Wednesday, 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 08:14AMMonday, March 12, 2012
The Place, LondonDuring the 14 years that Janet Smith has directed Scottish Dance Theatre, she's taken the company from a small, uncertain, provincial troupe to a major player on the British…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMWednesday, March 7, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonI can't remember the last time one of the NDT companies made me laugh out loud. During the three decades or so in which they were collectively dominated by the work of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMSunday, March 4, 2012
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonYou can tell from their clothes, that the dancers in this fantastically amiable and energetic street show have arrived from Paris. In contrast to the monochrome g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PMFriday, March 2, 2012
Royal Opera House, LondonBallet Black may have been founded as a platform for black and Asian classical dancers, but you have to love it, too, for the opportunities it gives to choreogr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:26PMThe opposing tensions in Sibley's dancing at a key moment in Ashton's The Dream are central to a defining performanceThere are individual moments in certain roles that are always key for me,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMSunday, February 26, 2012
The Place, LondonIt's the dance equivalent of a red-carpet event to get Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as choreographers on the same programme. And it says much for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
At a time when major questions are being asked about the role of publicly funded arts companies, can ENB balance box-office demands with the need to take creative risks?Wayne Eagling is to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMSunday, February 19, 2012
Clore Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonIn the mid 1970s, when British modern dance was barely a decade old, Jacky Lansley was part of pioneering generation for whom investigating the artform…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMThursday, February 16, 2012
Dancer Mark Morris doesn't miss a beat in his 1989 production of Dido and Aeneas – combining masculinity, femininity and musicality in one astonishing performanceDido and Aeneas is one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Riverside Studios, LondonLove flourishes in a cold, wet climate in Earthfall's adaptation, first seen in 2005, of Jamie O'Neill's novel At Swim, Two Boys. The original story concerns two you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMSunday, February 12, 2012
Who do I write for: dancers or audiences?A disturbing but fascinating precedent was set last June, when the New York magazine Village Voice "let go" of its distinguished critic Deborah Jowit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:25PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Marlowe, CanterburyDuring the first minutes of Alston's latest work, it takes a serious effort of will to focus on the dance. At the back of the stage are 19 boys from Canterbury Cathedral c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMThursday, February 9, 2012
The Print Room, LondonMost literary adaptations set choreographers the tough challenge of reducing a complex story to a danceable structure, but with Jealousy there's no such problem. Alain …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMMonday, February 6, 2012
A ballerina who accused La Scala of promoting anorexia has been sacked. There's more to this weighty issue than meets the eye, says Judith MackrellIn recent weeks, it seems that ballet has b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMSadler's Wells, LondonBy making Rodin's drawings and sculptures the starting point of his new work, Russell Maliphant has provided himself with the richest possible choreographic source. Rod…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PMThursday, January 26, 2012
The Ukranian prodigy's resignation has shocked the ballet world – but the clues were there that something wasn't right Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, November 13, 2011
The Place, LondonCaravaggio painted pictures of obsessive, luminous perfection, and lived a life of notorious excess: both visually and dramatically, the world of this 17th-century artist ou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMWednesday, November 9, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonLauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin have been spoken of as promising stage partners ever since they appeared together in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice. But while th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMFriday, November 4, 2011
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds"Who here feels morally superior to the Taliban?" asks a dancer, gazing at the audience as his body straightens out of a twisted, skewed arabesque.Lloyd N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMSunday, October 30, 2011
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 05:31PMWednesday, October 26, 2011
Peacock, LondonIf there was any doubt that hip-hop had finally grown out of the street and into the theatre, then Kate Prince's new production dispels it. Technically, Some Like It Hip …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonMichael Keegan-Dolan has choreographed strange and affecting narratives for his company, Fabulous Beast – but his latest production starts not with a story but with m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonBRB's current triple bill focuses on a short and peculiarly British moment in ballet history, a time when choreographers in London were creating work unlike any other d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Barbican, LondonLucinda Childs's DANCE was created 32 years ago, and watching its revival now is to see it as one of the blindingly seminal collaborations of its era. Childs, commissioning h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMFriday, October 14, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen Wang Yuanyuan was resident choreographer of the National Ballet of China, she earned her place in Chinese dance history through her work on the internationally suc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMThursday, October 13, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWhen Karole Armitage created Drastic Classicism back in 1981, she harnessed a new rock'n'roll energy for ballet. Guitarists and a drummer thrashed out brutal musi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:34AMMonday, October 10, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonThree of the Royal Ballet's most seminal choreographers combine in this current triple bill to offer three very contrasting perspectives on death and transfiguration…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMNow his troupe have performed in Britain for the last time, it seems the late choreographer's spirit is finally dispersing. Yet it's far from lostOn Saturday night a packed Barbican theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Barbican, LondonJohn Cage's score for Roaratorio (1983) comes with the subtitle An Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake. And the last time he and the Cunningham company performed this work in Brit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMThursday, October 6, 2011
Barbican, LondonIt was hard to watch the Cunningham company after Merce's death in 2009, knowing his benignly smiling figure would be absent from the curtain call. It's twice as hard now tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PM 
