Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet is the UK's leading ballet company, and Swan Lake the world's most famous ballet, meaning both are assessed more closely than when dance…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
Sadler's Wells, London: New dance in the past decade has been dominated by choreographers who mix styles, with, for example, Russell Maliphant splicing ballet, modern dance and capoeira, Hof…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMMonday, January 26, 2015
Royal Opera House, Covent Garden: John Cranko was not the first choreographer to portray real human beings rather than mythic swans and sylphs. Nor was he the last, nor arguably the most suc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMThursday, January 8, 2015
London Coliseum: It is bold casting to pair Alina Cojocaru and Ivan Vasiliev as the leads in Swan Lake. While undoubtedly box-office gold, the duo has very different styles and strengths - s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMFriday, December 12, 2014
London Coliseum: The Nutcracker is a famously difficult ballet to stage - even the best productions struggle to link the first dramatic act with the second dance act which have few narrative…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMWednesday, November 26, 2014
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: With 10 dancers, including one guest, stable management, and Arts Council funding that's escaped the recent cuts, more is expected of Phoenix Dance Theat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMMonday, November 3, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: Petipa and Tchaikovsky, Balanchine and Stravinsky, Cunningham and Cage - the list of collaborating composers and choreographers is illustrious, with the ballets they …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMMonday, September 29, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: Given its central position in the Royal Ballet's repertory - and arguably late 20-century dance - it's fitting that the company is opening its 2014-15 se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMThursday, July 24, 2014
London Coliseum: The popularity of athleticism, and so-called 'bra and knicker ballets' - where the dancers wear little more than underwear - has sidelined many traditional product…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Peacock Theatre, London: Spanish flamenco, Argentinian tango, Cuban salsa and Brazilian samba make endlessly watchable displays of theatrical joie de vivre, and so it is with Brasil Brasilei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThursday, July 3, 2014
Peacock Theatre, London: Following its successful debut in 2012, New English Ballet Theatre returns for a second season at the Peacock Theatre with a mixed bill of new work.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: It is often said that the dancers of Nederlands Dans are some of the best in the world, and the company's current visit to London confirms this in spades. Based …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Peacock Theatre, London: Dancer-director Rasta Thomas is little known in the UK, but his Bad Boys of Dance troupe's London debut looks set to change all that. The Californian born, ball…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Royal Albert Hall: English National Ballet director Tamara Rojo scored a major coup when she persuaded her former Royal Ballet partner to dance Romeo opposite her Juliet at the Royal Albert …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: It's no surprise that Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's new dance work is set to the music of the contemporary composer Gerard Grisey. De Keersmaeker's dist…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMThursday, May 15, 2014
Royal Opera House, London: The strength of the Royal Ballet is often said to be the diversity of its repertory and the range of its dancers - this is on clear view in this mixed bill, which …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Peacock Theatre, London: Apart from needing a little updating, and a little editing of one or two dance numbers, Havana Rakatan is a near perfect dance show. Purist may quibble about its his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
Linbury Studio, London: For a small, fledgling (founded in 2012) and modestly funded dance company, HeadSpace Dance is making progress in leaps and bounds. Its founders, one-time Northern Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMThursday, April 10, 2014
London Coliseum: Because Swan Lake is the most famous ballet in the world, modern-day choreographers can't resist reinterpreting the Tchaikovsky/Petipa original - some new versions prov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMThursday, April 3, 2014
Barbican Theatre, London: English National Ballet director Tamara Rojo here challenges the idea that the company only does classical ballet with a mixed bill of mostly new work marking the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
The Print Room, London: Following his water-inspired piece Flow at the Print Room last year, the venue's associate artist Hubert Essakow returns with Ignis, a new work drawing on the id…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMMonday, February 10, 2014
Sadler's Wells, London: When the German choreographer Pina Bausch died in 2009, many feared her work might not survive. How could her surreal, sinister, and hugely influential productions co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet's Nutcracker is a great Christmas treat for children, but its seasonal performances of Jewels offers much more for grown-ups. Made in 1967, c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMThursday, December 12, 2013
London Coliseum: English National Ballet's annual Christmas Nutcracker is a popular seasonal tradition, with some 10 productions of the ballet since the company was formed in 1950. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Lilian Baylis Studio, London: Sadler's Wells Associate Artist Jonzi D has curated and hosted the theatre's annual hip-hop festival Breakin' Convention for a decade, but the Br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: The second programme in the two-programme visit of the Mark Morris Dance Group confirms both his skill as a dancemaker and the ability of his dancers. In recent years…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTuesday, November 19, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: The first of Stuttgart Ballet's two-programme visit to London is a gala-style mixed bill of no less than 13 short ballets made specifically for the company. Desp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AMMonday, November 11, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet's first mixed bill of its 2013-14 season opens with Chroma, Wayne McGregor's ballet that has become a modern classic. Often revived sinc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMThursday, November 7, 2013
Barbican Theatre, London: The Barbican opens its two-week centenary celebrations of Benjamin Britten with a quadruple bill of short works by choreographer Richard Alston. Combined with the l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMMonday, October 21, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Since its creation in 1965, the Royal Ballet's Romeo and Juliet has been a favourite with audiences, and the choice role for dancers, be it the leads of Romeo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Wilton's Music Hall, London: Dracula is not so much a monster as a mirror to our darker desires. The idea that Dracula and the hero Jonathan Harker might understand each other, and recognise…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AM 
