Lyric Hammersmith, LondonThe annual festival of new work saw the fruits of previous commissions from the likes of Salah El Brogy, Sally Marie and Dane HurstMonday saw the opening night of Ig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMThe Place, LondonAhn Sungsoo impresses with his gracefully balanced work for the Korea National Contemporary Dance CompanyThe Korea National Contemporary Dance Company was founded by the cou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMDrawn from a decade of the Manchester dance company’s work, this frustrating triple bill lacks focusCompany Chameleon was founded in 2007 by two graduates of the Northern School of Contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMSadler’s Wells, LondonCarlos Pons Guerra’s unflinching reimagining of Beauty and the Beast could hardly be more timelyIn the six years since he founded the UK-based DeNada Dance Theatre,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06AMBarbican, LondonViviana Durante revives early works by Kenneth MacMillan in a programme full of poignant insightsWhen the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan died in 1992, he left behind him mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMRoyal Opera House, London As vixen, coquette and victim, the Royal Ballet’s Francesca Hayward, Natalia Osipova and Marianela Nuñez all touch greatness in the coveted role of Kenneth MacMi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSadler’s Wells, LondonAntic fun abounds as poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy casts a peculiar spell on BalletLorent’s version of the Grimm fairytaleLiv Lorent founded BalletLorent 25 years a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBuilding 17, Woolwich Royal Arsenal, LondonThe audience engage directly with the dancers in an intense and intimate performanceIncreasingly, choreographers see themselves as initiators, as c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:59AMSadler’s Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonJoyous music and moves vie with the slow-motion final hours of a dying woman as Alain Platel ‘sees how far’ he can go. And Bernstein to the pow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00AMLaban theatre, LondonThe seriously impressive young Belgian choreographer concludes her Nietzschean trilogy with dance that’s stripped to the boneTara D’Arquian is a Belgian choreographe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMSadler’s Wells, LondonThe Canadian company takes traditional training to bold new places in works by director Emily Molnar, Crystal Pite and Sharon EyalWith the future of ballet very much …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFemmes, a triple bill for a Canadian ballet company, highlights the need for the art form to rethink its attitude towards womenLast week the Montreal-based Grands Ballets Canadiens announced…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:41AMWilton’s Music Hall; Hackney Showroom, LondonThe heart’s deepest desires are visited by Jonathan Goddard’s lean and savage thane and Sweetshop Revolutions’s celebration of sexual awa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMBattersea Arts Centre, Royal Opera House, LondonShakespeare’s lovers live on as a warring couple trapped in a romantic narrative, while a superb cast atone for a flawed Winter’s TaleLost…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsStories of the Windrush generation of Caribbean immigrants to Britain are movingly told by Phoenix Dance TheatreA great pyramid of packing cases and trunks aga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe Place, LondonPreoccupations with our fleeting existence loom large in a trio of new works at this year’s Resolution festivalNow in its 29th year, the Resolution dance festival staged b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Opera House, LondonThe Royal Ballet star is transcendent in the title role – with seven more principal ballerinas about to step into her shoes When Peter Wright mounted Giselle for t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMColiseum, LondonTamara Rojo and Ivan Vasiliev are superb as a painter and his cruel muse in a subversive ENB double billEnglish National Ballet, to borrow from TS Eliot, are much possessed b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal Albert Hall, LondonThe global circus troupe’s insect-themed extravaganza is technically astonishing but fails to engage on a deeper levelCirque du Soleil is an odd beast. At a time w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSadler’s Wells, LondonVisual magic outweighs occasional longueurs in this welcome revival of the choreographer/director’s wartime fairytaleMatthew Bourne’s latest revival of Cinderella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMUp and down the land this winter, Clara and the prince of her dreams will dance through a flurry of snowflakes to Tchaikovsky – and packed houses. So what makes this annual ballet fix…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMLilian Baylis Studio, Sadler’s Wells, LondonCorey Claire Annand bewitches as a freezing waif in Arthur Pita’s quirky, imaginative update of the Hans Christian Andersen classicTo 19th-cen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSadler's Wells, LondonThe challenge facing any choreographer of the Cinderella story is Prokofiev's score. Written during the second world war, it has a sombre undertow which lends its roman…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04PMBallet felt a little flatfooted as contemporary dance caught the shape-shifting spirit of our times• Observer critics’ reviews of the year in fullIn 2017, the best dance asked the hardes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMColiseum, LondonSergei Polunin’s intense three-part show, featuring Natalia Osipova and guests, is far from perfect but it resonates with an authentic emotional chargeSergei Polunin’s Sa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMThe Place, LondonAlpha males and new men collide in Charlotte Vincent’s witty study of what it means to be a 21st-century guyVincent Dance Theatre’s new work, Shut Down, is about me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMColiseum; Sadler’s Wells, LondonThe pick of male ballet talent struggle to shine on Ivan Putrov’s bare stage, but Kyle Abraham sends his dancers soaringMen in Motion, Ivan Putrov’s cel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMSex on crutches? It can only be the work of Canadian controversialist Marie ChouinardMarie Chouinard is a 55-year-old Canadian choreographer whose work is known for its sexually voyeuristic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSadler’s Wells, LondonSix dancers strip and grapple with abandon in this Bauschian take on intimacy. Then it’s time for audience participation…Meg Stuart is an American choreographer b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMRoyal Opera House, LondonThis mixed programme – including the latest new piece to include a rape scene – suggests the Royal Ballet’s commissioning policy needs a total overhaulThis Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48AMLaban theatre, LondonClinkard’s dancers often perform just inches from the audience in this unashamedly joyous workThere’s a deceptive simplicity to Theo Clinkard’s choreography. It’…
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