Monday, February 26, 2018
Celebrating the 200th birthday of Imperial ballet master and choreographer Marius Petipa, there was a wealth of dance talent on display on
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Tales from Star City, written and directed by Dan Dawes, is an earnest one-woman play with bold ambitions. Spanning three decades, it
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Black cats, yellow hats and salt – the superstitions that swirl around flamenco culture form the core of Isabel Bayon’s enjoyably bizarre
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The most famous teenage lovers in Western literature didn’t actually die. At least, not in Lost Dog’s outstanding Juliet and Romeo, a
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With no hip-hop dance-graded syllabus available, where’s best to learn house and krump? Anna Winter finds out how to take street moves
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMarianela Nunez knew she wanted to be a dancer at three years old. Now starring in Giselle and celebrating her 20th year
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A spate of high-profile robot deaths, a mysterious tulip and the machinations of a malevolent teddy bear with gleaming red eyes. Welcome
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April de Angelis’ 1993 play Playhouse Creatures is a witty and poignant backstage drama that explores the moment in history when lustrous-locked
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The Royal Ballet institution has a pretty much sacrosanct relationship with Petipa’s Sleeping Beauty. Sumptuously and symphonically scored by Tchaikovsky, it’s the
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Five New York women, each called Betty Boop, join forces to stage the play-within-a-play from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. In doing so,
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Perhaps unsurprisingly, Hades is located underneath Waterloo station. At least, it is until March, during the run of Chivaree Circus’ immersive show
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Nicole Acquah’s For A Black Girl is a vital and vibrant two-hander that scrutinises racism and sexism, the very existence of which
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There’s nothing comforting about Mother (Moeder), by Gabriela Carrizo and her company Peeping Tom. In this strange and unsettling piece of dance
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This year, the Royal Ballet’s Marianela Nunez celebrates two decades with the company, most of them as principal. Here’s a ballerina at
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Camden People Theatre’s feminist theatre festival Calm Down Dear gets off to a cracking start with Racheal Ofori’s So Many Reasons. It’s
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For all its wit and whimsy, the world of Betes de Foire – Petit Theatre de Gestes, created and performed by Elsa
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Since being founded in Dundee 32 years ago, Scottish Dance Theatre has gained an enviable reputation for its pioneering spirit. As the
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A charming zoologically-inspired circus show, Fauna never descends into twee anthropomorphism in its exploration of animal movement. Initially performed at the Glastonbury
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An evening meal becomes a wordless passive-aggressive ritual for an unhappy couple in Finnish company WHS’s evocative Lahto (“departure”), part of the
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Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth, choreographed in 1965 to Mahler’s revered song cycle, ranks as an early masterpiece. A profound meditation
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This Qdos production of Cinderella strains to show you how big its budget is. Look how lavish and spangly the sets! An appearance
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Writer and director Tom Crowley’s felicitous 21st century adaptation of Great Expectations turns Dickens’ beefy Bildungsroman into two hours of funny, gripping
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La Soiree is an Australian-born variety show with a distinguished provenance. It premiered in London in 2010, having evolved from co-creator Brett
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Greenwich Theatre’s Cinderella is a slick and spirited show with local appeal. The heroine, played with winning directness by Louise Young, lives with
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Theresa Heskins’ Treasure Island is a misguided festive show that’s ended up on the rocks. It’s an odd choice of Christmas fare,
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November is dark and dank; the world is in a state of perpetual crisis. So to watch the Royal Ballet in Sylvia
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Charming children’s dance-theatre show Tidy Up takes aim at anal retentive orderliness with brightly-coloured balloons, confetti and cushions. But it doesn’t simply
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMKyle Abraham’s Pavement is a cri de coeur for black America. Political, painful and cerebral, it’s written in a far-reaching physical language
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It’s important to tell the story of Pussy Riot. It’s entirely laudable to give privileged Western audiences some idea of the systemic
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