Tuesday, 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 12:04PMMonday, October 1, 2012
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 01:13PMSunday, September 16, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonSan Francisco Ballet are one of the world's most generous and resourceful promoters of new work. But by opening their (long overdue) UK season with a classic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40AMSunday, August 19, 2012
PlayhouseAnd Then, One Thousand Years of Peace is a huge, ambitious monolith of a work. First created by Angelin Preljocaj for the Bolshoi Ballet in 2010, it takes inspiration from the visio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Assembly HallBritain has apparently become a nation of dancers, or at least a nation addicted to TV dance shows. The finale of this short, entertaining production sees the entire audience ge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Dance companies have embraced social media like few others arts organisations – and even the founder of Twitter is a ballet fan. Judith Mackrell visits San Francisco Ballet to find out wha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMThursday, July 26, 2012
Purcell Room, LondonLearning a craft depends on skills passed down through the bodies and memories of others – and at first sight, this Cambodian circus show is simply an innocent celebrat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:38AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Lean, linear and unashamedly sexy, with a gaze like a 'young Joan Crawford' ... Watch the Royal Ballet's outgoing director, who joined as a dancer in 1958, in actionReading this on a mobile?…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, July 15, 2012
Royal Opera HouseThe second half of Monica Mason's tenure as director of the Royal Ballet has been invigorated by a rare concentration of ballet making, with no less than seven choreographer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMSadler's Wells, LondonWhen Play Without Words was premiered back in 2002, it raised British dance theatre to a new pitch of sophistication. A study of sex and class in early 1960s London, it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMonday, July 9, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Pina Bausch world tour has steamed into its final destination, Hungary; and out of all the travelogue works we've seen, Wiesenland is surely the one most likely to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59PMSunday, July 8, 2012
With London audiences having had an unprecedented chance to see 10 of her pieces side-by-side, Pina Bausch's surreal, seductive world has divided opinion. I found the journey revelatory – …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMThursday, July 5, 2012
Peacock, LondonBallet schools are turning out gifted hopefuls in numbers that far exceed the professional opportunities that await them. And it's the idea of giving some of them a temporary …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMTuesday, July 3, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonA mangy dog sniffs its way over piles of rubbish and broken stones, until finally it finds its dinner, laid out on a plate, complete with linen tablecloth and cutl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMWednesday, June 27, 2012
The 'homeboy of rhythm tap' may have more in common with his dapper predecessor than first meets the eyeDance on YouTube tantalises us with the promise of figuring out exactly how dancers do…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMSunday, June 24, 2012
Europe's churches have inspired a new dance piece by Shobana Jeyasingh. Judith Mackrell meets her on the first stop of her tour in Venice, and looks at how architecture is inspiring choreogr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMThursday, June 21, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn Der Fensterputzer (The Window-Washer), World Cities 2012 moves on to Hong Kong – the beguiling, absurd and sometimes achingly beautiful vision of the city that Bau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Theatre Royal, GlasgowThe concept is irresistibly 2012. Three major UK companies – Scottish Ballet, National Dance Company of Wales and English National Ballet – unite for a triple bill …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:21PMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonPina Bausch travelled a long way during the 23 years in which she created her World Cities series: Viktor, the first of the series, was inspired by Rome; the last, Como…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMThursday, June 7, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonWorld Cities, London's new month-long season of Pina Bausch travelogue productions – created in response to various locations worldwide from 1986 onwards – opens w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMSadler's Wells, LondonWorld Cities, London's new month-long season of Pina Bausch travelogue productions – created in response to various locations worldwide from 1986 onwards – opens w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AMWednesday, June 6, 2012
For all the varied styles explored by the great choreographer, whose work is the subject of a new month-long series of productions, certain big themes remained constant"Where does all the ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:53PMMonday, June 4, 2012
Hammersmith Apollo, LondonAbout 15 minutes into this collaboration between English National Ballet and Flawless, a love duet between two of the cast holds out the promise of a larger collect…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:44AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Gatz, LondonJust as one stage adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal cult novel finishes, another appears. However, Gatz lasts eight hours in four parts. Quite something for such a slim …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
Choreographer Gauri Sharma Tripathi tells Judith Mackrell how the worlds of classic and modern Indian dance collide in Wah! Wah! Girls, a Bollywood musical set in London's East EndJudith Mac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonIn the late 1980s, most young choreographers were addressing the rigours of minimalism or the politics of dance theatre. Matthew Bourne, however, was already a mav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMFriday, May 11, 2012
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Brighton DomeThere are few more depressing experiences than having a theatre empty around you; even more so when the work on stage is something you love. Trisha Brown's choreography is witty…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMFriday, April 27, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonA Streetcar that comes without the hot, humid music of Tennessee Williams's language may sound like a lost cause. But in Scottish Ballet's new version, created by chore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
He did a totalitarian Romeo and Juliet and turned Casanova into a VD nightmare. Now choreographer Angelin Preljocaj has given Snow White a dominatrix for a stepmother Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Coliseum, LondonBoris Eifman is very clear that Tolstoy is only the starting point of his 2005 version of Anna Karenina. The choreographer has edited out the subplots and most of the Russian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM 
