Sunday, 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 04:54AMThe ‘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 02:24AMSunday, May 15, 2022
Sadlers’s Wells, LondonFear and intimidation play out in the Matsena brothers’ raw, impassioned new work, while Julia Cheng’s female warriors strike a pose
Julia Cheng’s choreography…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMSunday, May 8, 2022
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonDan Daw explores bodies, power and submission in a show that is intense, tender and comes complete with trigger warning…
I was feeling quite calm about seeing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMThursday, May 5, 2022
The New York theatre director and actors Arthur Darvill, Anoushka Lucas and Patrick Vaill talk to Sarah Crompton about turning the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic into the most challenging v…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:18AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Royal Opera House, LondonIn a showcase of works from across their founding choreographer’s career, the Royal Ballet prove their mastery of his technical and dramatic complexity
Mikhail Bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, April 24, 2022
Richmond theatre, London; and touringXie Xin and Maxine Doyle call the shots in a double bill of great flow and swagger
One quality that has sustained BalletBoyz, the company founded by the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonAnne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s tribute to five inspirational Rosas captivates – until it outstays its welcome
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is not a choreographer who …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, April 10, 2022
Sadler’s Wells; 180 Studios, LondonWilliam Forsythe delivers a dazzling fusion of classical ballet and pop, Ivan Michael Blackstock a bold examination of black masculinity
Dance takes man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:37AMSunday, April 3, 2022
The new play by the Pulitzer-winning writer of Fairview links the story of the pioneering Jamaican nurse in Crimea to female carers across history
Seeing Fairview at the Young Vic in London …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMBarbican; Royal Opera House, LondonThe dancers shone in a double bill to mark 20 years of Casso Pancho’s company, while at Covent Garden Kyle Abraham’s new work was suffused with longing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonDance Reflections festival continued, with offerings from foggy to soporific – but darling of radical dance Boris Charmatz did not disappoint
You need a lot of pati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMSunday, March 20, 2022
Tate Modern; Sadler’s Wells, LondonDance Reflections festival showcases a fresh take on Trisha Brown’s seminal work; while two of its contemporary offerings are frustratingly oblique
It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMSunday, March 13, 2022
The American choreographer on setting classical dance steps to James Blake, his friendship with Nureyev, and why he hugs trees
One of the world’s greatest dance-makers, William Forsythe, 7…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMSadler’s Wells, LondonA Lucinda Childs postmodern gem sparkles anew, while two extraordinary dancers explore what unites people and tears them apart
When George Balanchine created his thre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSaturday, March 12, 2022
The star of ‘The Affair’, ‘Luther’ and ‘His Dark Materials’ talks to Sarah Crompton about personal boundaries, the gender pay gap and why older women are more valued in Europe th…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:42AMSunday, March 6, 2022
Royal Opera House; Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonVadim Muntagirov stars in the late Liam Scarlett’s reworking of a Russian classic. And Mark Bruce’s new work needs less drama, more dance
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Warwick Arts Centre, and touringThis Dickens adaptation is at its most vibrant when it relies on Ben Duke and co’s expressive choreography rather than complex dialogue
“It was the best o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMSunday, February 20, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe magnetic young dancers of NDT2 shapeshift through a demanding triple bill with irresistible ease and assurance
The youngest of the 18 dancers who make up Nederlan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMSaturday, February 12, 2022
Sadler’s Wells, LondonUniversal themes of romance connect a young cast to their 70s revival, while Carlos Acosta stumbles in his casting
There’s a difficult balance in dance between bein…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
The award-winning stage actor gives one of the standout performances in Joel Coen’s film and is about to star on the London stage in ‘The Chairs’. But things might have turned out very…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:06AMSaturday, January 29, 2022
Barbican Pit, LondonRunning the gamut from Edith Sitwell and Twiggy to Rasputin and Elaine Paige, this mixed bill from an extraordinary duo and friends is a delight
Eleanor Perry (Tight) and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMSaturday, January 22, 2022
Coliseum, LondonThe plot’s still a problem but the dancers give their all in the outgoing ENB artistic director’s bold attempt to bring an old classic in from the cold
One of Tamara Rojo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMSaturday, January 15, 2022
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, LondonThis dazzling show recreates the choreographer’s work through the pure geometry of balls, hoops and clubs
As niches go, a work that combines a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMMonday, December 27, 2021
Dancers burst back on to the stage, online performances reached new audiences, and we’ve Zoom to thank for Robert Cohan’s final work
Miranda Sawyer’s best radio and podcasts of 2021
R…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, December 19, 2021
Sadler’s Wells, London; Curzon cinemas, Sky Arts, FreeviewMagic and melancholy combine to glorious effect in Bourne’s Christmas classic. And the BalletBoyz make the Brothers Grimm look d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, December 7, 2021
The Royal Ballet’s phenomenal principal dancer was the fixed star at the heart of an extraordinary year for the company
See the Observer’s faces of 2021 in full
It’s been an oddly frac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMSunday, December 5, 2021
Royal Albert Hall, LondonPolunin and Cojocaru are terrific, but neither is given enough to work with in the UK premiere of Johan Kobborg’s new version
There’s been a lot of water under a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSunday, November 21, 2021
Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, LondonThe extraordinary work of the late choreographer Robert Cohan finds full expression in two heartfelt tribute shows by Yorke Dance Project
When I fir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMSaturday, November 20, 2021
As a new staging of Cabaret starring Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley opens in London, director Rebecca Frecknall and 94-year-old composer John Kander, the only survivor of the original cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AM 
