Monday, March 25, 2013
One romantic, the other demonic – the two very different Giselles danced by Olesya Novikova and Natalia Osipova make for a fascinating up-close comparison Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMTuesday, March 19, 2013
The Place, LondonHow do we watch dance? How do we become engaged with what's on stage? Choreographer Ben Wright makes a bold stab at answering those questions, attempting a work that co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PMFriday, March 15, 2013
He might be a soloist with the Royal Ballet, but McRae has a dark secret: he's also a genius at tap-danceReading this on mobile? Please click here to view videoChristopher Wheeldon's Alice i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMWednesday, March 13, 2013
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 03:30PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Grand Theatre, LeedsStory ballets are the bread and butter of Northern Ballet's repertory, and it's easy to see why choreographer David Nixon was tempted by The Great Gatsby. The clothes, th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Linbury Studio theatreBallet Black may struggle against an inexplicable lack of state funding, yet it continues to make a heroic investment in new choreography. This season its adventurous p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMLinbury Studio theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Goodbye tutus and tights, hello dancing demons – Tamara Rojo now leads a company with a new look and feel, and the critics are wrong to complainWhen Tamara Rojo took over English National …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Sadler's Wells, London"I'm young. My ears hear promise, my eyes see dreams …" The opening words of Azusa Seyama's monologue set the tone for Vollmond (Full Moon), one of the last works ev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:00AMFriday, February 15, 2013
Bausch's riff on Bartók's murderous tale is a watershed moment – full of dark, poisonous themes that would increasingly obsess herWhen Pina Bausch died in 2009, no one knew whether her wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMSadler's WellsIf Oscars were awarded to dance actors, Dominique Mercy would surely have a shelf full of them by now. As an affable drunk with a leery wink and a lurching gait, a martyred spi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AMSunday, February 10, 2013
At 47, Sylvie Guillem continues to defy the rules of ballet – and gravity. She talks to Judith Mackrell about her new work, losing her temper – and her fight to save the world's fishI am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThursday, February 7, 2013
The Print Room, LondonHubert Essakow's multimedia dance work puts a new spin on immersive performance. Waterproof capes are handed out as we enter the tiny Print Room theatre, and by th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Barbican, LondonTatyana is by far the most absorbing work Deborah Colker has made – with one qualification: you have to know the plot of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, or at least pay for a prog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMFriday, January 25, 2013
He's never run a major company, and his chief claim to fame is Black Swan. Can Millepied cut it at one of the world's most famous dance troupes?The Paris Opera Ballet is only a Eurostar ride…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMLinbury Studio, LondonWriters have a thousand ways of portraying end-of-the-world angst: Shakespeare's Lear ranting into the storm; Beckett's Winnie, chatting blithely into the void. For dan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:40PMSunday, January 20, 2013
Watford Palace theatreBalletBoyz: The Talent started out as a project to offer new professional experiences to young male dancers. Over the last two years it has been a pleasure to watch the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMFriday, January 11, 2013
Coliseum, LondonWhen, in 1950, Alicia Markova founded what would become English National Ballet, she not only ran the company, but was also its lead ballerina. So there's nothing new in Tama…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMMonday, January 7, 2013
Rich with emotional subtleties, this apprentice ensemble launched by BalletBoyz Michael Nunn and William Trevitt bring energy and delicacy to the world of male dancingReading on a mobile? Wa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMSunday, January 6, 2013
At the tail end of the 1960s, four giants of the New York avant-garde fell under the spell of the great French artist Marcel Duchamp. The results caused shockwaves. In the runup to a new Bar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PMFriday, December 7, 2012
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 07:25PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Royal Opera House, LondonKenneth MacMillan's career-long mission to push ballet into new and often difficult terrain was reflected in the range of music he used and in the unpredictable stor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonGuilherme Botelho, choreographer and director of Alias, has admitted to being a "keen runner and a big fan of Charles Darwin", and it is clear that both enthusiasms hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Lilian Baylis TheatreYolande Yorke-Edgell runs her small modern dance company in a distinctly different style from the current mainstream. It is her own choreography that opens and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMWednesday, November 14, 2012
With his quicksilver fluency and remarkable range – from B-boy dance to balletic grace – the former So You Think You Can Dance runner-up deserves to win this timeLast week, the nominatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonPina Bausch's influence on contemporary dance theatre has always been a given. But in the wake of this summer's intensive Bausch season, we're more than usually attuned…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMSunday, November 11, 2012
The Place, LondonCharlotte Vincent's new work about physical and sexual politics revolves around the anxious, quizzical presence of a 12-year-old girl. As Leah Yeger observes the behaviour o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMFriday, November 9, 2012
Batsheva Ensemble: Deca Dance | Wayne McGregor: FARBatsheva Ensemble: Deca Dance, BirminghamBatsheva has become one of the world's most effective nurseries for new talent. For its UK debut t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThursday, October 18, 2012
Barbican, LondonDoes it matter that Michael Clark's latest work has no real title? Probably not, as his choreography tends to be one long work in progress. This latest piece, with music by S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMSunday, October 14, 2012
Platform, LondonOn one level, 50 Acts is Wendy Houstoun's personal contribution to the voice of grumpy middle-age. From the frustrations of an unreliable memory to the aggravation of a world…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:34AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
From its work with film star Emily Blunt to its super-wealthy founder, few contemporary dance companies enjoy more success than New York's Cedar Lake or attract more controversy Continue re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM 
