Saturday, April 27, 2013
Robin 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.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 20, 2013
Coliseum; Sadler's Wells, LondonEcstasy and Death is the first English National Ballet programme assembled by Tamara Rojo since she assumed the company's artistic directorship last year, and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, April 13, 2013
Royal Opera House; Coliseum, LondonIt's an ill wind that blows no one any good. So far, April has been marked by substitutions, injury and last-minute departures. At Covent Garden, Alina Coj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
Coliseum, LondonOn Thursday a great silence settled over London's dance world. For 10 days we'd been in the grip of Hurricane Natalia, and then suddenly she was gone and we were left dazedly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 30, 2013
Coliseum; Royal Opera House, LondonThe Mikhailovsky Ballet is St Petersburg's second classical dance company, and half the size of its grander sister, the Mariinsky. In 2007 the company hit …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 23, 2013
The Place, LondonBen Wright is a British choreographer whose work has been seen in the West End, at Glyndebourne and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He is also the founder and directo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, March 16, 2013
Sadler's Wells, LondonBalletBoyz is a title Michael Nunn and William Trevitt never much wanted. But it's stuck to them like glue ever since, in 1999, the two of them made a video diary for C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 9, 2013
Linbury Studio theatre, LondonLast month, Cassa Pancho, the founder and director of Ballet Black, went to Buckingham Palace to collect the MBE she'd been awarded in the New Year honours list…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 2, 2013
Barbican, LondonThe Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker formed her own dance company in 1994, since when it has performed worldwide, funded by the oil company Petrobas. Colker's productio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, January 26, 2013
Royal Opera House, LondonJohn Cranko's 1965 ballet Onegin, based on Alexander Pushkin's narrative poem, is a compelling but dramatically flawed work. The story tells of mousy Tatiana, who fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, January 19, 2013
The Place, LondonThe Place is currently holding its annual Resolution! season of new work. It opened on 8 January, and by 15 February the theatre will have presented 81 different pieces. Aud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, January 12, 2013
Old Vic Tunnels; Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe Young Vic's production of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner had its premiere at the Epidaurus festival in Greece last year. Coleridge's poem, whic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 29, 2012
Royal Opera House, LondonWhen Diaghilev's Ballets Russes first presented The Firebird (L'oiseau de feu) at the Paris Opera in 1910, it was hailed as a masterpiece. As an impresario, Diaghile…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 15, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonTchaikovsky's three great ballet scores were those he composed for The Nutcracker, Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty in the later years of the 19th century. In 1992, Ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
The Place, LondonThere's a sequence in Vincent Dance Theatre's Motherland that's repeated at intervals throughout the two-hour piece. Aurora Lubos enters with a bottle of blood-red dye, slop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
Sadler's Wells, LondonThe Gates of Hell, a monumental sculpture by Auguste Rodin, was commissioned in 1880. The work depicts a scene from Dante's Inferno, and its form was inspired by the br…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, October 13, 2012
Birmingham Hippodrome; Royal Opera House, LondonBoth of Britain's Royal Ballet companies have been dancing Swan Lake this month, and both have seen significant debuts. In Birmingham, Trinida…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
Peacock theatre, LondonGreat dance theatre doesn't come about by accident. It's born of constant experiment, reassessment and refinement. Some Like It Hip Hop was written, choreographed and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
The first mixed-race leads in Swan Lake say that skin colour is no barrier in British balletOn Friday 5 October, at the Birmingham Hippodrome, Céline Gittens and Tyrone Singleton of Birming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Linbury Studio, LondonHeadspace Dance is a company of just three members: Christopher Akrill, Charlotte Broom and Clemmie Sveaas. All are highly expressive performers with a strong reco…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 8, 2012
Southbank, LondonUnlimited Global Academy is an evening of work directed by the British visual artist Rachel Gadsden and born of the notion of "invisible trauma". Handicapped by spinal probl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 1, 2012
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, July 14, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Old Royal Naval College, LondonPlay Without Words was created by Matthew Bourne for the National Theatre's 2002 Transformation season, which set out to explore ways of attrac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 7, 2012
Royal Opera House, LondonIn presenting Birthday Offering, choreographed by Frederick Ashton in 1956 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company's foundation, the Royal Ballet is taking …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 30, 2012
North Wall Arts Centre, Oxford; Soho theatre, LondonLike a dead sun, the 70s still exert a huge gravitational force. It was a decade of extremes: of unprecedented hedonism and artistic freed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Ballet principal dancer Edward Watson and the artist Conrad Shawcross take on Titian – with a little help from a raw-steel goddessThere's a point in any experimental production when …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, June 23, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Barbican, LondonPina Bausch's dance cycle World Cities is one of the artistic centrepieces of the London 2012 festival. In collaboration with Sadler's Wells and the Barbican,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
The Place; Barbican theatre, LondonIn the programme for her new work, You May!, choreographer Zoi Dimitriou announces that she intends to explore the notion of a society "where the old parad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonViktor, created in 1986 by the German choreographer Pina Bausch, opened at Sadler's Wells last Wednesday. Inspired by Rome, it's the first of 10 piec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 26, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House, LondonMatthew Bourne's Early Adventures is a triple bill of the dance-maker's work, created between 1988 and 1991. Since then, Bourne's reworkings of balle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
Sadler's Wells; Royal Opera House; both LondonAngelin Preljocaj is one of the grands noms of French choreography. Of Albanian origin, he trained in classical ballet before turning to contemp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
