Sunday, August 11, 2019
Edinburgh Playhouse; Royal Opera House, LondonHelen Pickett’s inspired new reworking of an American classic is a keeper. And the Bolshoi’s comic turns on a collective farm prove irresist…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, July 28, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonYoung hearts ran free in the National Young Dance Company’s thrilling Madhead, but too much was asked of four promising choreographersEnd of term in the dance world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSunday, July 21, 2019
The Dancehouse, ManchesterTrajal Harrell’s thrilling take on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof stands apart at the Manchester international festival – but more is less elsewhere
Sometimes you see a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, June 9, 2019
London Palladium; Royal Opera House; Sadler’s Wells; BarbicanThe Firebird gets a new lease of life, while San Francisco Ballet mixes Björk with Edith Wharton. Plus, a tribute to a top Fel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, May 26, 2019
Barbican Centre, LondonTanowitz’s distinctive choreography, seen for the first time outside the US, is a ravishing interpretation of TS Eliot’s poem
“We shall not cease from exploratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, May 19, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA new work by Marion Motin holds its own alongside two old favourites in this Rambert triple billIt’s a good idea from Rambert’s new leadership team of Helen Shut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03AMSunday, March 31, 2019
Royal Opera House, LondonThe principals lead an emotionally charged reprise of Royal Ballet’s old faithful
At its premiere in 1965, Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet broke new ground:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFrom TV’s ‘Strictly’ to films about Nureyev and Acosta, the art form once dismissed as elitist is everywhere. One dance critic explains why…
It feels like the future,” says the BBC…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 24, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMyth meets modernity in this profound and thrilling collaboration
In the beginning there is a circle of dancers under a golden light, wrapped together like a liquoric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, March 3, 2019
Sadler’s Wells, LondonTanztheater Wuppertal’s magnificent dancers are let down by Alan Lucien Øyen’s stultifying meditation on loss
What was it that made Pina Bausch so special? How d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMThursday, February 14, 2019
Ballerina who helped build a bridge between classical ballet and the contemporary worldElaine McDonald, who has died aged 75, was one of Britain’s most distinctive ballerinas. Her role as …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMSunday, January 20, 2019
Roundhouse, LondonKhan performs in his intensely beautiful take on the Mahabharata for the last timeAkram Khan made Until the Lions to be performed in the magical, circular space of London�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSaturday, January 5, 2019
The dancer on fatherhood and the environment, patriarchy and myth – and the feminine nature of danceBorn in Wimbledon, where his father ran an Indian restaurant, Akram Khan, 44, is one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, December 2, 2018
As Sweat opens in London, the only female dramatist to win two Pulitzers talks about America’s left-behind, her intensive research – and why she’s writing about Michael Jackson nextIt�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMWednesday, November 28, 2018
The queen of the whodunnit has never gone away, but with John Malkovich playing Poirot and two radical stage adaptations, it’s no mystery why a new generation is falling for herThe interio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
He was an explosively powerful dancer whose grace and beauty revolutionised ballet. Has anyone ever leapt higher? As two Nureyev films appear, we remember the impoverished Russian kid who el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSunday, September 9, 2018
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA French hip-hop dance show is elegant and intellectually robust but it never really gets going“This is hip-hop dance theatre at its most curious,” the programme …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
The dance titan has returned to his home country, and classical dance, after years spent reshaping the art form in EuropeAt the age of 68, choreographer William Forsythe finds himself coming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMFriday, October 27, 2017
The actor-director’s latest film, Murder on the Orient Express, boasts a stellar cast, including Branagh himself as Poirot. He discusses magnificent moustaches, moral brooding and the pass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSunday, August 13, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonEven when ballet gets silly, the Mariinsky’s dancers are in a class of their ownThere are two processions in La Bayadère. The most famous is in the scene known as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMSunday, July 30, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonThe British dancer is made a company principal after starring as Prince Siegfried opposite the dazzling Viktoria TereshkinaAt the beginning of the lakeside scene in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMSunday, July 16, 2017
Boris Charmatz’s blistering new work is, he says, like life – a blizzard of unique moves, never repeatedIt’s the idea of dance, the thought behind movement that most fascinates th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
What you go to "42ND Street" for is the endless catalog of catchy songs from "Lullaby of Broadway" to "Shuffle off to Buffalo" and tap routines by RANDY SKINNER so vigorous they make your f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:39PMFriday, March 17, 2017
Vincente Minnelli’s daring MGM musical starred the 17-year-old Leslie Caron, had a staggeringly ambitious ballet sequence and became a surprise Oscar winner. Now it’s become a Tony-winni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSaturday, December 3, 2016
As they prepare to stage Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, Ruth Wilson and director Ivo van Hove discuss a character who is at once tragic heroine and conniving monsterIn the summer of 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThursday, November 10, 2016
The story of Russia’s flagship dance company, from the patronage of the tsars to surveillance by the KGB, mirrors the country’s tempestuous recent historyThis massive survey of the 240-y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMTuesday, October 11, 2016
Forsythe’s 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem – and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:39AMSunday, August 21, 2016
Festival theatre, EdinburghPite’s Emergence works wonders with the hive mind, while Preljoçaj’s MC 14/22 visits male bodies by way of the apostlesEvery ballet company in the world curre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMSaturday, August 13, 2016
Playhouse, EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine to exhausting but euphoric effect“Warning. This performance contains loud music”, rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMSunday, August 7, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonDivine dancing, evocative staging and a sympathetic adaptation make perfect sense of Shakespeare’s difficult playWatching the Bolshoi in Jean-Christophe Maillot’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMSunday, July 31, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonStrutting matadors, fiery señoritas and outstanding soloists show the scandal-hit company at its virtuoso bestWhen I was first learning about ballet as a child I re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AM 
