Monday, June 6, 2016
The mould-breaking dance company is celebrating its ninth decade. We trace the nimble steps that took it from a raggle-taggle bunch of students to global nameMarie Rambert had no idea she wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05AMFriday, June 3, 2016
No Body | The Merchants Of Bollywood | Fagin’s TwistThe creators of this event – Lucy Carter, Michael Hulls and Nitin Sawhney – have all worked extensively in choreography. Yet here th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMThursday, June 2, 2016
He has composed for films, TV series and orchestras. But his latest project – which sprawls out over three floors of Sadler’s Wells – could be his most ambitious yetNitin Sawhney has a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:58AMSadler’s Wells, LondonDespite some rich choreography, this dark and intimate reworking of the classic tale fails to deliver on its initial promiseMats Ek has always taken a radical line wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50AMWednesday, June 1, 2016
Sadlers Wells, LondonJonathon Young and Crystal Pite collaborate to turn a traumatising experience into riveting drama and virtuosic danceIn 2009, Jonathon Young’s teenage daughter died wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
The idea of costume as a transformative tool, on and off stage, was adopted before pop was born, as a book and a new exhibition illustrateLoie Fuller had only a modest talent as an actor and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28PMSunday, May 29, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonMcGregor’s all-male Obsidian Tear, one of his strongest works to date, contrasts with brutal Kenneth MacMillan, plus superbly performed Christopher WheeldonAs Wayn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, May 27, 2016
Betroffenheit | Royal Ballet: Mixed Bill | Balletboyz: LifeThis collaboration between choreographer Crystal Pite and director Jonathon Young explores dark themes including grief, trauma and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMMonday, May 23, 2016
A festival at Siobhan Davies dance studio featured Julie Cunningham’s moves to match Tempest’s verse and Jamie Atherton’s solo for Fred HerkoAt the Siobhan Davies dance studios this we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMFriday, May 20, 2016
Cast, DoncasterCathy Marston displays a novelist’s touch in layering characters in her wonderfully choreographed show for Northern BalletEarly reviewers of Jane Eyre complained that Charlo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMNorthern Ballet: 1984 | What Remains… Anatomy Of An Artist | International Dance Festival BirminghamJonathan Watkins is making a name for himself with adaptations of literary works. Follow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe junior wing of Nederlands Dans Theater have poise, speed and accuracy: if only the programme stretched them as much as they stretch themselvesIt’s pretty much a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, May 13, 2016
Jane Eyre | Fagin’s Twist | Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Cathy Marston’s new work extracts the radical and romantic heart from the Charlotte Brontë classic for Northern Ballet, with a scor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMThursday, May 12, 2016
Ahead of her new work, which is based on a profound real-life tragedy, the sought-after choreographer discusses dancing with William Forysthe, motherhood and why there are so few women at th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonLucy Guerin returns to Shakespeare’s tragedy, Shobana Jeyasingh’s Terra Incognita looks even better than before and Itzik Galili’s A Linha Curva is a carnivales…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
Edward Watson calls himself a 'ginger freak'. But to everyone else, he is the Royal Ballet's hottest new star. Judith Mackrell meets him on the eve of his biggest role yetIt was Edward Watso…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:10AMSunday, May 8, 2016
He’s the bad boy of ballet, she’s the Royal’s Russian superstar. Natalia Osipova and Sergei Polunin talk about fear, pain and falling in love on the dance floor “I’d heard about h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMFriday, May 6, 2016
Charles Linehan Company | Rambert | New ShootsDance at the Brighton festival opens with this double bill, featuring a duet for original BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt that riffs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMSadler’s Wells and Dance Umbrella have announced their autumn seasons and here are the highlights, including naked duets, ordinary Londoners and PinocchioContemporary dance audiences have …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMThursday, May 5, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonMcRae is superb as the Creature at the centre of Liam Scarlett’s ambitious production, but surgery is needed to bring his strange story to the foreFor Liam Scarlet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMMonday, May 2, 2016
Power couple Osipova and Polunin burn up the stage, the Windsors do Swan Lake, Jane Eyre becomes a Brontë ballet, and Pinocchio shows what it’s like to be humanCathy Marston’s new balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:56AMSunday, May 1, 2016
Last week a Bolshoi dancer confessed to ordering a vicious attack on the company's director. His colleagues aren't convinced. Judith Mackrell reports from St Petersburg on the in-fighting an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Breakin’ Convention | Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Of Taiwan: Songs Of The Wanderers | The Royal Ballet: FrankensteinThe UK’s leading hip-hop theatre festival returns. Hosted, as always, by …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMFriday, April 22, 2016
Scottish Dance Theatre | The Winter’s Tale | May Contain FoodThe international flair of Scotland’s leading modern dance company is highlighted again in this double bill, with the surreal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMThe Place, LondonFoodie culture is carved up gloriously in this lip-smacking fusion of song, dance, mime and sweet aperitif tomatoesIt’s best not to eat before you go to see Protein’s la…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMThursday, April 21, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe fur flies – and hops, skips and pirouettes – in an inspired and funny programme by Pontus Lidberg and Javier De FrutosWilliam Trevitt and Michael Nunn have bo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Theatre Royal, GlasgowScottish Ballet’s daring new interpretation boots out the main characters – leaving just a moody boy and a magical womanAmong the legions of choreographers who’ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMMonday, April 18, 2016
A ballerina who accused La Scala of promoting anorexia has been sacked. There's more to this weighty issue than meets the eye, says Judith MackrellIn recent weeks, it seems that ballet has b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:28PMFriday, April 15, 2016
BalletBoyz - Life | Scottish Ballet: Swan Lake | The Rebel Man Standard The always inventive, always entertaining male company explores the tension between life and death in a double bill, c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMThursday, April 14, 2016
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA programme of three ballets by three women choreographers is a campaigning first. The results are far from traditional – and far from consistentEnglish National Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonThis revival of Christopher Wheeldon’s ballet looks more impressive than on its 2014 debut, with its original cast returning for the openingWhen Kevin O’Hare bec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:08AM 
