Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe English National Ballet's stars shine on a bigger stageLast Wednesday, English National Ballet opened its run of Romeo and Juliet with a commanding central perfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House, LondonAlastair Marriott's Connectome clothes a dated approach in scientific trappings, but Steven McRae shines in Ashton's Dream and Jerome Robbins provides light reliefFr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMLion & Unicorn Theatre, LondonHitler dancing with Cath Kidston? Meetings between unlikely couples add up to a night to rememberDaniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry are London-based freela…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSadler's Wells, LondonWhy is Rambert so generously rewarded when, as this quadruple bill illustrates, the company hasn't produced anything bold in years?What exactly is the function of Rambe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMRoyal Opera House, LondonJoy is hard to sustain when fate is fickle and Jack the Ripper is waiting in the wings in the Royal Ballet's triple billSerenade was first performed in 1934 at White…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMHippodrome, BirminghamConceptual deftness meets exhilarating dance-making in Crystal Pite's revelatory take on Shakespeare's last playIn the six years of its existence, International Dance F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTheatre Royal, Plymouth; Linbury theatre, Royal Opera House, London Matthew Bourne brings little savages indoors as Mayuri Boonham invokes Hindu deitiesLord of the Flies was originally set o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMCrescent theatre, BirminghamAn 'incandescent' Jenna Roberts in Alexander Whitley's whip-smart Kin steals the showIt's always impressive when a working company dancer choreographs a new balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMBoris Eifman's odd production at the Coliseum allows no nuance, although it is executed with panacheSiberian-born Boris Eifman is one of Russia's most popular choreographers. In 1977, aged 3…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFor Christopher Wheeldon and for British ballet, everything was hanging on his new full-length work The Winter's Tale. Happily, for the most part it's a ravishing successThere was a moment d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFor Christopher Wheeldon and for British ballet, everything was hanging on his new full-length work The Winter's Tale. Happily, for the most part it's a ravishing successThere was a moment d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMMikhailovsky theatre, St Petersburg; Barbican theatre, LondonThe starry Russian company gets to grips with Frederick Ashton. And English National Ballet marks the centenary of the first worl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMLondon ColiseumThe jewelled matrons were ecstatic, but this meeting of five hot ballet boys was sadly thin on choreographySergei Danilian is a New York-based impresario and agent who has mou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMA blazing triple bill at Sadler's Wells, and a triumphant debut by the teenage choreographer the Royal didn't wantLooking back at 20th-century modernist art, one is struck by the certainty i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMBB's new mixed programme at the Royal Opera House shows off the company's great strength and rangeCassa Pancho founded Ballet Black in 2001 to provide a showcase for classical dancers of bla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMJerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich; Bridewell theatre, LondonTerrific dancers grapple with the cliches in a frustrating exploration of ethnic stereotypingLuca Silvestrini, director of Protein, is o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMFrancesca Hayward and James Hay turn in a performance that crosses the years, writes Luke JenningsThere have long been arguments about the existence, or non-existence, of a definable Royal B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSoho theatre, London No amount of creativity can triumph over a story designed by committee in Probe's latest ventureProbe is a dance project launched a decade ago by Antonia Grove and Theo …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMQueen Elizabeth Hall; Coliseum, LondonCherkaoui trips over his textual metaphors while Putrov enlists Johnny Cash in a whirlwind tour of the male conditionContemporary dance has long sought …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House, LondonWith her extraordinary technique and unrivalled ability to convey raw emotion, Natalia Osipova astounds in a role she has made her ownDancing the title role in Gisel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMPurcell Room, LondonAn uncanny central performance is the making of this beautifully precise workAnimated dolls are always worrying. From Coppélia to Petrouchka, from Jessie in Toy Story to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMPlatform theatre, LondonPhia Ménard's 'wind play' mimed to a Debussy score is both visually enchanting and musically appropriateThe London international mime festival opened last week with …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMLeeds GrandPlot precludes passion in Northern Ballet's otherwise admirable retelling of the classic fairytaleDavid Nixon, artistic director of Northern Ballet, is one the most prolific chore…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House, London; Jerwood Dance House, IpswichThe perfect poise of Marianela Nuñez rounds off a dazzling Jewels. And the Little Match Girl is alive and well in IpswichJewels, creat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThere were dark days in Russia but plenty to write home about elsewhere, including a star defection from London to… LondonRead the Observer critics' reviews of the year in full hereA Russi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMColiseum, LondonAt the heart of English National Ballet's beautiful, confusing Nutcracker is the dazzling partnership between Daria Klimentova and Vadim MuntagirovWayne Eagling's production …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonJeyasingh's Darwinian contemplation on plant life is frantic with activityYou never know what to expect from Shobana Jeyasingh. Over the 25-year course of her cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSadler's Wells, LondonIt's technically superb, but is Mark Morris's work just too joyful?Great choreographers offer us visions of paradise. Sometimes these are celestial, as in Frederick Ash…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMBarbican; Bernie Grant Arts Centre, LondonMichael Clark is eclipsed by new talent at Cloud dance festivalIn the opening moments of Michael Clark's current, unnamed programme, Julie Cunningha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMStar dancer Alina Cojocaru on leaving the Royal Ballet for English National Ballet, the pleasures of touring and taking risks – and the one thing that would make life better right now…Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe abiding image of Royal Ballet's triple bill is of manhandled womenThe Human Seasons, David Dawson's new work for the Royal Ballet, is almost as demanding of its audience's attention as i…
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