Friday, February 10, 2017
From a full-blooded reimagination of Shakespeare to the best of a celebrated choreographer. Plus: Eurohouse, Joan, BU21 and more1 Richard IIIDavid Hare may be up in arms about the European i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:31AMMonday, February 6, 2017
The US prodigy, celebrated for his speed, grace and spectacularly witty performances, is among the winners at the National Dance awardsClassical ballet is notoriously an art form that impose…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonThere's no doubting the love that many British ballet fans feel for the Bolshoi, nor their sympathy for the company's recent trials. But in spite of such loyal enthu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18PMFriday, February 3, 2017
From Stephen Daldry’s ground-breaking production to a visceral take on the welfare crisis. Plus: Worst Wedding Ever, Material Men Redux and more1 An Inspector CallsThat inspector keeps on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMSunday, January 29, 2017
Lippy, brash and unshaven, the Ballet Boyz were a dance phenomenon. Now, as they enter their 40s, they're launching their boldest venture yetMichael Nunn has just made an unsettling discover…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32PMBarbican theatre, LondonWith eight Royal Ballet dancers enacting the claustrophobic world of an incestuous couple, De Frutos weaves intricate physical poetry around Jean Cocteau’s text and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMFriday, January 27, 2017
A remarkable look at the Beslan school tragedy and a homage by Wayne McGregor to Virginia Woolf. Plus: The Glass Menagerie, Letters To Windsor House, Love, Travesties, Sampled and Cinderella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMMonday, January 23, 2017
The choreographer’s latest project explores the ‘intelligent body’, as her audience follow their own path through the Barbican’s Curve galleryWhen does a simple movement become a ges…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMSaturday, January 21, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonWayne McGregor’s triptych based on Virginia Woolf’s life and writings is a haunting meditation on memory, madness and timeWayne McGregor doesn’t flinch from ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMAhead of the Royal Ballet’s new production of Philip Glass’s dance opera, based on the poetic French novel, choreographer Javier De Frutos and his principal dancers talk incest, jealousy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMFriday, January 20, 2017
Caryl Churchill’s drama confounds expectations, while Javier De Frutos directs Philip Glass’s opera. Plus: Hedda Gabler, Pink Mist and Richard Alston Dance1 Escaped AloneAs ever, the bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:04AMSunday, January 15, 2017
Wayne McGregor is one of the world's busiest choreographers. He's also into neuroscience, Antarctica – and walking his dog on a remote African island.In the opening and closing moments of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMFriday, January 13, 2017
Yasmina Reza’s hit play returns, while interdisciplinary art is celebrated. Plus: Mamma Mia!, In a Pickle, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus, Russian State Ballet Of Siberia and Blak Whyte G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSaturday, January 7, 2017
Carlos Acosta’s Cuban company comes to the UK, Javier de Frutos assembles a dream cast for Philip Glass’s dance opera and Shobana Jeyasingh explores the Indian diaspora … the best danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMFriday, January 6, 2017
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen’s girl band musical, plus The Witches, Wish List, The Snow Queen, The Little Match Girl And Other Happier Tales, Fall Out, Giselle and Resolution 2017It’s been…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMSunday, January 1, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonBourne’s imagination thrives where others fail and his reinventions – a puppet Aurora, battling suitors and homages to Petipa – transform fairytale into dramaBa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSunday, December 18, 2016
Scandal rocked the Bolshoi this year when its artistic director had acid thrown in his face. Nikolai Tsiskaridze, the troupe's recently sacked principal dancer, tells Judith Mackrell why he …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMThursday, December 15, 2016
Isadora Duncan's half-naked, nymph-like movements changed the nature of ballet - and anticipated modern choreography. Judith Mackrell celebrates her influenceWhen Frederick Ashton choreograp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMWednesday, December 14, 2016
Jane Eyre duetted with Rochester, Akram Khan imagined a refugee Giselle and Jonathon Young battled his demons in a nightmare cabaret. Our critic picks this year’s best danceIt was a tribut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18AMSunday, December 11, 2016
As the Guardian prepares to stream a classic performance of Tchaikovsky's glittering masterpiece, we explore what makes this the world's favourite ballet – and pick out a few favourite pro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54AMFriday, December 9, 2016
Trouble In Mind | Beasty Baby | Shakespeare Trilogy | School Of Rock | The Tempest | Romeo And Juliet | The Nutcracker | Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes1 Trouble In MindTanya Moodie turns i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMThursday, December 8, 2016
At 22, Hayward is already being fast-tracked into principal roles and is one of the Royal Ballet’s most promising talentsAct II of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon takes place in a high-class b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PMFriday, December 2, 2016
Strictly Ballroom | Bollywood Jack | Sweet Charity | Peter Pan | Cinderella | Annie Get Your Gun | Saint Joan | Simon Callow | The Siege Of Christmas | Black Beauty | The Nutcracker | The Wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMMonday, November 28, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan’s version of the classic ballet, told with Irish-Nordic folk music, builds to an unexpected moment of raptureMichael Keegan-Dolan has deep chor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMFriday, November 25, 2016
Dead Funny | Amadeus | An Inspector Calls | What I Learned From Johnny Bevan | Cinderella: A Fairytale | National Ballet Of China | Michael Keegan-Dolan: Swan Lake | Loch na hEala | The Nutc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonCloud Gate Dance Theatre’s younger sibling moves with a vehement, contemporary edge, but some of their concepts are desperately overworkedCloud Gate 2 was formed in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMMonday, November 21, 2016
It was one of this winter’s hottest tickets but has been cancelled after one performance. The choreographer describes the heartbreak behind the scenes Of all the many Nutcrackers competing…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMHe has aped superheroes, written over himself in henna and based a performance around his moustache. Now, accidental dancer Hetain Patel has imagined a post-presidential rampageWhen he was g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48AMFriday, November 18, 2016
Matilda The Musical | World Without Us | One Night In Miami… | Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Parts I & II | King Lear | Cloud Gate 2 | The Red Shoes | Hetain PatelIt takes years to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMTuesday, November 15, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonForty three dancers are complemented by orchestra, choir and soloists in an ambitious and highly energetic production of Haydn’s oratorio Mark Baldwin has always be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMSunday, November 13, 2016
Walk among pirouetting dancers or get drawn into the world of a breakdancing wolf this seasonMatthew Bourne’s latest production promises to be more Powell and Pressburger than Hans Christi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AM 
