Monday, 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 07:53AMThursday, October 10, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Wayne McGregor's style and rigorous talent has earned him two of the top jobs in British dance - not only is he the resident choreographer at The Royal Ballet bu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AMFriday, August 16, 2013
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, London: Few dance makers have been as successful as Kate Prince at crafting family shows from hip-hop moves. While some excel at the dance while negle…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMWednesday, July 17, 2013
Coliseum, London: London is awash with Russian ballet this summer. Last week saw the Stanislavsky troupe at the Coliseum and the week after next the Bolshoi arrives at the Opera House. This …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMMonday, July 8, 2013
Coliseum, London: After the predominantly heritage ballets of its first programme, Boston Ballet's second mixed bill focused on the work of contemporary dance makers. It was an impressi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMWednesday, June 26, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: It is often said that the best ballets are those where the music and dance is so well matched you somehow see the sound and hear the steps. This alliance of motion an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Sadler's Wells: The return of Sylvie Guillem's triple bill of contemporary work to Sadler's Wells two years after its premiere confirms her enduring appeal and undiminished talent.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMMonday, May 20, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: "Once, the only sounds to be heard were the buzzing of bees in the grass and the song of birds in the sky," is the evocative opening of Varmints, Helen Ward…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThursday, April 18, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London: Romeo and Juliet is one of the most popular and most performed ballets in the world, with most of the major troupes having a version in their repertories. National Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Although injury meant Alina Cojocaru missed her scheduled performance of the lead role in the first night of the current run of La Bayadere, Roberta Marquez was an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
London Coliseum: The Mikhailovsky Ballet continues its packed London visit with its 2010 revival of the Soviet-era Laurencia. Little seen in the West, it tells the Spanish tale of the spirit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: Since it was choreographed just two years ago, Christopher Wheeldon's ballet version of Alice in Wonderland has been revived twice. This indicates its huge po…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: The return of Tamara Rojo and Sergei Polunin to The Royal Ballet, albeit as guest performers, was the big draw of the company's latest mixed bill. Rojo shifte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMThursday, February 7, 2013
The Print Room, London: Providing the opportunities, and the physical space, for dance-makers to flex their choreographic muscles is a vital part of the arts ecology. Small-scale venues have…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Royal Opera House, London: The Royal Ballet's new-ish director Kevin O'Hare has provided the perfect Christmas mix. While The Nutcracker provides family-friendly attractions, this …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:22AMFriday, November 23, 2012
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: A long-running complaint in the dance world is that there are insufficient opportunities for fledgling dance makers to practise their craft. Part of this is t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMMonday, October 29, 2012
Linbury Studio Theatre, London: Phoenix Dance Theatre's visit to the Linbury Studio Theatre is its first to London since appearing at Sadler's Wells in April 2008. During the past …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Milton Keynes Theatre: Tamara Rojo begins her first season as director of English National Ballet with Kenneth MacMillan's version of The Sleeping Beauty. It is a significant choice and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Royal Opera House: Swan Lake is one of the most traditional and demanding ballets in the repertory, and it is therefore significant that the Royal Ballet opens its 2012-13 season - and Kevin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMThursday, September 20, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: San Francisco Ballet completes its two-week, three programme visit to Sadler's Wells with a final mixed bill that confirmed the company's range and flair. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMonday, September 17, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: San Francisco Ballet's second mixed bill of its three-programme visit demonstrated not just the company's commitment to new work - a commitment few ballet c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMSadler's Wells, London: Sadler's Wells kicks off its autumn 2012 season with a two-week, three-programme visit from San Francisco Ballet. Not seen in London since 2004, the company is o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMMonday, August 6, 2012
London Coliseum: A change to the advertised casting meant English National Ballet's summer run of Swan Lake at the Coliseum opened not with the lead couple Daria Klimentova and Vadim Mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:11AMWednesday, July 25, 2012
London Coliseum: After the narrative muddle of his Swan Lake - which opened his Tchaikovsky Trilogy - Peter Schaufuss's version of The Sleeping Beauty was even more confusing. It ostens…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
London Coliseum: Peter Schaufuss' Tchaikovsky Trilogy is a re-working of the composer's three famous ballet scores - Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker. Schaufuss ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMMonday, July 9, 2012
Peacock Theatre: Given the limited opportunities available to classical dancers, any new ballet company is good news. Debuting in 2012, New English Ballet Theatre's aim is to stage new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMMonday, July 2, 2012
Royal Opera House: The Royal Ballet's penultimate programme of its 2011/12 season, which is also Monica Mason's last as its director, is a triple bill that demonstrates the company…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:35AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Sadler's Wells: After the super-serious season opener Viktor (1986), and the intermittently more playful Nur Du (1996), the 10-show festival of Pina Bausch's work took a significant cha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Sadler's Wells/Barbican Theatre: World Cities is a month-long season of the ten productions choreographed by Pina Bausch. She made the work in response to cities around the world, from Rome …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMWednesday, June 6, 2012
Wilton's Music Hall, London: Mark Bruce's new dance-theatre work is a sequence of scenes that most closely resemble a wacky, menacing take on Shakespeare's Tempest. There is a ship…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMThursday, May 24, 2012
Sadler's Wells, London: Reviving three early pieces by Matthew Bourne is a fitting way to mark his 25 years in the theatre.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AM 
