undeniable appropriateness. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMIt is possible to make a non-narrative ballet from a literary classic, as Crystal Pite’s The Tempest Replica and Wayne McGregor’s Woolf
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThe former dancer took over as director of the Royal Ballet in 2012 with a reputation as a safe pair of hands.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThere is a sadness at the heart of Israel Galván’s latest work. Inspired by the end of a flamenco performance when all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMWhen US senator Mitch McConnell admonished fellow senator Elizabeth Warren in 2017, who refused to be silenced, with the phrase “Nevertheless, she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMKenneth MacMillan brought psychological depth and sexual passion to the classical repertoire with his first three-act ballet. Not that you’d know it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMThree years in the making, this project from choreographer Russell Maliphant and composer Vangelis is all Greek to me. Straying well beyond
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMThe contrasts could hardly be more pronounced. Youthful vigour versus dulcet experience; aesthetic abstraction versus trad narrative; cool objectivity versus tear-jerking melodrama.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMThis touring production of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon is stripped to kill. Originated by the Royal Danish Ballet its spartan design is cool,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMIt is hard to imagine a less circus-like environment than the auditorium of the Royal Festival Hall. Yet Circus 1903 is more
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMIt was a year of peaks and troughs in 2018, of rising stars and returning veterans, old dogs and new tricks. Classical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThis Royal Ballet triple bill is a classic example of ‘Chequers Deal’ programming. The attempt to please everyone results in a deeply
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