Friday, April 7, 2017
The rising dance star on the exchange of ideas in her collaboration with Richard Alston, kathak’s rhythm and grace, and meditating before rehearsalReaching the final of the BBC Young Dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMMonday, June 27, 2016
From trying out the trapeze to finding his own moral compass, the actor on the challenges of playing Shakespeare’s flawed king in the RSC’s history cycle My older brother died when I was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMMonday, May 23, 2016
The Good Wife’s star recalls how appearing in Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female Julius Caesar gave her the confidence to write her own playI often use male speeches in my warm-ups before going…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
In the last of our dancers’ diaries, the flamenco legend says the genre is not about technique but emotion – above all, it must come from the heartFor almost 20 years, I have maintained …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMMonday, February 1, 2016
The director recalls her 1994 Talawa production of the tragedy, in which 39-year-old Ben Thomas was cast as a last-minute king after Norman Beaton fell illI am a Shakespeare freak. It’s ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:04AMWednesday, January 27, 2016
‘Images and ideas land in the mind,’ says theatre designer Tom Scutt. ‘Sometimes an image is hard to shake, and the job is to work out why it’s there.’ Images like the myriad white…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
When the 16-year-old South African was told he was too short to become a principal dancer, it motivated him to prove himself. He talks medals, 6am starts and two-minute napsBallet came to me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16AMMonday, January 25, 2016
For director Paula Garfield, translating Love’s Labour’s Lost into British Sign Language was a tall order, right down to the title. But her Globe production made magic from the metaphors…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMTuesday, January 19, 2016
Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Fernando Suels Mendoza on what he learned from the great German choreographer – and how it feels to perform her worksToday we had a rehearsal for Pina Bausch’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AMTuesday, January 12, 2016
The rising dance star on the exchange of ideas in her collaboration with Richard Alston, kathak’s rhythm and grace, and meditating before rehearsalReaching the final of the BBC Young Dance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Billy Warren, currently appearing with Duncan James and Joe Pasquale in Aladdin at Southampton’s Mayflower theatre, tells us what it’s like doing two challenging performances every dayWe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:30AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Jemima Rose Dean, a cast member of ‘full-on’ stage show The Wyld, talks about dancing in sparkly high heels, BMX bike stunts and her canine co-starsThe Wyld, our show at the Friedrichsta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMTuesday, November 24, 2015
What’s it like to perform in a razzle-dazzle New York musical? Exhilarating and exhausting, says the tap-dancing, high-kicking star of Dames at SeaPerforming in a musical is demanding – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:08AMTuesday, November 17, 2015
The rider Herwig Radnetter is partnered with a Lipizzaner stallion in the Spanish Riding School’s majestic shows, which demand discipline, balance and the shiniest shoesThe Spanish Riding …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:27AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Our series on dancers’ lives continues with Isabelle Van Den Bergh’s day at the Parisian theatre, from a can-can warm-up to shows that require 10 costumes eachOur theatre is full of pain…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
In the first of a new series exploring dancers’ lives, Xander Parish of the Mariinsky Ballet gets into the role of Romeo, explains how to be the perfect partner and considers his hectic sc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:20AM 
