Monday, February 19, 2018
Zenaida Yanowsky and Liam Riddick take top dancer prizes, while Lez Brotherston wins outstanding contribution awardWe know that certain stories and certain archetypes have a strong hold on t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonIn Ben Duke and Lost Dog’s smart, wryly subversive and sexy dance-theatre piece, Juliet and Romeo didn’t die in that tomb. Worse … they grew old togetherSh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMMonday, February 12, 2018
Royal Opera House, LondonThe ballerina brings an illusion of spontaneity to the choreography while mining a wealth of emotion from this gothic ghost story’s fantastical plotFrancesca Haywa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMFriday, February 9, 2018
Tanztheater Wuppertal revive their founder’s striking evocation of death, sex and corruption in the eternal cityWhen Pina Bausch’s work was first shown in London in 1982 it changed the w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMTuesday, February 6, 2018
The Caribbeans who answered the call to save postwar Britain sparked a dance explosion. A new show relives those heady daysWhen the Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in 1948, the Trinidadian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PMTuesday, January 16, 2018
From Chanel’s Riviera bathers to Alexander McQueen’s cross-dressing spywear, fashion has pushed dance to dazzling heightsAlexander McQueen always resisted the idea of working for dance. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet’s La Sylphide is limited by one-note performances but Tamara Rojo dazzles in Kenneth MacMillan’s magisterial Song of the Earth With its guileless …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMWednesday, January 3, 2018
Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre will make your heart leap, Pina Bausch’s Roman dream returns to London and the Royal Ballet salute Macmillan and BernsteinPeter Wright’s staging of the Roma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMTuesday, December 26, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonUsing the second world war as a traumatic, ships-in-the-night backdrop is inspired and Bourne’s dancers are once again on top of their game During the four years in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMMonday, December 18, 2017
Sgt Pepper strutted, Boris Charmatz gave us a buttock-scratching beauty and three men became Lady Macbeth – our critic picks the best dance of the year Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
From festive horror-comedy Better Watch Out to Mariah Carey’s Christmas tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMSaturday, December 2, 2017
From Michael Haneke’s Happy End to Marilyn Manson’s latest tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMMatthew Bourne brings back his Blitz-set Cinderella, Arthur Pita presents The Little Match Girl with cartoon robots and there are Nutcrackers aplentyMore to see: Theatre | Carols and concert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12AMFriday, December 1, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonMarianela Nuñez and Natalia Osipova take turns playing one of classical dance’s most unconventional heroines, in the Royal Ballet’s opulent Arcadian fantasyWome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMSaturday, November 25, 2017
From Malian band Songhoy Blues to the Natural History Museum’s show about venomous beasts, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven da…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, November 24, 2017
Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as a ballerina hitting the big time. How realistic is the movie? We asked the cream of British ballet to give their verdictsBlack Swan, directed by Darren Ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, November 22, 2017
Coliseum, LondonIvan Putrov's male dance project can at times become a blur of homoerotic schmaltz, but at its best is very good indeedWhen Ivan Putrov launched his Men in Motion project two…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMSadler’s Wells, LondonInspired by the onstage intensity of Nina Simone, the centrepiece of this triple bill blurs real life and performance to spectacular effectWhat does it mean when danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, November 20, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonInspired by his Philadelphia childhood and the film Boyz N the Hood, Abraham’s vivid choreography evokes daily violence but also camaraderie and tendernessThe baske…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMSaturday, November 18, 2017
From wartime race drama Mudbound to Phil Collins’s UK tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMThursday, November 16, 2017
His political fury and upbeat moves make Kyle Abraham one of America’s most original choreographers. He talks about systemic racism, his wrecked home town of Pittsburgh, creating an Africa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AMMonday, November 13, 2017
Criticisms of the portrayal of rape in two recent Royal Ballet productions highlight a problem that is deeply embedded within the art formLove, grief, terror and desire: ballet can communica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMSaturday, November 11, 2017
From the Taylor Wessing photo prize to Hedda Gabler’s UK tour, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance in the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:33AMTuesday, November 7, 2017
Royal Opera House, LondonSarah Lamb and Steven McRae soar through Haydn’s symphony, Natalia Osipova is driven mad in Texas and a 20-strong cast prowl the stage in this mixed billIn 1973, w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMSunday, November 5, 2017
Sadler’s Wells, LondonA varied bill skipped from the gorgeous classicism of Michael Corder’s Le Baiser de la fée to the exotic carnival of dancing animals in David Bintley’s Still Lif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMSaturday, November 4, 2017
From the return of Bananarama to a new play by the writer of Doctor Foster, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMFriday, November 3, 2017
The Place, LondonThe dance duo’s latest work, Andante, subjects the audience to sensory overload as the smoke and smells create a distancing hazeIt is very rare to experience something def…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, November 2, 2017
She shook up the male world of modern dance in the 1970s and never slowed down. The US choreographer talks about fending off flak, videoing her entire career – and why you should never ask…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMSaturday, October 28, 2017
From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year show to Beowulf on stage, here is our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMThursday, October 26, 2017
Premiered just before the revolution, Parade was Les Ballets Russes’ most radical work. This dazzling update, with a robot politician and a silver wall-walker, captures its spirit – and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMWednesday, October 25, 2017
Royal Opera House, London A five-company tribute to Kenneth MacMillan continues with brave and brilliant stagings of two very different worksThis season’s Kenneth MacMillan celebration con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM 
