The 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMBarbican, LondonRichard Alston embraces Benjamin Britten's formal vision at a costIn Greek myth Phaedra is the wife of Theseus, who falls in love with her stepson, Hippolytus, and when he re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02PMSadler's Wells, LondonHofesh Shechter's trademark interplay of politics and humour steers too close to whimsy in this lively new workHofesh Shechter's new work, Sun, kicks off with a typical…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMFrom Bande à part to Little Miss Sunshine, Observer dance critic Luke Jennings picks his favourite dance numbers in filmsLuke Jennings
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMMilton Keynes theatreWith Le Corsaire – and its new star dancer – Tamara Rojo delivers in style for English National BalletLe Corsaire is the first full-length ballet commissioned by Tam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSadler's Wells, LondonA thrilling new full-length work from Wayne McGregor shares his awe at the nature of the universe and humanity's place in itIn a recent essay in the American magazine N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMRoyal Ballet, LondonCarlos Acosta's new production of the problematic ballet is flawed, but fixable. And besides, it's a lot of funOn the face of it, the decision by the Royal Ballet to comm…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTobacco Factory, BristolMark Bruce's deliciously droll adaptation of Dracula is a must-seeTranslating fiction into dance is dangerous. Cliched set pieces, plots shorn of nuance, naff pe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMThe pioneering Canadian choreographer talks about the challenge of reinventing story-led dance for modern audiencesThere's a new spirit abroad in choreography. It offers us beauty and exhila…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMPeacock theatre, LondonJasmin Vardimon's murder mystery is hampered by extraneous characters, bad sound and too much conceptual fogJasmin Vardimon is a fine observer of the minutiae of human…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMThe Lion and Unicorn, LondonA festival of small-scale works presents a mixed bag in an unlikely venueThe GOlive dance and performance festival is the brainchild of George Sallis, director of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSadler's Wells, LondonThis sharp-edged revival of the tale of New York gangs is a joyOn the opening night of West Side Story in 1957, US supreme court justice Felix Frankfurter collared…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMQueen Elizabeth Hall, LondonKate Prince's hip-hop Wizard of Oz set in a school blighted by government cuts is fast and fluent funThe concept behind ZooNation's hip-hop show Groove On Down th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMRoyal Opera House, LondonThe dream team of Vasiliev and Osipova take this Soviet-era curio to new heightsIn the 1930s, the Soviet authorities commissioned a handful of choreographers to crea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House, LondonOlga Smirnova, the Bolshoi's newest star, is truly dazzlingJewels was created for New York City Ballet in 1967 by Balanchine, and was inspired by the choreographer's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMColiseum, LondonRoland Petit's Coppélia opened in London last week, danced by Moscow's Stanislavsky Ballet and starring Sergei Polunin. It's not a good production. The original work, create…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMColiseum, LondonThe Boston Ballet have not visited London for 30 years, and a palpable excitement preceded the company's arrival last week. The company was founded in 1964, with the choreogr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe Place, LondonWhen I was a dancer, I hated auditions where you had to sing. I only did a few, but even now, thinking about the long walk on to the stage, the bored pianist, and the half-d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSadler's WellsThere's no exhilaration quite like that of a Forsythe Company evening. American choreographer William Forsythe is a visionary whose work demands serious engagement, and can nev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Albert Hall, LondonEnglish National Ballet's Swan Lake in the round had its premiere in 1997. Choreographed by Derek Deane, then director of the company, it has been seen by more than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMQueen Elizabeth Hall; Rich Mix; Royal Opera House, LondonThe choreographer approaching The Rite of Spring is like the surfer approaching a giant wave. He, or she, risks obliteration – by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Opera House; Sadler's Wells, LondonWhen the choreographer Wayne McGregor and the novelist Audrey Niffenegger decided to collaborate on "a new fairytale" for the Royal Ballet, it was a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMLinbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonWitch-hunt is a narrative ballet created by British choreographer Cathy Marston for Bern Ballett, the Swiss company she has directed since 2007. Mars…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMAbbey theatre, DublinThe Dublin dance festival was launched in 2002, since when it has gone from strength to strength. Last week the 2013 festival opened with Stravinsky Evening, a double bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMLinbury Studio, Royal Opera House, LondonFor the subject of his first full-evening ballet, Liam Scarlett takes the Brothers Grimm fairytale Hansel and Gretel, about two children imprisoned b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMConnaught, Worthing; Royal Opera House, LondonPhoenix dance theatre is on a high. With new purpose-built premises in Leeds, and a charismatic director in Sharon Watson, the 10-strong ensembl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMWant to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling…As a nation we are well supplied with choreographers. Matthew Bourne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFrom a sociopolitical sensation to an explorer of the tensions of motherhood, here are four women taking steps to upstage Britain's old boys' network• Why does the dance world keep creativ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMWant to be a ballerina? No problem. But any girl dreaming of a career in choreography had better mind the glass ceiling Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFrom a sociopolitical sensation to an explorer of the tensions of motherhood, here are four women taking steps to upstage Britain's old boys' network• Why does the dance world keep creativ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMRobin Howard Dance Theatre; Royal Opera House, LondonLast week, the four finalists for the 2013 Place prize for choreography showed their work on the stage of the Robin Howard Dance Theatre.…
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