Friday, May 6, 2011
Dutch National Ballet: Hans van Manen – Master Of Dance, LondonHans van Manen still ranks as the signature choreographer of Dutch National Ballet, with some 120 ballets to his name, and th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThursday, May 5, 2011
Royal Opera House, LondonManon is having yet another run at the Opera House, and I'm beginning to feel about it the way I do about MacMillan's other box office standard, Romeo and Juliet. It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMSunday, May 1, 2011
Marine Theatre, Lyme RegisFriday may have universally been branded Kate and Wills day, but it was also Unesco World Day of Dance 2011. And down at the Lyme Regis Fossil festival, in among th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMFriday, April 29, 2011
Breakin' Convention '11, LondonThe Wells' three-day hip-hop festival has become an annual fixture in the dance calendar, and this year's lineup boasts its usual, international mix of virtuos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMTuesday, April 26, 2011
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonWhen the 12 members of Groupe Acrobatique de Tanger first come on stage, you get no sense of their extraordinary skills. Dressed in baggy tracksuits, their b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:43PMFriday, April 22, 2011
Rites: Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, LondonAs dance in cinemas goes 3D in a big way, with Wim Wenders's Pina on release this week and the Mariinsky's Giselle recently screened in UK cinem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSunday, April 17, 2011
Last week, Scottish Ballet opened its brand-new adaptation of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, choreographed by Ashley Page: a surreal, psychedelic journey into the book, which explores its…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMFriday, April 15, 2011
With punter-friendly favourites, revived masterpieces and daring collaborations, the artistic director's final season looks likely to be a classicThe Royal Ballet's next season is the last t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08AMThursday, April 14, 2011
Coliseum, LondonLondon loves Diaghilev. During the 29 years in which the great impresario ran the Ballets Russes, few cities offered him a warmer, more dependable welcome. A century on, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMWednesday, April 13, 2011
Theatre Royal, GlasgowWinter 2010 saw four Cinderella ballets touring the UK, but spring 2011 is all about Alice. Just six weeks after the Royal premiered Christopher Wheeldon's Alice, Scott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:01PMFriday, April 8, 2011
The Place, LondonEvery critic knows what it's like to be sitting in a theatre, completely at odds with the mood. But I've rarely felt that disconnect as acutely as at this year's Place Prize…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:56PMThursday, April 7, 2011
The Place, LondonEveryone knows what it's like to be sitting in a theatre, at odds with the general mood. But I've rarely felt that disconnect as acutely as at this year's Place Prize. At ea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMWednesday, April 6, 2011
New Wimbledon theatre, LondonA change of stage can do surprising things to choreography. Two of the works in the Richard Alston Dance Company's current tour were created for closeup vie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, April 5, 2011
From spiky, surreal cabaret to an exhilarating Royal Ballet triple bill, Judith Mackrell picks the highlights of the seasonScottish Ballet: Alice The second Alice ballet to hit the stage in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMFriday, April 1, 2011
Selected cinemasSuddenly 3D is everywhere, a shiny new toy for filming dance. In Pina, Wim Wenders's imminent documentary about the work of Pina Bausch, the technology justifies itself in sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:45PMThursday, March 24, 2011
Coliseum, LondonGeorge Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. "Ballet is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. But this week in London, it's the male dancers who…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, March 23, 2011
Black Swan has nothing on the scandal-hit Russian ballet company and its long and bloody historyTwo months ago the Critics' Circle bestowed three of its annual dance awards on the Bolshoi ba…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00PMTuesday, March 22, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonIt may have been Tchaikovsky who inspired the Pet Shop Boys to attempt their first ballet score, but the music they've written for The Most Incredible Thing is not even…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:29PMBBC 4's documentary about ENB has been compelling viewing, but didn't dig deep enough into the questions troubling ballet – and ballet dancersWhen a BBC TV crew moved into English National…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSunday, March 20, 2011
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet has had Suite en Blanc in its repertory for nearly 50 years, and yet by some odd act of omission it hasn't performed this treasure of a work …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:31PMFriday, March 18, 2011
Phoenix Dance Theatre, On tourA company that started out as a few aspiring male dancers from Leeds now celebrates 30 years of near-continuous stage life. Despite having undergone several rad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMThis year's 'achievement in dance' award managed to pass without a single dancer being honoured. Why does dance put up with playing the Cinderella among art forms?Do prizes matter? After the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PMFriday, March 11, 2011
Pet Shop Boys & Javier De Frutos: The Most Incredible Thing, LondonNeil Tennant and Chris Lowe have released 10 albums, collaborated with artists as varied as Derek Jarman and Sam Taylor-Woo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMWednesday, March 9, 2011
Pet Shop Boys and dance maverick Javier de Frutos have turned a Hans Christian Andersen story into a ballet. How did the moon landings end up in there?Javier de Frutos and Neil Tennant are o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMLinbury Studio TheatreHenri Oguike has always been brave in his musical choices, but with one of his latest works, Butterfly Dreaming, he displays a streak of wildness.Tan Dun's score, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMFriday, March 4, 2011
Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo, On tourThe wonderful Trocks are back on UK soil – taking their inimitable brand of classicism, camp and comedy on a nationwide tour. As always, their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMWednesday, March 2, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Centaur and the Animal may not be an ideal way for the horsier elements of the British public to get their first introduction to Bartabas and his equestrian theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMMonday, February 28, 2011
Royal Opera HouseChristopher Wheeldon must have had moments when he identified strongly with the heroine of his latest work, given the chatter surrounding its creation. Alice is the first fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50PMSunday, February 27, 2011
Grand, LeedsAnyone trying to put a version of Cleopatra on stage has the shadow of Shakespeare to contend with. Antony and Cleopatra still ranks as theatre's most extravagantly poetic lovers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMFriday, February 25, 2011
Northern Ballet Theatre: CleopatraFor choreographers of story ballets, finding that all-important accessible title or familiar score is a constant challenge. David Nixon has, in recent yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMThursday, February 24, 2011
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe idea of turning 60 brought William Forsythe a small but shocking recognition of his own mortality. Yet the work he choreographed in response was neither powere…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:19PM 
