Sunday, March 6, 2016
Royal Opera House; Pleasance theatre, LondonSupporting players shine in a splendid Giselle, while a two-woman show about urban life has wit and poignancyGiselle is the greatest of the Romant…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AMSunday, February 28, 2016
Wilton’s Music Hall; Greenwich Dance, LondonBlood and terror saturate Mark Bruce’s vivid Odyssey. And take a bow, Tara d’ArquianMark Bruce is one of the most consistently thought-provo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:38AMSunday, February 21, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonNatalia Osipova is a natural as the scandalous Madame X in Christopher Wheeldon’s new ballet Strapless. If only we cared about her…The Royal Ballet’s current t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:27AMSunday, February 14, 2016
Palais Garnier, ParisWith the mood still raw after his resignation from Paris Opera Ballet, Benjamin Millepied presents a provocative triple billOpening the day after Benjamin Millepied’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMSunday, February 7, 2016
Last week Benjamin Millepied resigned as head of dance at the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet, criticising the company’s rigid ways. Luke Jennings, who spoke to the choreographer twice in r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:21AMBarbican, London Yoann Bourgeois’s circus-influenced piece has a dramatic tilting stage and his dancers in a spinYoann Bourgeois is a French choreographer based in Grenoble. He came to dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:19AMSunday, January 31, 2016
Peacock theatre, LondonJakop Ahlbom’s loving homage to horror films is a masterclass in time-and-motion stagecraftJakop Ahlbom’s brilliantly strange Lebensraum was one of the cult succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AMSunday, January 24, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonHayward is astonishing, easy perfection in classic Frederick Ashton. In the Royal Ballet’s second cast, Steven McRae takes commandThe Royal Ballet’s revival of F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMMonday, January 18, 2016
The choreographer Akram Khan has said that the number of female choreographers should not be increased “for the sake of it”, despite industry concerns that women in dance face much great…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMSunday, January 17, 2016
Roundhouse, London Akram Khan dances what is likely to be one of his last roles in his supremely potent retelling of the MahabharataIn 1987, 13-year-old Akram Khan was cast in Peter Brook’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AMSunday, December 20, 2015
Festival theatre, EdinburghChristopher Hampson’s lyrical Cinderella for Scottish Ballet delivers drama, emotion and really annoying stepsisters…A fairy-story ballet is not easy to get ri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMSunday, December 13, 2015
Enthralling dance came in tiny packages in 2015, as productions triumphed on a shoestring, a cliff-face, a grain of sand… • Observer critics’ reviews of the year in full2015 was a year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSadlers Wells, LondonA traditional take on the story of Aurora and the dark fairy Carabosse suffers from the lack of a believable love story, but has a suitably magical feelMatthew Bourne’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMColiseum, LondonThe virtuoso dance star approaches his final farewell with an evening of short worksOnly rarely does a male ballet dancer truly capture the public’s imagination. When it ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMSunday, December 6, 2015
German choreographer whose bleak vision changed the face of European danceThe work of the German choreographer Pina Bausch, who has died aged 68 of cancer, had a controversial, often violent…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24PMPalais Garnier, ParisThe Paris Opera Ballet celebrates Pierre Boulez’s 90th birthday with a strong triple bill that features two British choreographersLast week, the Paris Opera Ballet pre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:37AMSunday, November 29, 2015
Chelsea theatre, LondonJoseph Mercier reimagines Swan Lake as one man’s struggle with the (naked) self. And a very dead birdThe reworking of classical ballets by contemporary choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMSunday, November 22, 2015
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet’s Ashton double bill finds Cuthbertson and Muntagirov struggling to take offThe Two Pigeons was choreographed by Frederick Ashton and first perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSunday, November 15, 2015
DanceEast, Ipswich; Galvanisers Union, LondonRenaud Wiser’s take on the Snowden affair has more craft than story, while Kaleidoscopic Arts head for the pub…Renaud Wiser is a Swiss-born d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, November 8, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, LondonChristopher Bruce rocks, Didy Veldman takes on Picasso and Kim Brandstrup gets to grips with Schoenberg in Rambert’s triple billRambert’s latest triple bill turns…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, November 1, 2015
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet showcases its best and its most chaotic in the same evening, from impeccable Balanchine to Carlos Acosta’s new CarmenThe Royal Ballet’s new quad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMFriday, October 23, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe world’s deepest cave is a metaphor for hell in La Veronal’s arcane but rewarding production that’s indebted to BuñuelToday’s choreographers must know mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:29AMSunday, October 18, 2015
DeNada Dance Theatre’s smart meditations on sexual identity and machismo could teach larger ensembles a thing or twoCarlos Pons Guerra grew up on the island of Gran Canaria. As a teenager …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AMSunday, October 11, 2015
O2 Academy, London Hofesh Shechter has this rock venue jumping with his cathartic piece about indoctrinationPolitical Mother, created by choreographer-composer Hofesh Shechter in 2010, is a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:20AMSunday, October 4, 2015
Linbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonThe tender expressiveness of 52-year-old Ferri carries Martha Clarke’s adaptation of Colette’s obsessive love storyChéri, the 1920 novel b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMSunday, September 27, 2015
Royal Opera House, LondonGary Avis’s charismatic Tybalt steals the show in this 50th-anniversary production of MacMillan’s balletWhen I was a student, I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov dance Rom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMSunday, September 20, 2015
Lyric Hammersmith, London Residents of a towerblock fight developers in Wolfgang Stange’s latest, as he continues to explore the lives of people marginalised by differenceIn 1980, a young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMSunday, September 13, 2015
Mikhailovsky theatre, St PetersburgBackstage politics aside, the Mikhailovksy’s Le Corsaire is a winnerLast week the Mikhailovsky Ballet unveiled their new production of Le Corsaire, an or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMSunday, September 6, 2015
The Place, LondonTouch Wood tantalises with works in progress that use Faust, MTV’s The Grind and Pride and Prejudice for inspirationThe informal sharing of works in progress has become an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:43AMSunday, August 30, 2015
Various venues; Edinburgh PlayhouseThis year’s Edinburgh offerings proved beyond doubt that the most original work is found outside the official programmeSmall is most definitely beautiful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMSunday, July 26, 2015
Coliseum, LondonNatalia Osipova and her ex, Ivan Vasiliev, steal the show in Ardani’s adventurous triple bill of contemporary danceArdani Artists is a New York-based agency representing a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:57AM 
