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Laban theatre, LondonThe company of disabled and non-disabled dancers presented three stimulating works – from living-doll cameos and gladiatorial rituals to a study of human vulnerability…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AMZoo Nation's rhythmic fireworks and soulful music make you want to get up and dance• Read more from the Musicals we love seriesDespite breaking box-office records for a West End dance show…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMPrint Room, LondonThe second in Hubert Essakow's trilogy conjures a love triangle through vignettes fired by fantasy, rivalry and remembranceThe second of Hubert Essakow's planned trilogy of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMBarbican, LondonScritti Politti meets pilates and punk in Clark's focused triple bill, exploring the tension between formality and urgent energyCharacteristically, Michael Clark's All Three …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMRoyal Opera House, LondonShakespearean English meets Welsh in this curious multimedia Macbeth with fascinating – and curious – resultsJudith Roberts's Cardiff-based company De Oscuro spe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:17AMRoyal Opera House, LondonOne of Wayne McGregor's most enjoyable works begins a mixed evening that concludes with Kenneth MacMillan's crude interpretation of StravinskyIt may be called Chroma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AMCentral Saint Martins, LondonThe works in Trisha Brown's farewell tour are a bracing pleasure to watchLate last year, pioneering American choreographer Trisha Brown announced she'd be retiri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMAn exhibition in Liverpool aims to acknowledge the richness of black dance in Britain, from the 1940s to the present day"Like Britain itself," says dance history professor Ramsay Burt, "Brit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:10AMSadler's Wells, LondonFor 20 years, the American choreographer William Forsythe was director of the Frankfurt Ballet, where he created a series of highly technical, determinedly experimental…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMThe Place, LondonTen years after his first Scottish Dance Theatre commission, Montreal-based Victor Quijada has returned with Second Coming – aptly titled not just as his second company pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMThe Place, LondonIf it's new year, it's time for Resolution!, the Place's platform for new works by novice choreographers. Artists ranging from Wayne McGregor to Tino Sehgal took their first…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSadler's Wells, LondonCesena is choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's sequel to En Atendant, with which it has much in common. It begins as En Atendant had ended, with a naked man in da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMSadler's Wells, LondonAs a gaunt man slowly raises a flute and exhales into it raggedly, an unearthly noise emerges: a blend of ascending siren whistles and long, rasping sighs like the groa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMTate Tanks, LondonCross-disciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary ... the terms are often used rather nebulously in the admittedly nebulous field of live art. But the word that spri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMTrafalgar Square, LondonWhat's the big idea behind Big Dance? The biannual London-based programme is designed to big up the profile of dance through a network of assorted events, performance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMBarbican, LondonPina Bausch's "travelogue" works are less portraits of places than composites of haphazard snapshots, each scene filtered through the weird and sometimes wonderful lenses of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMLilian Baylis, LondonWith his grey shorts, buttoned-up shirt and floppy hair, Thibault Lac looks like a serious schoolboy reciting his homework as he explains the title of the piece we are a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMSadler's Wells, LondonFor three days each spring, the Breakin' Convention festival turns Sadler's Wells into a hip-hop hive, every foyer, studio and auditorium abuzz with workshops and shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMLinbury, LondonPlatforms for emerging artists are often required to jettison coherence in favour of choreographic diversity. The stylistic lurches between pieces can leave you a little seasi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMSadler's Wells, LondonThe annual Flamenco festival at Sadler's Wells has always showcased the diversity of flamenco. This year's central gala performance was a welcome opportunity …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMSadler's Wells, LondonLin Hwai-Min's White, for his company Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, is a work in three parts made at two different times: the first section in 1998, the rest in 2…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMThe Place, LondonThis year's Dance Umbrella festival sees contemporary dance acknowledging its own history. The latest programme to feature rare revivals of old works is by Richard Alston Da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMAn American experimental stalwart who went from avant garde work with found objects to finding a visual style for Philip GlassIn shortLook at a portrait of Lucinda Childs's face ("like Cathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonCandoco certainly don't play safe in their programming. For the 20th-anniversary tour of this integrated company of disabled and non-disabled dancers, the centrep…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMPeacock theatre, LondonA while into Shaun Parker's dancework Happy as Larry you start asking: just how happy was Larry anyway? For although programme and publicity suggest that the piece is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMSadler's Wells, LondonTwo images keep coming to mind during Emanuel Gat's Brilliant Corners: birds and brains. The group sequences embody them most vividly. In the opening, for example, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonJean Abreu has taken a bold step with Inside. The feline fluidity and spacious abstraction that marked his earlier pieces are now alloyed with a new element of ps…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSadler's Wells, LondonBelgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is a huge fan of comic books, Japanese manga in particular. And perhaps that's the problem with his new work TeZukA, inspired…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMMerce Cunningham's legacy tour, a triple treat from the Birmingham Royal Ballet and a cross-dressing comedyAkram Khan Company: DeshChoreographer Akram Khan may perform less than he used to, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMFrom 1950s Beijing to this year's Edinburgh festival, China's national ballet braved revolution and reforms to become a leading presence on the world stageIn shortThe National Ballet of Chin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMColiseum, LondonTango is a dance of grace and danger, a dance that embodies desire in its web of glances, advances and evasions, a dance that inspires deep devotion from its followers – a …
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