Friday, September 4, 2015
English National Ballet: Lest We Forget | Northern Ballet: 1984ENB’s new partnership with Sadler’s Wells allows it to use the Wells as a platform for its more experimental programming. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMMonday, August 31, 2015
The Three Dancers is widely seen as a painting full of hate and violence, inspired by the shootings and suicide that befell a trio of Picasso’s friends. But is it also about the artist’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMFriday, August 28, 2015
National Youth Dance Company | Dance at the FringeAnyone expecting the cute or the amateur will get a pleasant shock from Apex Rising, a new festival showcasing the range of NYDC’s dancers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMTuesday, August 25, 2015
Choreographer Christian Spuck is aiming to develop dancers who can think as well as they move. At the Edinburgh festival his Swiss company present a new Wayne McGregor ballet and Sonett, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMMonday, August 24, 2015
Assembly Hall, EdinburghKorean choreographer Lee Insoo creates a kaleidoscope of movement from a single ideaOn the overcrowded platform of the fringe, any dance event has to take its chances…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMAt the Edinburgh fringe, both Vera Tussing’s T-Dance and Igor and Moreno’s Idiot-Syncrasy explore what it means to move and to be movedWhen I first started reviewing dance at Edinburgh, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMFriday, August 21, 2015
Edinburgh PlayhouseMartin Schläpfer’s choreography in this dramatic and picaresque production is classical yet modern, with a strong visual impactThere’s a passage in EM Forster’s How…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMDance Base, Edinburgh Kally Lloyd-Jones’s new work is an impeccably researched and beautifully performed homage to the grace – and downfall – of Vaslav NijinskyThe story of Vaslav Niji…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:27AMBallett Zürich | Dance at the fringeChristian Spuck is one of the most interesting theatrical voices in European ballet, displaying a distinctive combination of modern and classical style. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:27AMThursday, August 20, 2015
Festival theatre, EdinburghFlamenco choreographer Israel Galván’s angry, charismatic work pays tribute to the Gypsy victims of the NazisAmong the incalculable horrors of the Holocaust, on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Zoo, EdinburghComic-book heroes fight terrifically but are stumped by moral complexity in PanicLab’s entertaining new workIn an age of anxiety we want to believe in heroes, political ones …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:01AMFriday, August 14, 2015
Seven | Lo Real/Le Réel/The RealLike many of flamenco’s greatest performers, Israel Galván was born to dancing parents. But while he was trained in the classical traditions of flam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMMonday, August 10, 2015
Dancer with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company who combined masculine power with emotional delicacyThe timing and circumstances of Jonathan Ollivier’s death could hardly have been m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:50PMFriday, August 7, 2015
Balé de Rua: Baila Brazil | Dance at the FringeThis showcase of Brazilian street dance and music originated in a modest community project, designed to introduce theatre skills to the impove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMThursday, August 6, 2015
Coliseum, LondonIt might not be obvious source material, but Li Cunxin manages to coax a precise and robust performance from the Queensland BalletLa Sylphide is far from being the obvious ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AMFriday, July 31, 2015
La Sylphide | Dance at the FringeUnder the direction of former Chinese star Li Cunxin, the Queensland Ballet has become one of Australia’s leading classical companies. This summer, it make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMThursday, July 30, 2015
Forced into ballet as a child in Mao’s China, Li Cunxin defected to the US and had to work as a stockbroker to support his family back home. But he never quit dancing. As he brings the Que…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42AMTuesday, July 28, 2015
Ardhowen theatre, Enniskillen Beckett’s cast of lost souls astonish with dramatic expression in this visionary homage Back in 1981, when Maguy Marin was a young and unknown choreographer, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:57PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Cubania | Fringe At The PlaceAs Carlos Acosta prepares for his final season as a principal with the Royal Ballet before channelling his talents into more contemporary dance and theatre, this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMTuesday, July 21, 2015
Sadler’s Wells, LondonMatthew Bourne’s slick repair shop staging of Bizet’s Carmen is full of sexual charisma and violent passionJust as classical dancers aspire to the big dramatic ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMSunday, July 19, 2015
Lauren Cuthbertson fought to ballet's front rank – and kept her sense of humour. Now she's dancing one of its most challenging roles: ManonThere's a story often told about Lauren Cuthberts…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44AMFriday, July 17, 2015
Ballet Folklórico De México | New Art ClubDance is one of the key ways in which any country celebrates and sustains its own history, and in the 63 years since Amalia Hernández found…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:09AMThursday, July 16, 2015
The ‘nervous adrenaline’ of working with Matthew Bourne isn’t challenge enough for the poster-boy principal of the American Ballet Theatre. The Brazilian dancer drives his own transfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Old Granada Studios, ManchesterA collage of stories, transplanted from New York to Manchester, deal with racism, violence and injustice in a combustible performanceThe Guardian is the festiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMSunday, July 12, 2015
Israel Galván is the dance maverick who has reinvented flamenco, pitching it into dark, experimental territory. Will Lo Real, his work about the Holocaust, cause as much outrage at the Edin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40PMFriday, July 10, 2015
Linbury Studio, LondonBallet stars Wendy Whelan and Edward Watson partner up for an adventurous set by contemporary choreographers built on their formidably committed skillsWendy Whelan and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMArdani 25 Dance Gala | Matthew Bourne’s The Car ManBallet dancers are, as a profession, becoming more restless, seeking out new repertory opportunities outside their home companies. This n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:16AMThursday, July 9, 2015
Coliseum, LondonThere’s no fairy godmother, but Christopher Wheeldon’s recasting of the rags-to-riches story as a fable about love and nature is magical and beautifully dancedOne of Chri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMSunday, July 5, 2015
Their bodies hurt, the roles are drying up and everyone’s comparing them with their younger selves. So how do ballerinas maintain their careers after hitting 40? Wendy Whelan (48) and Ales…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PMOpera House, ManchesterChoreographer Wayne McGregor and artist Olafur Eliasson adapt Jonathan Safran Foer’s book Tree of Codes into a superficially spectacular multimedia event for the Man…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, July 3, 2015
Dutch National Ballet: Cinderella | Whelan/Watson: Other StoriesSergei Prokofiev’s ballet score has been choreographed dozens of times since it was composed in 1935. In this version, creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AM 
