Coliseum, 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 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMColiseum, LondonRecently, Carlos Acosta has been branching out from ballet superstardom. Last year he presented Premieres, a rather misjudged programme of short modern ballets for himself an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMBarbican, LondonThe Brisbane-based Circa troupe was founded in 1987, but its current identity comes courtesy of director Yaron Lifschitz, who took over in 2004. A trained theatre director wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMSadler's Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter rocks. No, really. The Israeli-born choreographer and composer was once in a rock group – and in Political Mother, more than any other piece, it shows…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMFrom Hollywood musicals to a Pink Floyd ballet, Roland Petit's choreography raised the bar – and hemlines – of dance for everTwo enduring loves span the life of French choreographer Rola…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMLinbury Studio Theatre, LondonThere's a revolving-door feel to Cocteau Voices, a double bill of dance and opera that spins around the same themes – desire, absence, delusion – from two c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMO2 Arena, London"Ballet rocks!" is a phrase increasingly bandied about by enthusiastic dance fans. Ballet has indeed been bursting its opera-house laces, with high-profile appearances in a K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMSadler's Wells, LondonYou don't look for coherence in the works of Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara, you go to experience them. Mirror and Music (2009) is characteristic: a loose-kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMChoreographer and performer whose troupe dance along the edge of physical expression, forging a sensory style all their ownIn shortHis company's name means "crow", but Saburo Teshigawara is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:59AMA pillar of modern choreography, the US octogenarian once turned George W Bush's walk into a danceIn short Although neither a pioneer nor a radical of American modern dance, Paul Taylor is s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMSadler's Wells, LondonThey make an improbable pair – María Pagés an earthy flamenco dancer, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui a contemporary dancer, as supple as a sapling. But they have one gift in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMThis Dutch choreographer's distinctive personal style mixes formal austerity and glassy elegance with erotic chargeIn shortDutch choreographer Hans van Manen has been called the Mondrian of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:22AMSadler's Wells, LondonFor one weekend each spring, Sadler's Wells is transformed. Its foyers throb with sound and throng with young people, and on every floor you come across eager displays …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:05PMIt Needs Horses should never have galloped away with the audience vote, still less the UK's biggest choreography prize. Maybe it's time for AV?So there I was the other night, at the finals o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonIt's 20 years since choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh founded her own company. Introducing a special anniversary programme, Southbank Centre head Jude Kelly rightly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:35PMSadler's Wells, London★★/★★★★A season of four early works by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has shown that right from the beginning she was a tenaciously single-minded choreogra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMThe Place, LondonAn intrepid and spirited company, Scottish Dance Theatre has regularly commissioned choreographers previously unknown in the UK; their current double bill is by two new Amer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15PMThe Place, LondonBawren Tavaziva's Double Take came with a prologue: local schoolchildren performing scenes they had developed in workshops. This warm-up act pointed up the strengths and wea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMJavier de Frutos revels in the raw and the provocative but his new collaboration with Pet Shop Boys is for the familyIn shortA maverick, an iconoclast and a heretic, Javier de Frutos is an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:17AMWhitechapel Gallery, LondonThe Whitechapel Gallery invited three very different sets of dance artists to "animate" Shadow Spans, their long-standing gallery installation by Claire Barclay. F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMArts Depot, LondonMichael Nunn and William Trevitt, aka the Balletboyz, have always been media-savvy. Having stopped dancing, they have ditched their cheeky double act, recruited nine young …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMA crossover pioneer, this American choreographer melds classical ballet with modern, jazz, ballroom and even aerobics in an energetic mix that impresses, if not always endearsIn shortTwyla T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AMNottingham ArenaStrictly Come Dancing Live is exactly as described: the television show performed on stage. Celebrities from the 2010 season, plus old-timers Ricky Whittle and Colin Jackson,…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PMWe've heard lots about Natalie Portman's travails as a fictional prima ballerina in Darren Aronofsky's film, but she's just the latest in a long line of doomed cinematic dancersWARNING: cont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMColiseum, LondonRudolf Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet – restaged by English National Ballet, the company for which it was first created in 1977 – reads like a cross between Shakes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMYvonne Rainer and her works are uncompromising, challenging and highly influential. But she won't be guesting on X FactorIn shortAn artist who is anti-art, an activist who is also an aesthet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMLinbury Studio, LondonFirst shown as a studio performance in summer 2008, William Tuckett's Faeries has been revised as a Christmas children's show for the stage, with some key changes: it's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:31PMBill T Jones has spent his dance career making the personal political provoking both acclaim and controversy along the way Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42AMA founding father of Britain's modern dance movement, this American disciple of Martha Graham was famed for his expressionistic style ... not to mention his silver platform shoes Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMExperimenting with film, theatre and music from Bach to Baez, this natural born choreographer holds her audiences captive, writes Sanjoy Roy Continue reading...
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