Monday, January 25, 2016
Kay’s 5 Soldiers and Pite’s Polaris are among the shows recognised in a strong year for women at the NDAs, but the distinctly white winners’ list doesn’t accurately represent the Bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:45AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Bolshoi Ballet: The Taming Of The Shrew | Sadler’s Wells SampledJean-Christophe Maillot’s production of the Shakespeare comedy – being broadcast from Russia to cinemas across the UK �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMThursday, January 21, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Royal’s revival of Rhapsody turns from pretty to thrilling, while Two Pigeons takes off in playful, touching styleThere are sections of Rhapsody that are as br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMFriday, January 15, 2016
BalletLORENT: Snow White | Mr WonderfulChoreographer Liv Lorent joins forces with poet Carol Ann Duffy for the second of their clever, and illuminating fairytale collaborations. For Snow Whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMColiseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMWednesday, January 13, 2016
Roundhouse, LondonWith this arresting take on an episode from the Mahabharata, Khan creates an epic theatrical space and a battlegroundThe Mahabharata has been a kind of artistic home to Akr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMMonday, January 11, 2016
Linbury Studio, LondonZenaida Yanowsky rises to the title role and Carlos Acosta brings wit to his last classical role at the Royal Opera House in a tapestry of dance, music and textAs a cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMFriday, January 8, 2016
Le Patin Libre: Vertical | Akram Khan: Until The LionsThis joyous contemporary ice-dance crew from Canada were the surprise hit of Dance Umbrella 2014, the year the festival moved to the ice…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AMMonday, January 4, 2016
A new film probes the shocking assault on Sergei Filin, ballet director at Russia’s historic company, and sheds light on a toxic story of rivalry and state meddlingFrom 2013 to 2014, a sma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:13AMSaturday, January 2, 2016
Sadlers Wells, LondonMatthew Bourne has already branded his imagination on two of the great Tchaikovsky ballets, reinventing a dark, Dickensian Nutcracker and a feral Swan Lake. But in tackl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20PMResolution | ElizabethNow in its 27th season, the Place’s Resolution festival – an open platform that embraces new works – has become a key fixture in the British dance year. More than…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:07AMFriday, December 18, 2015
The Snowman | Saint Petersburg Classic BalletRaymond Briggs’s tale of a snowman who comes to life and befriends a small boy was adapted for the stage by Bill Alexander in 1993. It is now a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMWednesday, December 16, 2015
Wayne McGregor distilled the essence of Virginia Woolf while others tackled Milton and Samuel Beckett, and the beauty of maturity found champions in Alessandra Ferri and Sylvie GuillemThe ex…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:58AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Royal Opera House, LondonFrancesca Hayward is superb as Clara, bringing acting skills to match the gorgeous elegance of her dancing at the heart of a very fine productionClara is the most in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:51AMMonday, December 14, 2015
In 1961, on tour in Paris, the Kirov Ballet’s star made a historic dash from his KGB bodyguards into the arms of French police. But was there more to his defection than meets the eye? A BB…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMFriday, December 11, 2015
The Nutcracker | The Little Match GirlLev Ivanov’s 1892 ballet wasn’t widely admired when it was premiered in Russia, but it is now in the repertory of almost every classical company in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMThursday, December 10, 2015
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 07:51AMWednesday, December 9, 2015
Coliseum, LondonThe Cuban star’s entertaining valedictory showcase demonstrates perfectly why he will be much missed in balletCarlos Acosta’s last performances with the Royal Ballet were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMSaturday, December 5, 2015
If your festive season isn’t complete without The Nutcracker or another classic ballet, you will find something perfect hereIt’s pointless trying to pretend that Christmas dance isn’t …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48AMFriday, December 4, 2015
Sadler's Wells, LondonSasha Waltz has orchestrated some of the most extraordinary spectacles on the modern dance stage: the giant fish tank that housed her floating, spinning dancers in Dido…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31PMScottish Ballet: Cinderella | Carlos Acosta, A Classical SelectionChristopher Hampson choreographed Cinderella for the Royal New Zealand Ballet in 2007; now his work gets its first European …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonThe singer makes a major contribution to a show inspired by her album of Welsh folk music, part of the bold dance company’s mixed programmeWhat a cheerleader Ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:09AMSunday, November 29, 2015
Lilian Baylis Studio, LondonThe flawed batch of new works brings out chameleon talents and by the end you’re curious about what they’ll do nextEleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMFriday, November 27, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, LondonConceal | Reveal features Spiral Pass, one of Maliphant’s finest, most beautiful works, but elsewhere the ensemble’s chemistry is lostFor two decades, Michael Hul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMFriday, November 20, 2015
Rolmoe & Juliet | Nora Invites…Rudolf Nureyev choreographed Romeo And Juliet for English National Ballet (ENB) back in 1977, when the company was still known as London Festival Ballet.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMThursday, November 19, 2015
Royal Opera House, London Vadim Muntagirov and Lauren Cuthbertson dance a sparky revival of The Two Pigeons, while Monotones expands magically beyond ballet’s minimal meansFrederick Ashton…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, November 18, 2015
Linbury Studio, LondonWild, muscular dance meets deft use of Maori music in Javier De Frutos’s joyful yet complex work for RNZB – whose intensity is hard to matchI wish the world had mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Royal Ballet: Monotones I and II & The Two Pigeons | Christian Rizzo: D’Apres Une Histoire VraieFrederick Ashton was a 20th-century English romantic, a choreographer who was inclined t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Linbury studio, London The Leeds-based company marks 35 years with a triple bill kicking off with Caroline Finn’s Bloom, a creepily beguiling cabaret of odditiesNext year, as Phoenix celeb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, November 6, 2015
Sasha Waltz & Guests: Sacre | Cardiff Dance FestivalGermany’s Sasha Waltz choreographed her version of Rite Of Spring in Berlin in 2013, 100 years after Stravinsky debuted his radical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMThursday, November 5, 2015
An upcoming programme featuring a world premiere with the stellar duo, plus new pieces from Crystal Pite and Javier De Frutos, is proof that the dance house is on a roll under Alistair Spald…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PM 
