Sunday, March 19, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Canadian choreographer cuts to the heart with the Royal Ballet's first new work by a female dance-maker in 18 yearsThe Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite is one…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells, LondonSergei Polunin's new triple bill tries to find a way forward outside a traditional career " but extracurricular activities have taken a visible tollSince 2012, when he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
Barbican, LondonJulie Cunningham's first works as head of her own company have passion and subtlety, but struggle to compete with a forceful spoken soundtrackWhen dancers become choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 5, 2017
Rich Mix, LondonParsons proves himself a distinctive narrative voice with his compelling new work about a fictional celebrityWayne Parsons is a familiar figure on the UK contemporary dance s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 26, 2017
Barbican, LondonSensuality, isolation and identity are explored in three stellar works by this joyous Cuban troupeThere can be few dance companies in the world as handsome and accomplished a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 22, 2017
The detail, the exquisite control, the lyrical flow ... this clip shows why Kirkland remains a cherished legend of American balletThis is Gelsey Kirkland dancing the Act 1 variation, or solo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PM[SHARE]Want to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling…As a nation we are well supplied with choreographers. Matthew Bourne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 19, 2017
Richmond theatre, LondonWorks from the choreographer's early career show all his trademark wit, originality and eye for detailThe three works comprising Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures wer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 12, 2017
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe choreographer's piece inspired by Lisbon is sunny and seductive, but ultimately insubstantialIn 1997 the German choreographer Pina Bausch took the dancers of her co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, February 5, 2017
Barbican, LondonTop dancers, Javier de Frutos choreography, Philip Glass score and Cocteau's twisted tale don't quite add upJean Cocteau's 1929 novel Les Enfants Terribles is the story of a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 29, 2017
The Pit, Barbican, LondonDewey Dell's weird, manga comics-inspired show is an intriguing curio that overstays its welcomeDewey Dell are an Italian experimental performance group that, since …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2017
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet guest artist Xander Parish " British star of the Mariinsky " is world-class. Isn't it time he was lured back to London?Mary Skeaping's production of G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 20, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor's ambitious triptych based on the multi-dimensional works of Virginia Woolf was a gamble that has paid off in exhilarating styleWhen the final curtain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2017
Barbican, LondonHip-hop dance crew Boy Blue Entertainment tackle the nature of identity in an awesome three-part showBoy Blue Entertainment is a hip-hop dance company founded in 2002 by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2017
Grand theatre, LeedsDominique Larose's serene Beauty leads the way in David Nixon's timely take on the fairytaleNorthern Ballet's Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy story choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2016
Sadler's Wells, LondonBourne's deft and sumptuous new adaptation of The Red Shoes sticks closely to Powell and Pressburger's film, but is still finding its feet dramaticallyMatthew Bourne's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2016
Coliseum, LondonBoris Eifman's reworking of F Scott Fitzgerald is beautifully danced but stunningly insensitiveBoris Eifman is one of Russia's most prolific choreographers. In 1977, aged 30,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2016
Times were tough but inventive, with fine work from old hands and female dance-makers forcing change' Observer critics' reviews of the year in fullThis has been a year in which experience ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan has moved Swan Lake to the middle of Ireland and made it a thing of wonderThere are so many new versions of Swan Lake, and almost all of them are u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Hackney Showroom, LondonImpermanence Dance Theatre are going on a sexploration, delving into the ideas of Wilhelm Reich and the pioneering electronic music of Ursula BognerImpermanence Dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2016
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, LondonHetain Patel swaggers, sashays and speaks out in his deeply unsettling satire on misogynyHetain Patel is a performance artist from Bolton whose ne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 20, 2016
Sadler's Wells, LondonRambert dance Haydn beautifully, but was the Garden of Eden quite this decorous?Mark Baldwin, artistic director of Rambert, is not a man to shrink from a challenge. Jos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2016
Royal Opera House; the Place, LondonWayne McGregor celebrates a decade at the Royal Ballet with dystopias and dreamy la-la lands. And Charlotte Vincent patrols the pre-teen battlegroundIn ce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31AM[SHARE]Saturday, November 12, 2016
Sadler's Wells, LondonChoreographer Iván Pérez's attempt to conjure up the horrors of trench warfare is overlong and over-beautifiedThe suffering of the young men who fought in the first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:31PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2016
Jerwood Dance House, IpswichArthur Pita's latest is a little bit Snow White, a little bit HellraiserArthur Pita is one of today's most original choreographic voices. He's an accomplished fas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonFine performances lift this Royal Ballet revival of MacMillan's strange ballet about the woman who claimed to be a lost RomanovIn 1967 Kenneth MacMillan choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2016
Sadler's Wells, LondonJérôme Bel's mixed ability show is full of charm, if not entirely artlessJérôme Bel is a French choreographer whose work challenges the conventions of dance as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2016
Birmingham HippodromeDavid Bintley's uninvolving new version of The Tempest is symptomatic of an identity crisis in British balletThe Tempest, David Bintley's new work for Birmingham Royal B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2016
Royal Albert Hall; Barbican, LondonCarlos Acosta bids a glorious goodbye, while Michael Clark keeps ploughing his weird and wonderful furrowLast week Carlos Acosta, the greatest male classic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:08AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2016
Palace theatre, ManchesterEnglish National Ballet's dancers delight in Khan's 21st-century Giselle. All it needs now is a plot…Akram Khan's new production of Giselle for English National B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:51AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2016
Sadler's Wells, LondonSix dancers move as one in Sharon Eyal's gravely beautiful exploration of the obsessive-compulsive stateL-E-V is an Israeli dance company created by choreographer Sharo…
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