Sunday, January 22, 2023
Royal Opera House, LondonIt’s unapologetically retro, and there’s no story, but the Royal Ballet’s latest revival of Petipa’s intricate masterpiece casts its spell
When choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSunday, December 18, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonDanced with vigour and detail, Bourne’s ingenious fairytale fix is brought bang up to date in this 10th anniversary revival
Amid all the pink, sparkly tinsel of num…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, December 17, 2022
Past and present entwined in a sparkling postmodern revival, plus a sensational take on Stravinsky and Crystal Pite’s sublime dance of life
Read the Observer critics’ review of 2022 in f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMSunday, December 11, 2022
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonBen Duke’s retelling of the Medea myth may not have the trappings of Christmas cheer, but its inventive wit brings real delight
Well, hats off to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMSunday, December 4, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe flamenco star reinvents Stravinsky’s 1913 ballet in a stunning solo show that seems to take over his entire body
Israel Galván slinks on to the stage from the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMSunday, November 20, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonWorld premieres, old favourites and a ballet legend in the house make for a memorable gala evening
Ballet loves an event, an opportunity to pull out the posh frocks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMMonday, November 14, 2022
The actor and environmentalist on playing Atticus Finch, the character’s importance today, and why he dyed his hair white for Stranger Things
Actor Matthew Modine, born in California in 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMSunday, November 13, 2022
Two South African brothers have spent seven years developing a musical about Nelson Mandela’s younger, radical years. His family are supportive, but political musicals are high risk… We …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMSaturday, November 12, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMats Ek’s riveting new Rite of Spring for the #MeToo era is the centrepiece of the company’s last triple bill under its transformative artistic director
This was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMSunday, November 6, 2022
Sadler’s Wells; Linbury Studio theatre, Royal Opera House Inspired by Munch paintings and infused with hip-hop, two invigorating triple bills by Royal Ballet alumni are a riot of styles an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMSunday, October 30, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonImbuing the balletic grace of her dancer’s movements with tension and anxiety, Doherty asks a refreshing yet unsettling question: what’s the point of dance?
An a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMSunday, October 23, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Canadian choreographer has turned 2017’s acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work that brims with massed energy and profound humanity
Crystal Pite is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, October 16, 2022
The online programme of the forward-facing London festival boasts thoughtful and varied work by Calixto Neto, Abby Zbikowski and more
Dance Umbrella, London’s celebration of cutting-edge d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan’s bleak psychological period piece is a gift for the Royal Ballet’s dancers, who take turns in performances of gripping, in-the-moment power
Wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, October 2, 2022
Birmingham Hippodrome, and touringRambert’s dancers bring style, but can’t provide substance, to this somewhat inert adaptation of the hit TV crime series
I watched every second of all s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMSunday, September 25, 2022
The founder of ZooNation on how the company – about to celebrate its 20th anniversary – helped to bring hip-hop dance into the mainstream
The choreographer, director and writer Kate Prin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMSunday, September 18, 2022
Coliseum, LondonIn borrowed costumes, this company exiled by war inhabit Alexei Ratmansky’s take on the 19th-century classic
High emotion inevitably surrounded this production of Giselle …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, September 11, 2022
Sadler’s Wells; Theatre Royal Drury Lane, LondonAnne Teresa de Keersmaeker creates a revelatory response to Bach, while a gala celebrating the dance legend is full of bravura dancing
A wee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, August 21, 2022
Ustinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathBrandstrup’s superbly danced reimagining of the Minotaur myth is paired with mezzo Christine Rice’s impassioned Phaedra in Britten’s cantata
As a youn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSunday, August 14, 2022
King’s Theatre; Pleasance at EICC, EdinburghThe actor makes his dance debut in a visually stunning yet curiously empty life of the poet. But every move counts in the Freedom Ballet of Ukra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMSunday, July 31, 2022
Teatro alle Tese, VeniceSilver Lion winner Rocío Molina unleashes raw energy, while Golden Lion winner Saburo Teshigawara turns his gaze inward, at Wayne McGregor’s Venice Dance Biennale
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, July 30, 2022
Alan Cumming has worked with Stanley Kubrick and the Spice Girls – now he’s starring in a dance show about Scotland’s most famous poet. He talks to Sarah Crompton about male desire, wh…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:07AMSunday, July 10, 2022
Arts Depot, London; and touringThe young dancers nurtured by Hofesh Shechter rise to the challenge of his teasing 2019 work with irresistible confidence
In the history of British dance, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37AMSunday, July 3, 2022
La Scala, MilanIn its world premiere performance, McGregor makes Les Noces his own, while the extraordinary Alessandra Ferri stars in his 2018 take on The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky argu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, June 26, 2022
Internationaal Theater AmsterdamThe American dance-maker brings the audience to tears with a highly textured ritual of remembrance for a dying person
You always remember the moment when a ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, June 19, 2022
Royal Albert Hall; Royal Opera House, LondonMatthew Bourne and Christopher Wheeldon bring Broadway dazzle and cinematic power to their adaptations of Bizet’s Carmen and Laura Esquivel’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSunday, June 12, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA Covid-dogged company of African dancers triumph in an unbearable yet riveting revival of Pina Bausch’s take on Stravinsky
In Lynn Garafola’s outstanding new bio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMSunday, June 5, 2022
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe Royal Ballet star electrifies in Didy Veldman’s tricksy new reworking of a ubiquitous classic
Natalia Osipova is such a particular talent. The force of her …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMSunday, May 29, 2022
Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, BrightonCharlotte Spencer’s examination of memory and the body is strongest when it focuses on specifics
For the past 10 years, the choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, May 22, 2022
The ‘Shameless’ star talks to Sarah Crompton about the cost of living crisis, motherhood, Botox and her new play, ‘The House of Shades’
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:12PMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe mysterious, melancholy Cerberus is the centrepiece of a triple bill worthy of the company’s superb dancers
Sadler’s Wells was sparsely populated for the Londo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AM 
