Thursday, 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 01:27PMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Linbury Studio, LondonJérôme Bel is a choreographer dedicated to turning the concepts of dance and performance inside out. He's created works that are more like art installations than danc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMThursday, September 29, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonPurcell's Dido & Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus & Eurydice must be the most choreographed operas in the repertory. Their buoyant, punchy baroque rhythms, and the simple arc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PMJudith Mackrell chooses her favourite videos of legendary choreographer Lucinda Childs – from her collaborations with Philip Glass to a tribute to the great Merce CunninghamThis Einstein o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54AMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Dance legend Lucinda Childs was going nowhere – until an avant-garde opera about a famous physicist shot her to success. As the work returns, Judith Mackrell tracks her downNew York is in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMFriday, September 23, 2011
Dance critic Judith Mackrell goes on the catwalk with the Royal Ballet at their one-off London fashion week showJudith Mackrell
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:07AMThursday, September 22, 2011
Linbury studio theatre, LondonFew works of literature describe movement in such hallucinatory detail as The Metamorphosis, with its portrayal of Gregor Samsa's absurd, harrowing transformati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMWednesday, September 21, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonChoreographer Balanchine was famously inspired by the window display of Fifth Avenue jewellers Van Cleef and Arpels when he created his full-length ballet Jewels. An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PMFriday, September 16, 2011
Curve, LeicesterDESH is Bengali for homeland, and in Akram Khan's latest solo the choreographer returns to the world of his Bangladeshi roots, in search of the stories and characters of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:51PMThursday, September 15, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThere's a strong collective spirit in the Brazilian company Grupo Corpo, which has been run for 36 years by members of one family, the Pederneiras clan. Yet the name it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:55PMWednesday, August 31, 2011
St George's West, EdinburghIt's Carmel's 80th birthday – but as she finds herself being feted by a surprise party, her immediate reaction is panic and dismay. Only after a pause can she ad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMMonday, August 29, 2011
King's theatre, EdinburghSouth Asian dance is thriving in Britain, yet most of the work grabbing the limelight tends to be some form of contemporary fusion: classical Indian dance mixed with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:20PMSunday, August 28, 2011
Edinburgh PlayhouseIt's an obvious truth that abstract dance is never really abstract. When men and women are dancing on stage, there is always human behaviour involved. The way they listen …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMFriday, August 26, 2011
Shen Wei Dance Arts: Re-Triptych, EdinburghChinese choreographer Shen Wei is based in New York but he still derives inspiration from his Asian background, and in this three-part work he char…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMFriday, August 19, 2011
The Nrityagram Dance Ensemble: SriyahNrityagram, meaning dance village, is India's first residential school of classical dance, and its performing ensemble is fast emerging as one of the gre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMThursday, August 18, 2011
Zoo Southside, EdinburghMixed media events can often feel like less than the sum of their parts. But in Forgetting Natasha, dance, poetry and film integrate with unusually economic force to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMMonday, August 15, 2011
Edinburgh Festival theatreThe world's ballet companies may seem increasingly interchangeable in repertory and style, but National Ballet of China's Peony Pavilion stands out as a captiv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMFriday, August 12, 2011
Eun-Me Ahn Company: Princess BariEun-Me Ahn is one of the most vital forces on the South Korean dance scene, her choreography fusing traditional languages like the dance theatre form pansori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMWednesday, August 10, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonTo reduce Anna Karenina to a two-act ballet is a tough call, and Alexei Ratmansky's version (seen in the UK for the first time this week) is an intellectual and visu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, August 5, 2011
A Conversation With Carmel; Forgetting Natasha, EdinburghTwo of the Edinburgh fringe's most interesting pieces of dance-theatre have elderly women at their heart. In Barrowland Ballet's A Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMRoyal Opera House, LondonUliana Lopatkina opened the Mariinsky season as an exquisite but emotionally inaccessible Odette. Making her first entrance in Jerome Robbins's In the Night, she's a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, August 4, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mariinsky's Don Quixote looks every one of its 100-plus years: its jokes ancient, its gestures creaky, its contours sagging. But the right dancers can still galv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, August 2, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonTowards the end of its brief but stellar life, Diaghilev's Ballets Russes had become a European project, its repertory and designs dominated by western influences. I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMFriday, July 29, 2011
Edinburgh FringeDance on the fringe is getting stronger, and even if it can't begin to rival the range of theatre and comedy on show, this year's programme has some rich pickings. Opening in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, July 26, 2011
Royal Opera HouseWhen does a living treasure turn into a museum piece? It's a question at the heart of ballet, and especially at the heart of the Mariinsky's Swan Lake. I've always loved thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:29PMFriday, July 22, 2011
Mariinsky Ballet, LondonThis giant St Petersburg company returns to London for a three-week season that includes some UK premieres , welcome repeats and a packed roster of stars. It opens wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMColiseum, LondonRoland Petit, who died just over a week ago, was fabled as the man who brought sex, style and bohemian-chic to the post-war ballet stage. But he should also be commemorated a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PMFriday, July 15, 2011
Boy Blue Entertainment: Touch, LondonAcclaimed street dance company Boy Blue Entertainment is used to impressing its public on a large scale, with its theatre shows Pied Piper and Over The E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMWednesday, July 13, 2011
Coliseum, LondonSir Frederick Ashton's Romeo and Juliet may be danced to the same Prokofiev score as Sir Kenneth MacMillan's, but beyond that the two versions are completely different. While…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:50PMFrom a show inspired by zero gravity to a troupe making work in the world's most polluted city, this Italian festival shows an urgent new side to Russian danceItaly may have struggled to est…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSunday, July 10, 2011
Ethan Stiefel is a giant of US ballet. He tells Judith Mackrell why he's leaving the bustling Big Apple for a place with 4m people and 70m sheepThe capital of New Zealand was once thought of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:46PM 
