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Leeds 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24AMTobacco Factory, BristolMark Bruce’s latest work is sensationally stimulating but perilously dizzying and hard to stomach Mark Bruce is a fascinating, highly distinctive choreographer, his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PMBarbican, LondonThis third part of Peeping Tom’s trilogy surreally explores the innocence and danger of childhood, but it’s definitely not for kids Having already graced the London inter…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSouthbank Centre, LondonThis devised drama about relationships between young men moves from grim violence to understanding Physical theatre company The PappyShow devises its material through…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMGreen Dragon hotel, Hereford2Faced Dance put on a reality-busting promenade performance featuring parkour, slapstick and a sit-down dinner ‘Come along, chop-chop!” say our minders, rathe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMA snogtastic Romeo and Juliet from Matthew Bourne and an international dance-a-thon celebrating Merce Cunningham join a mixed troupe of winners More on the best culture of 2019 Continue read…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMJerwood DanceHouse, IpswichPita’s adaptation of Mick Jackson’s splendigly lugubrious children’s book mixes mime, acting, song and dance to pleasingly twisted effect If you like a happy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe Temple of Fine Arts explode with energy and Nahid Siddiqui captivates with her lightness and gravity Initially a showcase for Indian classical music, since 2017 t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMBarbican, LondonRhythms ricochet around an imaginary cell as the hip-hop partnership return with a darker, depression-themed piece In 2017, Boy Blue – the hip-hop partnership founded in 20…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMBirmingham Hippodrome Three dancers explore the harmony between music and movement in a show that flirts with parody as it unleashes joy ‘Don’t Mickey Mouse!” It’s one of the most ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMRoyal Exchange theatre, ManchesterPhelim McDermott’s sublime collage of theatrical fragments is the fantastical, tearjerking fruition of a lifelong dream In his youth, the actor and direct…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18AMThe Dancehouse, ManchesterCat on a Hot Tin Roof with voguing sounds interesting, but Trajal Harrell’s parade of dancers modelling soft-furnishings to free jazz is more vague than vogue Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMDancers, actors and digital animation combine for a spectacle in an old railway depot, while Alphabus flexes its muscles at Manchester international festival The dance strand of the Manchest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThree dances with differing tones and temperament, including Jessica Lang’s Lyric Pieces and Ruth Brill’s Peter and the Wolf, make for an ambiguous show As a titl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMPalladium, London Ballet and B-movies collide as Sergei Polunin revives Russian villain Rasputin, suffers with Nijinsky, and tackles toxic masculinity with a pineapple Once famous only withi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMQueen Elizabeth Hall, London Performers scurry across the stage in Deborah Colker’s inventive but scattershot show about the people of the Capibaribe River Brazilian choreographer Deborah…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMGulbenkian theatre, CanterburyFour performers deftly bring the Saint-Exupéry story down to earth in Luca Silvestrini’s comic production In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic children�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMSadler’s Wells, LondonRooted in traditional Greek dancing, the choreography only blooms when it ditches folky footwork for more elastic moves The Thread has the hallmarks of a particular k…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMGrand theatre, LeedsCathy Marston’s new ballet about Queen Victoria and her daughter Beatrice is outstandingly choreographed, cinematically scored and danced with nuance Reading is a profo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMDanceEast, IpswichThe dramatic aerial swimming and plaintive soundtrack of Cousins’s celebrated 2012 work Within Her Eyes is revived for this intriguing programme of duetsWithin Her Eyes, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSuspiria leads a crop of new films that track a dance troupe along a path of mounting horror. It’s no surprise – dance has age-old links to dread, delusion and deathIs dance-horror a thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMImperial War Museum North, ManchesterA dance work about the world flu pandemic that killed millions at the end of the first world war suggests a humanity invadedShobana Jeyasingh’s Contagi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMManchester Opera HouseThe story of an ill-treated 18th-century convent girl is troubling, but English National Ballet perform Kenneth MacMillan’s version with breathtaking virtuosityThe op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSadler’s Wells, LondonThis sublime show features breakdancing, birdsong and a duet that is an insight into the secrets of choreography itselfThey say it’s the quiet ones you have to watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMThe Place, LondonDesigned to be playable anywhere from local theatres to village halls, Ben Wright’s choreographed play has small resources but creates a big worldThere’s a lot to be sai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMThe Peacock, LondonIn their much-loved version, the company subtly point out ballet’s constraints on female dancers while preserving the magic of the storyFounded in 1974 and still going s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMUndisclosed location, Salford Young performers deliver snapshots capturing the challenges and impacts of male behaviour in a fresh and brashly comic devised showThe venue for Oh Man – an h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMThe omnivorous and eclectic choreographer who has died aged 88, represented the last of a historic line In the world of dance, the death of choreographer Paul Taylor marks not only the end o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThis energetic, Cuban-ified version of Carmen Jones whizzes by, ricocheting from comedy to melodrama, intimacy to dancing crowdsCarmen La Cubana is a 2016 Cuban makeo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMTower of London The Israeli choreographer led youth groups in an exhilarating open-air performance to celebrate the gory, glorious history of the city’s East EndIt sounds like a sterling i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMGreenwich and Docklands international festival, Canary WharfFrom Joe Garbett’s playful table-tennis mashup to Gandini Juggling’s deadpan duet, dance acts thrived in the open airOpen-air …
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