Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Pit, LondonFleur Elise Noble’s fantasy show at the London international mime festival is highly original and unsettling
The London international mime festival (43 years old and stronge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonAerial theatre company Ockham’s Razor deftly and poignantly explore age and innocence
There is a wonderful warmth in the work of aerial theatre company Ockham�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, January 9, 2020
Historical ballets are rife with offensive colonial politics but choreographers and dancers are finding creative ways to change them for today’s audiences
A 19th-century worldview informs …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMColiseum, LondonWhile its story of slavery and exotica is dubious, ENB’s virtuoso dancers sparkle as much as the fake jewels
Perhaps because ballet as an art form is so unreal, it’s eas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMMonday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, December 27, 2019
As karaoke versions of musicals take off, we chat to punters at two West End shows – strictly during the interval, of course – to gauge opinion on audience participation
‘It’ll have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFrom Jojo Rabbit to Craig David, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, December 22, 2019
Royal Festival Hall, London
In a culture of special effects, it is the moments of connection, creativity and wonder that matter
Circus 1903 – in pictures
Playing its second year as an alte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, December 15, 2019
A snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners
More on the best culture of 2019 Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMSunday, December 8, 2019
London ColiseumEdward Clug strips back Shakespeare, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui riffs on Nijinsky and Wayne McGregor teams up with Manfred Thierry Mugler in this rich Russian triple bill
What do y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Coliseum, LondonA stylish riff on Coco Chanel’s place in ballet history and a regal mocking of Handel make a double bill where style outshines insight
The indomitable Boshoi ballerina Svet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonFrancesca Hayward sparkles in this twee revival, a luminous presence in an inconsequential story about a lifesize doll
There are ballets of magical otherworldliness,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, November 28, 2019
The Place, LondonOn their final tour, Richard Alston Dance Company take it back to where it all began with a moving survey of their 25-year history
It is a season of farewells for the Richar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Shot on location with lashings of fighting and flirting, Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words is a vibrant, up-close take on one of the Royal Ballet’s best-loved gems
It’s been an ongoing quan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PMFriday, November 22, 2019
From Frozen II to Anselm Kiefer, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days
(Jennifer Lee, Chris Buck, 2019, US) 103 mins Continue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
From the Chinese scene in Nutcracker to the Moor in Petrushka, are some ballets now offensively outdated? We ask big names in dance if they should be preserved, changed – or binned
It’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AMSadler’s Wells, LondonCarlos Acosta’s Havana-based troupe makes no wrong steps in charming, evocative and sharply technical mixed bill
It’s only three years since Cuban ballet star Car…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMFriday, November 15, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMichelle Dorrance’s superb pieces range from rubber-legged slapstick to brilliantly musical moves
Michelle Dorrance may be a dancer, but musicianship is the bedrock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonRelationships between the Israeli choreographer’s idiosyncratic dancers play out on stage in a surreal and touching show
There’s a man in a dress, another wearing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonIt’s hard not to warm to this bright Welsh company, but some of the more experimental works were confused in design and execution
It takes a lot of grit and plu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonYasmine Naghdi conquers physics in a fairytale production with intricate and intense performances
What is the appeal to adults of an old-fashioned fairytale? This on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, November 7, 2019
Linbury theatre, LondonWorks by Kenneth Tindall, Mlindi Kulashe and Morgann Runacre-Temple give these dancers a chance to get their bodies around abstraction
Trends for favoured composers i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA group of young prestige dancers from all over the world throw themselves utterly into a uneven triple bill
The deal with Rambert’s sister company, Rambert2, is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMWednesday, October 30, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonGuests Ballet Black steal the show with Cathy Marston’s masterful The Suit, while newcomer Jack Lister offers little substance but plenty of style
In an unusually b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Athletic star dancer who dazzled as Spinderella in the hit West End show Into the Hoods
In the sometimes macho world of hip-hop dance, a form that demands explosive power and immense strengt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, October 25, 2019
The vision of this Greek choreographer – tipped as a major talent of the future at London’s Dance Umbrella festival – is ‘beautifully different’
To write about contemporary dance i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMWednesday, October 23, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Reece Clarke’s masterclass in clarity is the highlight in a night of Macmillan, Ashton and Petipa
It’s a seemingly random selection that m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, October 21, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonLighting patterns sweep across Russell Maliphant’s dancers, who move with seamless fluidity
You won’t find steps in Russell Maliphant’s choreography, so much as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
The Yard, LondonIn Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus, the Northern Irish dancer embodies a group rarely explored in dance
A car revs up outside the theatre and Oona Doherty tumbles ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMMonday, October 14, 2019
The finalists of Boris Charmatz’s Danse Élargie competition squared up to today’s doom and gloom
There are questions about the validity of scoring art (hey, some of us have made a livin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PM 
