Friday, 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 07:23AMMonday, April 1, 2019
Ballet shoes have always been a pale peachy pink because it was assumed dancers were, too. Now a British footwear company is striking a blow for ballerinas of colour everywhere
When Ballet B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Matthew Ball sumptuously express the recklessness of youth in Kenneth MacMillan’s fine ballet
We think of Romeo and Juliet as a story about …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMFriday, March 22, 2019
Print Room at the Coronet, London Saburo Teshigawara’s take on the Russian classic isolates its hero, creating striking scenes that leave you pining for a connection
Japanese choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMMonday, March 18, 2019
Ballet and film complement each other perfectly in a biopic of the superstar dancer that captures life under Castro’s rule
Dance on film can have many functions. It might act as a showstop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:29AMBarbican, LondonThe company’s triple bill includes Ingoma, a powerful piece inspired by events that led to South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement
Ballet Black may be, by its nature, poli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, March 12, 2019
She conquered Strictly while still living in a bedsit. Now the dancing multi-linguist and trained engineer is making the leap into musicals – where she’s planning to ‘go crazy’
Glamo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
From Captain Marvel to Henry Moore, 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, March 7, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonWith one piece choreographed by the company and the other by Christopher Wheeldon, this is a fresh, thoughtful show
Over the last 19 years, BalletBoyz has metamorphos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
After her celebrated Jane Eyre, Cathy Marston is staging a revelatory regal ballet. She talks about binge-watching ITV’s Victoria and the politics of storytelling
Queen Victoria is fallin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:29AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonClassical virtuosity combines with contemporary sensibility in this selection of highlights from a 25-year repertoire
‘How small a thought it takes to fill a whole …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMFriday, March 1, 2019
Barbican, LondonInspired by a sci-fi novella, the artist teams up with Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener for a bracing dance experiment
A woman’s face looms, very large and unnervingly clo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
The newly knighted choreographer is shutting his company due to cuts and has snapped his achilles tendon. But he’s full of optimism about the future
I’m expecting Richard Alston to be an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMSunday, February 24, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe loss of the company’s founder Pina Bausch a decade ago is at the heart of this meticulous meditation on grief and death
Bon Voyage, Bob … is only the second n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, February 21, 2019
With a dance version of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, a collaboration with Greek composer Vangelis and his touring show Silent Lines, the questing choreographer is busier than ever
I’m lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMFriday, February 15, 2019
From Notting Hill to Fatboy Slim, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04PMSadler’s Wells, LondonChoreographed by Dimitris Papaioannou, the company’s first new work since its founder died in 2009 is uncanny in its blending of his and her imaginationsWhen Pina B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThursday, February 14, 2019
When Jeanguy Saintus first saw Stravinsky’s Rite, he was reminded of his religion’s initiation ceremonies. Now, he has created his own spirited version of the balletSince its infamous pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, February 11, 2019
A new project is looking at how choreography can improve urban engineering, but there has long been a profound relationship between cities and danceIn the crowded conventillos (shared teneme…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMThursday, February 7, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonFrom Aletta Collins’ refreshing abstraction to Calvin Richardson’s human piñatas, this is just what the Royal needsThe musicians of the London Sinfonietta are i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonGandini Juggling and Alexander Whitley’s collaboration is full of simple pleasures and intricate skillA hybrid of juggling and contemporary dance? Now that’s nich…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMThursday, January 31, 2019
Barbican, LondonPeeping Tom tackle old age with originality, warmth and humour in the second part of their eerie family-themed trilogyLast year they tackled mums, now attention turns to dad.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, January 28, 2019
In 1969, a New Yorker from Martha Graham’s company set up Britain’s first contemporary dance school. Fifty years on, Cohan is a sage of the studio – and has fears about the artform’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonFive female performers are doing things on their own terms in a show that shuns spectacle and takes apart circus tricksAn acrobat named Kate takes the microphone and tell…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMSunday, January 20, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonLiam Scarlett’s 2010 word is as lyrical as ever, while strong performances and a live pigeon can’t save Frederick Ashton’s cutesy romcom When it premiered in 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMFriday, January 18, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonThe 55-year-old partnered with American Ballet Theater principal Herman Cornejo in thoughtful, poised interpretations of McGregor, Maliphant and othersThe second com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMFriday, January 11, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe French artist Olivier de Sagazan turns himself into a sculpture in this terrifying, visceral performanceOlivier de Sagazan’s Transfiguration, a performance firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMMonday, January 7, 2019
BBC1’s The Greatest Dancer and Channel 4’s Flirty Dancing are going toe to toe for audiences. But can they fill Strictly’s shoes?The new year starts with two new dance shows to fill th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMFriday, January 4, 2019
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet’s revival of Derek Deane’s 1997 staging has a flock of well-schooled swans and some standout solos, but there is a lack of chemistry between the l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, January 2, 2019
Blanchett and Hiddleston get sexual, there are chills in a Glasgow tower block, Matthew Bourne takes on the star-crossed lovers, plus Catherine Tate, Tim Minchin and Ben Elton return to the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMFrom Hitler and Cath Kidston to Freud and Madonna, a dance-drag act makes unlikely pairings duet together Unmissable theatre, dance and comedy for 2019About five years ago, in a room above a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM 
