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Victoria multistorey car park, Leeds Amanda Piña’s dance inspired from the Mexican border town of Matamoros filled the perfunctory setting with pulsating beats and tinsel-clad movement Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM180 Studios, LondonIvan Michael Blackstock’s interrogation of stereotypes is broodingly atmospheric, strewn with imagery and often highly effective How to show stereotypes of black masculi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMSadler’s Wells, LondonOne French choreographer whistles during his dance in Somnole, while another takes us into a dark, murderous forest in This Is How You Will Disappear Whistle while yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSadler’s Wells, LondonWhile Andreou clearly pursues a path and a purpose with her 2018 work, Rizzo’s directionless fantasy world is a rambling trip Minimalism has many guises. If the ope…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSadler’s Wells, LondonA terrifically varied programme began by pairing daring new work from Brigel Gjoka and Rauf Yasit with Lucinda Childs’ iconic 1979 Dance The astonishingly rich prog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMThe Place, LondonBlack-clad extras loom and the sound booms as impressive dancers look to illuminate the pyschologist’s theories of humanity’s secret faces Company Chameleon’s The Shad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonThe 13-strong cast dive with gusto into the gap between seeing and looking, us and them, and you and me “What do you see when you look at me?” chant The Pappy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMColiseum, LondonEven if the drama disappoints in parts, the music and dancing in Tamara Rojo’s brave, inventive take on the 19th-century, will-she-won’t-she love story is a delight It’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMSadler’s Wells Theatre, LondonThe choreographer draws on his own experiences to create a powerful evocation of alienation, oppression and memory Depression is more than just dark, or down:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMLinbury theatre, LondonYolande Yorke-Edgell and company join the dots between the founder-mother of American modern dance Martha Graham and the late Robert Cohan Programmes by Yorke Dance Pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMLinbury theatre, LondonWill Tuckett makes visual poetry of love, war and the work of Adrienne Rich, while Mthuthuzeli November journeys to a glitter-coated land of showtime What kinds of tim…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMThe creator of the show Samskara on how race, masculinity, psychology and emotion have shaped his work for stage and screen – and why he never wants to be put in a box Who is Lanre Malaolu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMSadler’s Wells, LondonFascinating in its form, enigmatic in its meaning, this double bill is full of delights As a company of variously abled and disabled dancers, Candoco generally presen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PMGulbenkian theatre, CanterburyActions speak louder than words as a talented cast take a guided tour of our most intimate relations Didy Veldman’s @Home grew around the idea of being “at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonSome 70 dancers reacquaint audiences with the BAC building in a sumptuous feast from James Cousins Company Though it features some 70 dancers, James Cousins’ W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMThe Place theatre, LondonThe Korean choreographer’s all-female re-working of this 2019 piece builds patterns and variations to an ecstatic finale Sung Im Her’s W.A.Y is a “re-work” �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PMSadler’s Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter presents two contrasting pieces: Clowns, which lambasts our seeming indifference to violence, and a tender antidote called The Fix The ringmaster tryi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMBirmingham HippodromeTaking elements of contemporary, hip-hop, classical Indian and streetdance, Rosie Kay’s version of Shakespeare has a clamour of activity and ideas This autumn brings …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMMilton Keynes international festivalInspired by formal portrait photography of black Victorian Britons, Jeanefer Jean-Charles’s sensual dance work restores life and humanity to its forgott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMLowry, SalfordThree androgynous, silver-clad dancers loop and glide through a retrofuturist sealed set in Requardt and Rosenberg’s spaced-out touring production Shows that are distributed …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMBirmingham Repertory theatre The choreographer returns to the stage with a superb new work, Adult Female Dancer, part of a compelling evening of three solos Absolute Solo II is a sequel – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMRussell Maliphant places movement front and centre of A Christmas Carol and dance is also boosting screen successes like Lovers Rock and Giri/Haji Dance and cinema have a common source. The …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMAvailable onlineJawole Willa Jo Zollar’s three-decade-old piece on homelessness takes on potent new meaning during Covid crisis The best theatre and dance to watch online Some dances seem …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMIn Hoppla!, Achterland and Mitten, the Belgian dance legend manages a dynamic mix of composition and choreography The Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker has always been engross…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18PMAvailable onlineFrauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver reprise their brave, surreal 2019 show for the coronavirus age In autumn 2019, the married couple Frauke Requardt and Daniel Oliver toured a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMDancers are taking tentative steps back to work, giving socially distanced performances outdoors in Germany, France and the Czech Republic Tamas Detrich, director of Germany’s Stuttgart Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThis is a moment of movement: as people gather to push for change, collective dancing has become activism in motion The protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd have spread across the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMGrand theatre, LeedsThis lavish production uses cinematic design to chilling effect and terrific choreography to drive the drama Kenneth Tindall’s Geisha for Northern Ballet echoes the arc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMSadler’s Wells, LondonChoreographer Crystal Pite and theatre-maker Jonathon Young combine their worlds for a riveting piece Actors speak, dancers move. In Revisor, choreographer Crystal Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMBarbican, LondonSweeping nostalgia meets occult menace in this three-part homage to dance pioneer Isadora Duncan Isadora Duncan was a founding figure of modern dance. Replacing ballet’s po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMLeeds PlayhousePhoenix Dance Theatre’s new piece contains flashes of anguished brilliance but feels cut off from its subject matter In 2018, Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Windrush premiered ju…
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