Friday, June 21, 2019
Southbank Centre, LondonOsipova is elegantly wretched in Arthur Pita’s horror-tinged take on a Hans Christian Andersen tale in which Death claims the life of a baby
Artists often talk abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, June 17, 2019
A screen role as an expectant dancer prepared Bobbi Jene Smith for the real thing. She talks about doing the bump … with a bump
It’s a case of life imitating art. In the new film Mari, B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSaturday, June 15, 2019
Choreographer Claire Cunningham’s new piece, which premieres at Manchester international festival, pays tribute to tribute artists
For one weekend every year, the small town of Porthcawl i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMFriday, June 14, 2019
Ino Moxo, Peruvian choreographer Oscar Naters’s new show, aims to faithfully recreate the ritual experience of taking ayahuasca – so much so the performers took the hallucinogen in rehea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThere’s a Belle and Sebastian play, a show in a hair salon, Frances Barber performing Pet Shop Boys songs and top comics including Josie Long and Stephen Fry. Here’s our guide to the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Their moves are fresh, funny and stylish; their subjects include the climate crisis, gender politics and poetry. These electrifying choreographers are on the rise
A Peter and the Wolf where …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMMonday, June 10, 2019
As the explosively powerful dancer makes the leap into film, she talks about feeling bloodied and bruised by her latest work – and how loving her dogs helps her perform
Natalia Osipova was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, June 7, 2019
The American company visited the UK with four triple bills: here are 10 things we learned from their thrilling season
1) This is a company with a hunger for new work. The second week of thei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, London A season of 10 UK premieres opens with a cold-hearted Edith Wharton tale, Soviet struggles with Shostakovich, and an X-rated artpop class
Stylish, forward-thinking, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Barbican, LondonWith unfussy, Cunningham-influenced movement alongside Kathleen Chalfont’s readings, Pam Tanowitz has distilled Eliot’s essence
Choreographer Pam Tanowitz has been quiet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMMonday, May 20, 2019
The Place, LondonBased on classical Indian dance forms, Seeta Patel’s interesting chamber version uncovers the lyricism in Stravinsky’s score
The Rite of Spring is a totemic work in the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, May 17, 2019
From Birds of Passage to Rita Ora, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonChristine and the Queens’ choreographer Marion Motin delivers a pounding debut, alongside early work by Wayne McGregor and Hofesh Shechter
French hip-hop choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Highlights of the new season include a ballet by Cathy Marston about cellist Jacqueline du Pré, and Wayne McGregor’s take on the Divine Comedy
A ballet based on the life of Jacqueline du …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMonday, May 13, 2019
The lovers are back – as jaded fortysomethings fighting over chores in Ben Duke’s production, and as lust-crazed teens in Matthew Bourne’s
Matthew Bourne never fancied remaking Romeo a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, May 10, 2019
From High Life to Joy for Ever, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThe woman who got Christine and the Queens and Dua Lipa moving talks about her switch to Rambert and partying on tour with Madonna
‘I’m a lazy girl,” says Marion Motin, laughing at her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMThursday, May 9, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonCrystal Pite reinvents the corps de ballet, alongside Christopher Wheeldon’s classy meditation and a flawed world premiere by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
The world premie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, May 6, 2019
They started out as sprinters on the racetrack – but ended up as dancers on the stage. Meet the explosive Alleyne sisters
In the summer of 2012, Kristina and Sadé Alleyne’s Olympic drea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMFriday, May 3, 2019
From Vox Lux to Stanley Kubrick, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMSunday, April 28, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe tradition-trashing dancer serves up a brilliant, table-stomping blend of experiment, absurdity and subversion
We arrive at Israel Galván’s fiesta when it feels…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMFriday, April 26, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonA crack cast fire up this romp through Fats Waller’s music, directed by Tyrone Huntley with moves by the Strictly dancer
The black box of Southwark Playhouse is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:19AMFrom Avengers: Endgame to Mary Quant, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s choreography for the composer’s music, played by cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras, is austere and enigmatic
If you were going to choose a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The idea still makes people uneasy but two new plays – Fighter and The Sweet Science of Bruising – explore the courage, pain and history of women boxers
‘I always try to say this witho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
From Loro to Stealing Sheep, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Barbican, LondonSix decades of solos form an unsentimental and surprising celebration of the legendary choreographer’s highly technical dance experiments
On what would have been Merce Cunn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMFriday, April 12, 2019
From Mid90s to Dave, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
As her acclaimed take on Four Quartets heads to London, choreographer Pam Tanowitz explains why she’s still trying to crack the poem
Her choreography has been hailed by the New York Times …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
The Sharks-v-Jets classic is told with Jerome Robbins’ ‘perfect’ moves, admits Aletta Collins. How did she create new ones?
Aletta Collins is telling me about what arrived in the post …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, April 5, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch’s masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo’s stellar triple bill
In 2016, English National Ballet d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:23AM 
